About Me.
I bring a lifetime of inner exploration to the counselling work followed with years of training and experience. I have a full active practice in Bristol, where I blend everything I have learnt to be available to you, whatever you might need. I love my work and am always learning and stretching what is possible. I work in an embodied immediate way as well as the more classic inner exploration of history and attachment.
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I specialise in our inner relationship, character structure, attachment and developmental trauma, sexual abuse, bereavement, existential and spiritual crisis, the inner relationship with ourselves, chronic and acute human difficulties and anxieties. Other issues include relationships, low self esteem, lack, post-traumatic stress, dissociative disorder, non sexual abuse, physical and mental health, spirituality, anger, stress, depression, work issues, climate related grief, societal collapse and anxiety.
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My own journey began in my early 20’s with an unravelling of my world view and coping strategies, uncovering what was not working in my life. A Jungian therapist helped me put myself back together, enabling me to gain new perspectives, integrate and grow aspects of myself. I have since explored and found many ways of working with my own inner world with different forms of therapy, insight practices, embodied processing, Focusing and yers of reflection, which now inform my approach to counselling.
Re-Vision Counselling training was experiential and profound. Based in Jungian, Psychosynthesis and developmental disciplines it taught me a depth of work around unconscious patterning, brain development, attachment theory and the importance of the greater than self, the transpersonal.
Education
2014 - 2017
Diploma Integrative Transpersonal Counselling
Re-Vision, London. Accredited BACP and UKCP
Re-Vision is an established & innovative centre for training in counselling and psychotherapy accredited by the BACP and the UKCP. The theoretical approach integrates concepts from Jungian, Gestalt, relational, psychodynamic, neuroscience, body psychotherapy and family systems theory as well as developmental and archetypal psychology. Combining a spiritual perspective with down-to-earth high quality therapeutic skills.
2020 - 2021
Wild Therapy Training
Embodied Relational Therapy
Wild Therapy from an embodied perspective with Jayne Johnson and Leonie Guest. Exploring the inner and outer relationship with our environment, leaning into nature as a partner in insight, healing and integration.
2018 - 2019
Group Therapy Training
Embodied Relational Therapy
A year long experiential training uncovering the process of group work through being consciously in it. A learning process expanding to encompass group energies and dynamics, bearing challenge, conflict, connection, vulnerability, shame and all that can arise.
2012 - 2017
Focusing Practitioner Training
British Focusing Association
After initial focusing training learning the basics I leant children or Dynamic Focusing, Whole Body Focusing, Treasure maps with parallels to IFS and then trained as a practitioner to work 1:1with clients. In collaboration with Helen Bower and Pernille Finnegan we went on to create and teach Relational Focusing.
2003 - 2006
Mindfulness Training
Breathworks and Vidyamala Burch
Mindfulness training building on years of my own Insight meditation practice and extended silent retreats, exploring psychological and spiritual practices. Teaching groups of people with pain and stress awareness and kindness in Bristol.
1984 - 2013
Trainings
Registered nurse training moving into Palliative care diploma and practice.
Chaplaincy training with Buddhist healthcare trust and hospital palliative care chaplaincy.
Dementia studies and care of parents.
Basic teaching training for nursing work and lectures in pain management.
Before this came plumbing electrics and tiling.....