About Me

My background is in Mental Health Nursing. I have over 30 years’ experience working with clients with mild to severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

I have vast experience in containing distress and making sense of people’s lives.

 My nursing background has given me valuable insights and an in-depth understanding from which I am able to draw and inform my counselling practice. 

I am passionate about mental health and helping people to overcome difficulty and find their potential to create the lives they desire. 

My vision:

Is to help you to relieve distress and to transform personal challenges into life enhancing opportunities.

My mission:

Is to guide and facilitate an educational and therapeutic experience to help you to:

· Improve self-awareness.

· Strengthen resilience.

. Develop a clearer understanding of problems, patterns and issues.

· Become empowered to move forward.

Registered Level 1 Mental Health Nurse from 1989 to present.

Counsellor at Mosaic II in Bradford. 

Working with people who have been affected directly or indirectly by childhood sexual abuse.

Counsellor at Accrington Women’s Centre. 

Working with bereavement, relationship difficulties, domestic abuse, anxiety and depression.

I attend regular training as part of my continuous personal development and I receive monthly supervision.

I hold a current enhanced disclosure and barring certificate and I am fully insured.

I accept referrals from GP’s, organisations and Employee Assistance Programmes.

· DipHE Therapeutic Counselling. 

  (BACP Accredited Course). 

  Leeds Beckett University, 2016.

· NCFE Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills Craven College, Skipton, 2014.

· K260 Death Dying & Bereavement. 

  Open University, 1993.

· Registered Level 1 Mental Health Nurse

  (RMN), 1989.

I am a Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) Accredited Register

My work is guided by the BACP 

Ethical framework for the counselling professions 

 Putting client wellbeing first.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/ethics/

For more information about the BACP

https://www.bacp.co.uk/

· Neurodiversity Awareness Training, 2024.

· ADHD & Neurodiversity in the Counselling Room, 2023.

· Grief and Loss Training, 

  Bradford Bereavement Support, 2020.

· Autism Awareness, 

  Bradford District Care Trust, 2020.

· Anxiety it’s Time to Go (NLP) Workshop,

  2020.     

· Domestic Abuse Awareness Training, 2017.

· Issues Surrounding Sexual Abuse Training,

  2014.