I am an experienced, BACP Accredited, Person Centred Counsellor based at Brighton’s Seven Dials and Burgess Hill. I have been counselling for twelve years and have experience working in organisational settings as well as in private practice. I have experience of counselling at Mind, at a community counselling service, a service for non-abusing parents of sexually abused children and at a performing arts school. In non counselling roles I have worked in Higher Education and in a Psychiatric Hospital. I have been counselling in private practice for the last six years. I am also a Focusing teacher and run a Skills Certificate in Focusing in Brighton.
My approach to supervision
As a Person Centred therapist my approach to supervision is to work with you in a supportive and collaborative way, providing a safe space for you to explore and grow. I want to empower you to connect with your capacity and potential, and to trust your own sense of right ways for you to practice. I have a long standing commitment to Person Centred values and as such I believe that it is not my place to act as an expert in relation to you or your client. I will seek to understand how your client work is from your point of view.
I would invite you to use the relational space within our supervision: How might meeting as two humans, open to the other’s humanness, enrich our supervision time and our work with clients? I am interested in genuine human connection and am open to being affected by and learning from my supervisees also. I am keen to work with issues around how diversity affects our work: How might differences in age, ethnicity, gender identity, ability, sexuality affect the work and the relationship between counsellor and client, supervisor and supervisee? It is important to me to strive to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
My Focusing practice is a big part of my life. During supervision I may invite you to listen to any subtle body senses you have that may contain information about your work with clients, your feelings and needs. In order to connect with ourselves, our supervision needs and our inner knowing about a right course of action it may be helpful to pause or slow down, to get a sense of the grounded body and its resources.
I may have reduced fee slots available, please ask if you are in need of this. If you’re interested or have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me via the 'Contact me' page.
My approach to supervision
As a Person Centred therapist my approach to supervision is to work with you in a supportive and collaborative way, providing a safe space for you to explore and grow. I want to empower you to connect with your capacity and potential, and to trust your own sense of right ways for you to practice. I have a long standing commitment to Person Centred values and as such I believe that it is not my place to act as an expert in relation to you or your client. I will seek to understand how your client work is from your point of view.
I would invite you to use the relational space within our supervision: How might meeting as two humans, open to the other’s humanness, enrich our supervision time and our work with clients? I am interested in genuine human connection and am open to being affected by and learning from my supervisees also. I am keen to work with issues around how diversity affects our work: How might differences in age, ethnicity, gender identity, ability, sexuality affect the work and the relationship between counsellor and client, supervisor and supervisee? It is important to me to strive to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
My Focusing practice is a big part of my life. During supervision I may invite you to listen to any subtle body senses you have that may contain information about your work with clients, your feelings and needs. In order to connect with ourselves, our supervision needs and our inner knowing about a right course of action it may be helpful to pause or slow down, to get a sense of the grounded body and its resources.
I may have reduced fee slots available, please ask if you are in need of this. If you’re interested or have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me via the 'Contact me' page.
