I help people with normal-life challenges and mental health issues.
You too, can feel better about yourself and your future.
Welcome
I offer private psychotherapy and counselling sessions to adult Individuals and Couples dealing with both current challenges and long standing issues.
My confidential and ethical approach comes together with a wealth of professionalism, expertise and experience.
Book a FREE 20-minute consultation to see if we are a good fit. In the meantime, for a very short introductory video of me, click here.
Psychotherapy and Counselling Service
Do you have a Goal for Your Therapy or Do you just want to feel better?
If we are feeling mentally out of sorts, it can be difficult to make sense of our experience alone. By coming to therapy you have a safe place to bring your stresses, upsets, frustrations, confusion and anything else that is bothering you. Therapy gives you time to focus on just you in a space where there is support with no judgement.
Type of session
In-person sessions are many client's preference which provide a fuller, more personal, and more focused experience. My client-centred therapy room provides you with a calm, quiet, private and containing environment for sensitive conversations.
Online sessions can also be very effective and can give you easier access to therapy, offering flexibility when time, energy and other commitments are additional considerations.
A hybrid approach is available at my practice if that suits you.
We don't so much solve our problems, as we outgrow them. We add capabilities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
Carl Jung.
About my work
Passion
I am passionate about helping people change their lives. Time after time I see the positive impact that psychotherapy can have. Many clients move on feeling lighter, more hopeful, reenergised and with results that exceed their expectations.
Approach
My approach is collaborative and interactive, and whether I use psychotherapy, counselling or coaching techniques, your needs are central. Above all, our work will be focused on empowering you to find your own path and solutions, with me as a guide along the way.
Tools
I will often introduce you to useful tools and techniques to not only help you now with not only the challenges you face now but to also equip you for future ones.
Experience
I have extensive experience supporting individuals and couples with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, abuse, relationship challenges and loss.
Expertise
Backdrop
I specialise in exploring unhelpful behavioural patterns, often focusing on attachment styles, early childhood experiences and discovering what happened to make you who you are. We are like a recipe and it's so important to understand your own unique ingredients.
Relationships
I am skilled at understanding you from a conscious and unconscious perspective because of my specialised training and experience.
- Relationship with you - Your primary relationship is the one you have with yourself, and to know yourself better is a gift to you. This internal relationship often gets overlooked but your self-talk and your self-worth are fundamental in how you experience your life and others. I can support your personal journey of self exploration, which can have far reaching results.
- Relationship with others - I can support you with navigating your relationships with family, friends, and work colleagues. I can work with you to gain insights into how you and they interact together to create the dynamic you have.
- Relationship with intimate partner - I am experienced in helping couples navigate a variety of relationship challenges, including infidelity, trust issues, difficulties with sex and intimacy, and non-traditional relationship structures. For those who may find it relevant, I offer kink-ware therapy, with a respectful and open approach to BDSM and alternative lifestyles.
Neurodiversity
I have an extensive experience working with individuals with ADHD and ASD. both professionally and personally, which has given me a deep understanding of how to support their differences and the effects of neurodiversity.
The Body
Inspired by The Body Keeps The Score and my personal experience incorporating somatic awareness into therapy, I integrate approaches like mindfulness, poly-vagal theory, and breath work when suitable to best support my clients. In relation to the body, I have a deep understanding of physical health challenges, including those associated with miscarriage, menopause and hormonal/endocrine issues.
Early life
Through extensive personal research into my own birth and post birth experiences, I have developed a deep interest in the pre-cognitive experiences that shape us in the earliest moments of life. Experiences such as trauma in utero, separation from caregivers at birth, and early adoption - events that occur before we have the capacity for conscious memory - can leave profound imprints on both our minds and bodies. These early experiences may influence our emotional and physiological responses, shaping how we navigate relationships, cope with stress, and develop our sense of identity. Through therapy I can help you explore these deep seated imprints, uncovering how they still may be affecting you in unconscious ways.
