About Me and How I Work

I am a qualified counsellor and member of The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - the professional association for members of the counselling professions in the UK.

I work integratively and relationally. I see the counselling relationship itself as central to healing and draw together the most helpful aspects of the different counselling theories. I am happy to discuss the way I work further with you when we meet.

I also bring a sociological awareness to my work. Many difficulties don’t arise in isolation — they are influenced by wider factors such as gender, identity, class, culture, or inequality. Counselling can help you make sense of not only your inner world, but also the social pressures that shape it.

Prior to working as a counsellor, I worked as a Social Researcher for over 20 years, most of that time was spent at the University of Surrey both within the Department of Sociology and in the Post-graduate Medical School. My role was as a qualitative researcher, working on projects funded by ESRC, NIHR , government bodies, charities and local government, exploring peoples’ lived experiences of issues including; recovering from injury; recovering from heart attack, leukaemia or time spent in ICU; homelessness and vulnerability; people who have experienced bereavement because of a road traffic collision and perceptions of rape and sexual assault.

PhD: Negotiating post injury life: Patients’ experiences of recovering from injury