Serious about making changes in your life?
If you are looking for a therapy, relationship counselling or coaching you have taken a courageous first step. Life can be challenging for us all at times. I love the work I do; helping people to understand themselves and their relationships in order to live more fulfilling lives.I work privately from beautiful premises on Southernhay, right in the centre of Exeter, Devon, with a wide spectrum of people; individual adults and couples, with many differing presenting issues. Professional, approachable, open-minded and non-judgmental, I have the utmost respect for your individuality and life circumstances.
I have an interest in working with students. Please click here for more on my therapeutic coaching service for students.
I draw from several reputable theories of practice enabling me to work effectively, progressively and collaboratively with individuals and couples.
Offering a fully professional service I am fortunate enough to be able to work full-time at my dedicated Exeter practice, seeing clients five days a week. I do short, medium and long term therapeutic and supportive work.
I am committed to facilitating the exploration of the issues you bring. If you are serious about committing the time and energy required I invite you to make contact to arrange an initial appointment.
This is also a blogsite which I use to make regular posts about my work and continuing professional development as a counsellor and coach. Click here for my Articles.
Embarking on a course of therapy can be daunting and my aim on this site is to help you feel relaxed and confident that you make the choice that is right for you.
Would coaching be a better fit?
I also see clients for fortnightly/monthly/ad hoc sessions for supervision, mentoring and coaching, as well as providing a professional, confidential space to discuss all aspects of personal life and work. For more information please see my coaching site Relational Best.
Regulation
Please, whoever you decide to have counselling or coaching with, whether individual or agency, ensure that they are registered with an adequate professional body. The BACP is the largest professional body and have a robust complaints procedure which is why I choose to be registered with them. BACP Accredited status is an established, recognised and accepted assurance of experience and maturity as a practitioner. Without membership of a self-regulating professional body then clients have no recourse should they feel that they are being treated unethically. At the moment, there is nothing to stop people practising as counsellors without this protection for their clients. Following the dreadful scandal involving the Exeter based Palace Gate Counselling Service I researched and wrote about this topic on this post about the regulation of counselling and psychotherapy.
I spent several years campaiging for the regulation of counselling and psychotherapy along with Phil Dore via the website Unsafe Spaces. I took a step back from this to focus on my practice (March 2018).
Check my BACP Registration entry here
Registered with WPA Health Insurance
Registered with WPA Health Insurance
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but in the case of therapists lifting content directly from other therapists' websites I reckon that this is not good for our clients and does not reflect well on either ourselves as practitioners with integrity nor the profession as a whole. We all take inspiration from other professionals but please at least change some of the words and sentences around. I am proud of the content of my website which has been carefully constructed over many years of practice and have been concerned to see some of my site lifted almost word for word on other therapist sites.