Qualifications, Experience, and Me!Diploma in Counselling
Member of British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Areas of specialism with other agencies:
Loneliness, despair and suicide
Alcohol abuse
Domestic abuse
Life threatening/terminal illness
Areas of experience
Domestic abuse; Loss and change;
Relationships, couples and individuals;
Stress in life and work;
Panic attacks and Anxiety; Trauma;
Depression; Terminal illness and bereavement;
Redundancy; and Alcohol abuse.
About me
I came to counselling late in life following many years in local government. A moment in my life brought about my own loss and change, but opened a door and a new direction.
I am a mature male, with a lifetime’s experience of working with and relating to others. My counselling skills are built on 50 years of life experience, being husband and father, working with people, and having respect for others. I am an integrative person, and combine life experience, knowledge, and reflection, to develop a rounded view of life and human experience.
My personal approach
I am an integrative counsellor and at my core is respect for you and what you are dealing with. It is an important part of my counselling work, it is me in the room, establishing a relationship with you. I am an optimist, and believe strongly that a small change is always possible, and the smallest change can lead to bigger ones.
I use a person centred approach to understand your perspective of who you are and how your life is. I use psychodynamics to understand your past, as often we are today, the result of what happened in the past. I use cbt to understand your thoughts, and how you process them.
I work with your words, your body language and the faces you pull. I listen for the times you make allowances for others but not for yourself. I work with the emotions in the room, and while they can hurt, be raw, be aggressive, they are always human. They are the things we have in common.