Fees & Charges
£50 Individuals 50 minutes
£55 Couples 60 mins
£65 Couples 75 mins
£75 Couples 90 mins
£55 Supervision offered 60 mins
Sliding scale with discussion, and some low-cost places available
Residents' Parking Zone: some permits available and pay and display £1 for an hour
Access:
Car parking available, Ground Floor Room But No Wheelchair Access, Skype Video Counselling, Telephone Counselling.
My clients
Gender & Sexual Minorities Experienced:
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Cross Dresser/Transvestite
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Kink/BDSM (all gender/sexualities)
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Age ranges:
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Relationship Styles:
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Friend and Family members
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About me
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I am a fully qualified experienced Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (UKCP registered) working face-to-face in private practice in Bristol BS3. I do video skype anywhere in the world. I offer phone counselling within the UK.
How I started out !!!
I worked in 1989 for 8 years with HIV/AIDS with the Aled Richards Trust (which then became Terrence Higgins Trust) and in Social Services in the HIV project team as a support worker from 1989-1995 and then set up privately.
Over the last 25 years I have worked in depth with LGBTIQ,(GSRD) clients with a wide variey of isuues, family members, partners and friends.
I also work with people with life treatening illnesses and their partners/friends and families.
I am available to explore any of the following
- couple work
- transgender issues
- people who are questioning and/or transitioning
- possible regrets of transitioning
- monogamy and non-monogamy
- polyamory
- all genders/sexualities parenting
- donor parenting
- kink and BDSM
- cross-dressing, transvestite experience
- asexuality
- non-binary and binary gender expression
- affairs ( finding a way forward as a result of the trauma)
- HIV/AIDS
- adoption
- coming out
- sex workers
I also work with heterosexual couples, individuals and family members, some of which has been finding ways to explore and work with their feelings towards LGBTQ issues in which their lives are affected.
In all my work we explore together to find a way forward. This could involve partners, and other family or non-family members, coming to sessions
I work from a non-judgemental and non-pathologizing stand point. I hold the belief that trans-identity and sexual orientation are naturally diverse.
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Sexual & Gender Identity:
Queer - Female
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Experience and approach
Specific experience and training:
Original training and registration with UKCP as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (1996)
Working with couples, individuals and families for 20 + years
Training with Pink Therapy 2008-2009: The Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
Accredited Sexual Diversity Therapist with Pink Therapy
Ongoing training with Pink Therapy: Understanding Kink/BDSM; Trans* Emerging Trends; Beyond Gay & Straight; Trans-identified and trans-historied clients.
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Therapies Practiced:
Counselling, Psychosexual therapy, Psychotherapy, Supervision/Consultation.
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Specialisms and interests:
Over the past 20+ years I have developed particular expertise in working with individuals, couples and families presenting with a range of difficulties: for example communication difficulties, sexual difficulties, issues relating to all diverse parenting, situations of high conflict within couples and families.
I am particularly interested in the following
- couple work
- transgender issues
- questions of gender and identity
- issues with sexual behaviours
- substance use, including 'chem sex'
- kink lifestyle, kink/BDSM practices
- LGBT adoption
- Parenting
- HIV
-Haemophilia
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Theoretical approach:
Body Psychotherapy, Couple Therapy, Eclectic, Group Analytic Therapy, Humanistic, Integrative, Other, Psychodynamic, Relational.
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Ethical Framework:
UKAHPP.
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Qualifications
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The Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
Pink Therapy (Apr 2009)
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Accreditations:
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Issues and problems I can help with:
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Addictions/Compulsive behaviours, Adoption Issues, Anxiety/ Panic Attack, Autistic Spectrum, Bereavement/Grief, Cancer, Chronic Physical Ilness, Civil Partnership Preparation/ Dissolution, Coming Out Issues, Compulsive Behaviours (Sex, Gambling, Spending, etc), Cross Dressing/ Transvestism, Depression, Dissociative Disorders, Divorce, Drug/ Alcohol Misuse, Emotional Growth & Development, Gender Identity Concerns, HIV/ AIDS, Intimacy Issues, Kink/BDSM Identity Concerns, Learning/ Physical Disability issues, Parenting Issues, Post Traumatic Stress, Psychosis, Psychosomatic Illness, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem/Confidence, Sexual Arousal/ Desire Difficulties, Sexual Problems/Dysfunction/Desire Discrepancies, Shame/Guilt, Single Parenting Issues, Suicidal Behaviour/Ideation, Transgender, Trauma.
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