For Individuals
My extensive experience covers a wide range of challenges, including but not limited to;
Anxiety
Stress
Depression
Relationship challenges
Trauma
Health concerns
Grief and Loss
Overwhelm
Betrayal
Sense of self
Sexuality
Life changes and transitions
Neurodiversity
Sex
Whatever is causing you distress, whether it is related to the past, present or future, we can give it some time and space. Often, when we focus on one issue there can be a knock on effect. As you get to know yourself more, other aspects of your life change in positive ways. Learning more about yourself in therapy can open up your emotions, your capacity, your resilience, your confidence and your self compassion. Put another way, you can become better equipped to deal with whatever comes your way.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep in the centre of your being.
Confucius
For Couples
A positive aspect of Couples counselling is having the opportunity to put some shared time aside together, to have the conversations that are easy to put off, and hard to have. Being in a supportive therapy room and space, can often provide the safety needed to bring up sensitive thoughts and feelings. The neutral witnessing of couple interactions can help defuse tension and emotional dysregulation, helping both parties to process difficulties together.
There are many starting positions for Couples therapy, with one or both parties wanting to invest in rebuilding the relationship. The following are common challenges we can address together:
General breakdown of relationship
Communication difficulties
Conflict resolution
Infidelity or breach of trust
Loss of emotional intimacy
Loss of sexual intimacy and sexual problems
Challenges of a blended family
Significant and unexpected life changes
Changing life goals
Role changes
Cultural or sexuality challenges
Consciously navigating the end of a relationship
It is natural to feel reluctant about Couples therapy if you and your partner are not on the same page, and by nature of the work, very often this is the case. Coming to sessions will provide insights into your individual behaviours and challenges, as well as giving you some relationship tools to use.
Couples therapy is not only for those in romantic relationships. Any two people who are experiencing distressed in their relationship are welcome to my couples counselling, for example, siblings, friends, work colleagues and parent-child relationships.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Book a FREE Consultation
Before committing to working together, I offer a FREE 20-minute Consultation via phone or by zoom.
Click here to send me an email message to request a FREE Consultation.
In therapy we can be sharing ourselves fully, and you want to know that you are in safe hands. Knowing first-hand how important it is to feel comfortable and safe in a therapeutic relationship, I want to give you this extended opportunity to get to know me and to see how you feel.
Session Structure
Typically individual sessions are weekly, at the same time. We can meet in-person, in Chalfont St Peter, or online via zoom.
The number of sessions will depend on you, and the work.
We can agree to short term work which would mean containing within a set number sessions, for example, 8 sessions. Alternatively, we can work longer term, in an open-ended way.
Couples sessions may start weekly, and move to bi-weekly. You may also choose to commit to a fixed number of sessions initially.
Single sessions are available on request and with due consideration.
Fees
Individual Psychotherapy and Counselling £65 per session
Couples Psychotherapy and Counselling £95 per session
Single session Individual Psychotherapy and Counselling £75 per session
Contact Jo
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Phone - 07778 785 100
Monday to Friday 09.00 - 20.00
Weekend Closed
I work from Copthall Lane, in Chalfont St Peter near Gerrards Cross, SL9 0BZ.
Qualifications & Experience
- Masters Degree Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Level 7) - training completed
- Post Graduate Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Level 6) from Metanoia Institute.
- Foundation Certificate in Humanistic Counselling Skills and Studies from Metanoia Institute.
- Understanding Autism (Level 2) - training completed
Memberships
Member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
I abide by the above affiliation’s membership rules with regards to Codes of Ethics, continued professional development and training, insurances, and supervision.
About Me
I am passionate about my work and I spend a great deal of my time expanding my knowledge in this field of mental health, and I am supported by regular supervision and personal therapy.
Alongside my private practice, I like to focus on my own health and wellness by spending time in nature and by exercising.
I am also very grateful to be a mother of two children.