I am an accredited member of BACP, and hold accredited membership of National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC).  I am a trained Groupwork Practitioner. I work with BUPA and a number of Employee Assistance providers.As a counsellor, I offer clients a confidential, professional, reliable and ethically sound service so they have a safe place to talk about whatever is troubling them. I can provide counselling on a short or long term basis. I work with individuals, couples, families and groups.Making a decision to come for counselling is the first step on a path to understanding more about yourself, your past and present relationships and to resolve difficulties in your life.We will identify and agree your aims from counselling, and work at your pace, providing time and space to talk openly about issues, explore feelings and thoughts as individuals and in relationships with others and consider how past experiences and current behaviour may be connected. In other words, to understand what might drive you to do what you do and feel what you feel and why. Gaining such insight and understanding can be key in finding a  calmer and more fulfilled sense of self. Of course your goals from counselling can change over time, that is fine, and we can work with whatever you bring into our time together.The duration of counselling depends on what you want to explore and achieve from counselling. In my experience, you will know when the work of therapy is complete. You can attend as few or as many sessions as they wish, there is no other commitment. Some clients prefer to work with an open-ended contract, and others prefer to work to a fixed number of sessions, followed by a review to agree that the work is complete or to continue further. In all cases, we regularly review our work together. This helps us to assess whether your needs are being met and if required to adjust the process and/or establish new focus for our work together.