how can I help?

  • I counsel individuals, couples and families.
  • I listen, I don’t take sides and I offer new ways of looking at the issues affecting your personal life and relationships.
  • It’s not my job to judge or tell you what to do.  It is my job, however, to give you the skills to communicate better.
  • Good counselling is about giving you the tools to make the changes you need, so life becomes enjoyable again.
  • I regularly see individual clients with anxiety and depression.  I support you to explore your issues at home or at work.
  • I work with couples whose relationship is in crisis.  You may not know whether to work on your relationship or to separate.  There may have been an affair, or you are just drifting apart.
  • Many of my clients are only communicating when angry or distressed.  I offer a safe place for you to talk, to say the difficult things, to express emotion safely.
  • I counsel parents and specialise in family work.  New mums and dads struggle with the demands of a baby. Separation, divorce and contact issues for the non-resident parent can cause frustration and distress.
  • I frequently work with teenagers  and have experience of the pressures exams, relationships, eating disorders, bullying, learning to get on with step-brothers and sisters, put on a young person and on the family.
  • I counsel couples where illness, including long-term conditions like diabetes and MS, is changing their relationship; we look at how the couple can understand and support each other better.
  • Many clients are stressed  in the workplace.  Redundancy and unemployment affect relationships at home, and we often take out our worries on our families.  Counselling offers a neutral space to find the reasons for anger and conflict.