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Currently available on weekday evenings and Friday afternoons in-person or online.

I am an Integrative Counsellor and Coach working both in-person in Buckhurst Hill, Essex and online. I hold a Postgraduate Diploma and am completing my MSc in Integrative Counselling and Coaching. 

As a counsellor, I prioritise building a strong empathetic working partnership with clients, developing a safe, non-judgmental space where clients feel free to talk through their experiences, and explore their thoughts and feelings while working towards inner harmony.

In addition, clients with particular goals or aspirations draw upon my coaching skills to work on strategies to enable them to achieve and sustain the personal transformation they are looking for.

Prior to counselling, my professional background was in primary and further education, and more recently in the charity sector where I have held educational and community development leadership roles. Having lived and worked in 5 different countries on 3 different continents, my professional and personal background reflects an open mind, a love of diversity and multi-culturalism, as well as a strong desire to develop and empower people to achieve their potential.

My priority is establishing a safe space where clients feel able to speak freely and be listened to, heard and understood without judgement. 

I listen, first of all, to what the client brings to counselling; where they are in their life, what they would like to explore, how they are feeling and where they would like to get to.

As an integrative counsellor and coach, I combine different approaches; person-centred, existential, cognitive behavioural (CBT) and psychodynamic within a framework called Personal Consultancy to help you to gain fresh perspective of where you are in your life and how you see the world. This new understanding can help towards emotional and behavioural change, however we would then work on strategies and actions that to enable lasting change to your inner and outer worlds. 

There is no agenda except the one set by you. We can work on the material you bring each week at a pace that feels right for you or on longer term goals that you may identify.

I can offer short or long term counselling, depending on your goals.

Prior to our first session, we would have a free 20 minute phonecall which is a chance for me to understand the kind of support you are looking for and to explain the way that I work, and you the chance to ask me any questions you may have. After that, you can decide if you would like to book a first session for which normal charges would apply.