About me

My counselling orientation is Humanistic/Systematic Eclecticism.

I have found this approach which is tailored to meet individual client requirements, offers the advantages of being both flexible and brief, appropriate to the needs of the client. Brevity however should never be at the cost of the relationship between counsellor and client. The importance of establishing a good working rapport between client and counsellor cannot be overestimated.

The theory underpinning Eclecticism suggests that most clients in counselling present with a variety of specific problems. For the counselling intervention to be effective the therapist needs to employ a wide, yet focussed range of specific approaches. A therapist who wishes to be effective with a wide range of problems and different personalities has to be flexible, versatile and technically eclectic.

Eclecticism implies using many techniques drawn from different sources without also adhering to the theories or disciplines from which they originate. The basic pragmatic question here is:

"What works for whom and under which particular circumstances"? (Lazarus 89).

In very broad terms I borrow the `best' techniques and ideas from a variety of sources. The resulting models however should not be haphazard but systematic.

The bulk of my clients at present are referred though EAP (Employee Assistance Programs) as well as various Occupational Health Departments, GP Practices, other counsellors and clinics.

Professional Affiliations:

I am an Accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and a Registered member of UKRC.

Other organisations of which I am a member:

• Association for Counselling at Work
• Association for Humanistic Psychology.
• Member PMA (Professional Mediators Association)

My Professional Qualifications include:

• Masters Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Qualified Practitioner Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - Relationship Practitioner.
• Post-Trauma Stress and Critical Incident Debriefing
• Qualified FE Lecturer in Counselling Theory and Practice
• Certificate in Drugs Awareness and Counselling
Diploma in Performance Coaching
• Certificate in Life Coaching
• Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Diploma in Professional Development
• Attendance Certificate Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy with Sexual Minority Clients
• Certificate of attendance in the Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy - 4-day course.
• TRiM - Trauma Risk Model
• Psychological First Aid (Trauma Response Model)
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)