Welcome

I am an integrative relational counsellor working face to face and online from Bristol (BS1). My aim is to create a space where you feel compassionately accepted and heard. I work individually and am happy to do either weekly or fortnightly sessions.

I am committed to anti-oppressive practice and have over two years experience working with ethnically diverse clients, along with my own lived experience as a mixed race person. I am passionate about improving access to counselling for minoritised individuals and currently work at Nilaari Agency to help with this.

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP 398658) and adhere to their ethical framework.

My Approach

It’s tricky to describe approaches to counselling without getting jargon-heavy. My aim here is to describe how I work in layman’s terms and I am happy to talk with you in more depth about my approach if you wish.

I use a person-centred approach [PCA] as my foundation. This means I believe that each of us has the capacity to grow given the right conditions. Therefore I work to co-create a space with you which facilitates those conditions you need to grow and develop: a warm, empathetic and non-judgemental acceptance of you and your current circumstances.

I believe that the relationship we build is key to the work we do so encourage and welcome feedback. I will also be an active participant in the relationship: being myself with you whilst staying in the boundaries of a professional relationship. I respect everyone I work with as an individual and try my best to avoid making assumptions about you and what might help.

Being an integrative counsellor means that, whilst I work with person-centred underpinnings I also draw on a variety of other models to find a tailored approach that works best for you. Some models of counselling I call upon are psychodynamic (working with your past to understand your present); parts work (viewing the self as made up of multiple parts and communicating with these parts in various ways) and I also work creatively if you feel that would work for you.