Therapeutic approaches
My approach is integrative. Rather than fitting you to a single method, I shape the work around you.
Integrative counselling is built on the idea that no single therapeutic model works for everyone. Each person brings a different history, a different way of making sense of the world, and different needs from the counselling space. By training across several approaches, I can offer something genuinely tailored rather than asking you to fit a predetermined format.
The foundation of my practice is person-centred: the relationship between counsellor and client is central, and you are the expert on your own life. Within that, I draw on other approaches depending on what’s most useful.
Approaches I draw on
Person-centred
Warmth, genuine understanding and unconditional positive regard — the foundation of everything I do.
Psychodynamic
Exploring how past experiences and unconscious patterns shape present difficulties.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Identifying and challenging thought patterns that maintain anxiety, low mood and unhelpful behaviour.
Learn more →Solution-Focused
Focusing on strengths and what’s already working, to build practical steps forward.
Motivational Interviewing
Supporting people to find and strengthen their own motivation for change.
Systemic & attachment-based
Working with relationship patterns and attachment, adapted for couples seen together.
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling — Leeds University
- Diploma in Supervision — Leeds Centre for Psychological Development
- Diploma in Couple Counselling — Counselling Works
- CBT for Depression & Anxiety — Psychotherapy UK & Counselling Works
- Diploma in Hypnotherapy — Academy of Clinical & Medical Hypnosis
- Counselling Certificate — Barnsley College
Further specialist training
- Sexualised Trauma & Rape Investigation — STAR / West Yorkshire Police
- Child Abuse, Neglect & Protection — BMBC & STAR
- Gambling Addiction — GamCare
- Parental Substance Use & Families — BMBC
- Adolescent Clients & Mental Health — STAR
- Domestic Violence & Safeguarding — BMBC & NHS
- Conflict Resolution & Diversity — NHS
- Housing, Asylum Seekers & Refugees Support — NHS
- Welfare Benefits Training — CPAG Scotland
- Citizens Advice Bureau Training — Barnsley & Leeds CAB
Wondering what would suit you?
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