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I started my working career nursing in a major London hospital where I gained insight into how stressful situations, be this acute or chronic periods of illness, life threatening and terminal illness such as cancer, addiction and trauma can affect a person and their family and friends.
Having also worked in the corporate and entertainment industries, I have an understanding of the stresses inherent in both environments. And whilst bringing up a family, as a mother, I continued to nurse the disabled and the terminally ill.
I re-trained after my children left school and am now an experienced Person-Centred counsellor, an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and on the United Kingdom Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
I run a Private Practice from my home in Cheshire and I have had many years experience working as Counsellor and Clinical Lead in a Substance Misuse Agency, providing drug and alcohol counselling, for misusers and anyone affected by someone else’s use at all levels of society. .
I have worked as a counsellor in a G.P’s surgery in West London, a Day Care Hospice and in the Lynda Jackson Macmillan Centre, at Mount Vernon Hospital in Middlesex, offering support to patients, families and friends living with cancer or a life-threatening illness.
I work with both individuals and couples and I am a qualified supervisor offering supervision both in the agencies and privately, to individuals and groups.
My philosophy is based upon that of Carl Rogers, pioneer of the Person-Centred Approach. I share his belief in the actualising tendency, the innate capacity of every individual to grow and develop.
I feel my life’s experiences have equipped me with an empathic understanding, which I aim to bring to my counselling work...
