Specialisms and interests

Some of the areas I have worked in include:

• Abuse and trauma (sexual and physical);

• Adolescents (have experience of working with teenagers 13+);

• AIDS and HIV;

• Anxiety and stress;

• Asperger's syndrome;

• Bereavement and loss;

• Body image;

• Career planning;

• Chronic illness and medical conditions;

• Couple and relationship counselling;

• Cross-cultural issues;

• Family dynamics; 

• Psychosomatic illness;

• PTSD;

• Refugees and asylum seekers;

• Sexual dysfunction;

• Sexual identity and orientation.

Experience 

Volunteer Counsellor at PACE, 1992-1987 and again from 2004; member of PACE private register since 1993; member of Association of Chiron Therapists and practitioner at Chiron Clinic since 1999; member of Pink Therapy Directory of Therapists since 2003 and am also on the register of therapists at Freedom Health. 

In private practice since 1993; couple and crisis counselling; ex-group facilitator at London Lighthouse; facilitator and deviser of gay men’s residential workshops for ECC. Counsellor for the Uganda AIDS Action Fund 2004-2006.

Qualifications

Diploma in Humanistic Counselling and Supervision (1993); Certificate in Body Psychotherapy (1999); Diploma in Body Psychotherapy and UKCP accreditation (2006).