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About Me:
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believe that when we know ourselves more fully we don’t have to get
stuck in a particular way of behaving or being. We have choices about
how we respond and react and can find our own unique self-expression. | | |
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sessions with me offer you the opportunity to explore your personality
– celebrating what you like about yourself, as well as acknowledging
what you are not so happy with. | | |
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| Facing what we would prefer to deny
or ignore in ourselves can be liberating. We can discover hidden
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| Qualifications: |
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 MBACP (Accred) |
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am an Accredited member of the BACP – The British Association for
Counselling & Psychotherapy. I adhere to BACP’s Ethical
Framework
for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy which includes clear
information on professional conduct and a complaints procedure. | | |
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| PG Dip Counselling |
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have a postgraduate diploma in Psychosynthesis counselling from the
Psychosynthesis & Education Trust, London SE1. Psychosynthesis
is
transpersonal counselling that belongs in the humanistic field of
therapy. I view each client as whole, individual and unique person – I
am not just seeing the issue(s) they bring to counselling. My aim is to
enable each client to develop their own self awareness, have choice and
find purpose and potential. | | |
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| Diploma in Supervision |
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in supervision from Pam Nell Associates, Kent . | | |
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Certificate in Counselling Children & Adolescents | | |
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certificate in counselling children and adolescents from the University
of Kent. | | |
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Certificate in CBT Skills | | |
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Certificate in CBT Skills (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) from WPF
Therapy, London SE1. | | |
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I currently see private clients in
central Rye, East Sussex.
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| General
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I
have years of experience counselling adults, children and young people
in a variety or settings – private practice, NHS, primary and secondary
schools, agencies and charitable organisations. I set up and managed a
pilot school counselling service in a London-based secondary school and
have worked as a bereavement counsellor.
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| Universal stuff! |
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On my life’s journey so far many
things have caught my attention. I share here some things I have
found poignant and inspiring - they may be of interest and relevance
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“Everyone,
at some time in their life, must choose whether to stay with a
ready-made world that may be safe but which is also limiting, or to
push forward, often past the frontiers of common sense, into a
personal place, unknown and untried.”
“Once
you can talk about what troubles you, you are some way towards
handling it…..And when you have found your voice, you can be
heard.”
“…not
all dark places need light, I have to remember that”.
"I seemed to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line". | | |
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All
of the four above quotes are from Oranges are not the Only Fruit,
Jeanette Winterson, 2001, Vintage, London
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“I
want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and
not shrink back”
a
line from ‘The invitation’ by Oriah, 1999, HarperOne, San
Fransisco
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"I’m
lost between two shores
I’ve
got an emptiness deep inside, I’ve tried but it won’t let me go
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am lost and I can’t even say why"
from
the song “I am I Said” by Neil Diamond
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“He
who has a why to live can bear with almost any how” – Nietzsche
Victor
Frankl, Austrian psychotherapist ‘Man’s search for meaning’,
2004, Rider London
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“….of
all the emotions attached to pain, anger is the one least spoken of.
Loneliness, yes. Remorse, yes. But white fury? It came in a flash,
when I wasn’t expecting it……” “The anger throbbed in my
belly as if it were breathing”.
From
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, by Rachel Joyce, 2014,
Transworld, London
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"I
decided to walk, because walking can be a way of working out the
anger and pain, one step at a time, passing it through your feet to
the road beneath, leaving each load behind.”….”Added to which
it gave me longer before I had to face anyone”
Under
An Angry Sky by Penny Bill, 2012, Enbrook Publishing, Kent | | |
Patient:
“Doctor Doctor it hurts when I do this”
Doctor:
“So don’t do it!”
Tommy
Cooper
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“We
are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of
those who love us”
The
Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse, 2010, Orion, London
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