The Samaritans are holding a fundraising day on Friday 3 February 2012 and I will be donating £5 from
every session on that day and from each initial consultation from 30 January to 3 February.
Please call 07854 724502 for more information or click the email link above.

Counselling, Psychotherapy and Counselling Supervision: Rochester, Kent and Central London

Welcome to my website and I hope you find what you are looking for here. I am a qualified and registered counsellor/psychotherapist offering counselling,
psychotherapy and supervision in Rochester, Kent (covering north Kent, from
Dartford to Medway areas) and central London.



I began training as a therapist 20 years ago, as a result of entering therapy myself in
my late 30s, which was of phenomenal help with overcoming my depression
and anxiety, and with helping me find ways of fulfilling my potential and
living the life I wanted.


How therapy can help
From time to time any of us can feel overwhelmed by our problems, and feel powerless to do anything about them, and we don't like to impose too much on family and friends. Counselling and psychotherapy provide a space for you to have the full attention of someone who will try to understand you and your problems. This space enables you to be open about your feelings and experiences, and to understand yourself better, and find ways of dealing with problems as they arise and the uncertainty they bring (uncertainty being an inherent part of life). Counselling and psychotherapy can also help you find ways of developing and maintaining compassion towards yourself and others.

My ethos is that emotional problems and crises are opportunities for learning and growth, rather than something to be avoided or eliminated, and that, through being really listened to and accepted by your counsellor/psychotherapist, you can find ways to:

gain a greater sense of your real self

be more relaxed and creative in managing your problems

increase your personal well-being

increase your sense of meaning and purpose

release the ties of the past

reduce anxieties about the future.

Counselling and psychotherapy provide confidential, non-judgemental and impartial support for you to work through your issues. The following list shows issues most commonly brought to me for help:

relationship difficulties

anxiety, stress, panic, phobias, procrastination

dwelling on the past and/or worrying overly about the future

anger that is out of control, and feeling that no-one cares

difficulty in accepting yourself, and trusting your own judgement and instincts

lacking direction and feeling that life is meaningless

feeling blocked, unable to be creative and not fulfilling your potential

loss, of people close to you, or internal loss of energy and joy.

I am a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist, registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP, www.ukcp.org.uk), and I have been practising for more than 15 years, and I currently work with individual adult clients.


I am also a qualified Supervisor of psychotherapists/counsellors, qualified and in training. My goal is the well-being and safety of clients as well as therapists, and I aim to work in the best interests of the client, whilst supporting the counsellor/psychotherapist in their work, and helping them to develop their own identity as a practitioner. As an integrative practitioner, I make use of theories from humanistic, transpersonal, psychodynamic, transactional analysis, existential and cognitive approaches. My interests include transference/counter-transference issues, unconscious and parallel processes, the use of metaphor and symbolism, as well as creative techniques.


In addition, I offer help with essay writing for student counsellors/psychotherapists, from getting started to editing and proof-reading, as well as workshops on creative therapeutic writing - please see my page on Inner World Writing.


More information and appointments
Please contact me on 07854 724502, or 0208 854 4074, or click the email link above, if you would like more information or to book a session for counselling, psychotherapy, counselling supervision, etc, in central London, or Rochester/Medway area in Kent.