training

I have completed an intensive three year professional training at The Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling where I
graduated with the diploma in "Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy in the Community". I also have an honours degree
awarded by the University of Reading.

My training is in Psychodynamic counselling which is a therapeutic approach which helps the client bring to the surface
difficult feelings, so that they can be experienced in a safe, contained environment.

Psychodynamic Counselling uses the basic assumption that everyone has an unconscious mind and that feelings held in the
unconscious are often too painful to be faced. Thus we come up with defences to protect us from knowing about those painful feelings
which can result in anxiety, depression and other distressing modes of being.

Often these defences were put in place to protect us from emotional pain when we were younger and now they are no longer serving
their purpose and are causing more harm than good. The therapy helps to unravel and so reduce their power over our current lives.
When we are aware of how we are acting we are able to take more control over our lives and start to change maladaptive behaviour.

I abide by the Code of Ethics and Practice issued by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy of which I am a member.
I am professionally supervised by a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who is a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.