Let Me
Introduce Myself
Please let me introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my counselling experience and my counselling qualifications...
I have always worked with people and prior to becoming a counsellor, I worked as a HR professional for a large manufacturing company. I recognised my profession was not giving me the purpose, meaning or work life balance I wanted so I decided to start a new chapter in working with people, but in a different way.
My Journey into Counselling
My new career direction started 10 years ago; a sudden loss of a loved one affected me. To help me through this tough time, I had some bereavement counselling. I noticed from having the safe space to talk about my feelings and issues at the time, I questioned my life direction. My loss put my life into perspective. I recognised I had outgrown my HR role and wanted my profession to be meaningful and reflect me as a person, so I decided to become a counsellor. I left behind the world of business and started my counselling career. I progressed from an introductory basic evening course to completing a Bachelor of Arts in counselling.
My Counselling Qualifications
During my Training
Throughout my training, I counselled bereaved clients at a local hospice. This introduced me to working with loss and bereavement. In addition, I worked with people affected by mental illness for a local division of a national charity. My clients presenting issues were stress and depression but also included bipolar disorder and PTSD.
My Counselling Profession
Once qualified, I started and managed a counselling service for a local charity for people impacted by cancer. Awarded funding allows the charity to provide free support to families impacted by cancer in Coventry and Warwickshire. I continue to oversee this service and have over seven years’ experience of counselling clients whose lives have been devastated by cancer.
My Counselling Experience
In addition, I have experience of counselling diverse clients covering Anxiety, Bereavement, Depression, Loss, Trauma, Cancer, Self-esteem, Relationships, Redundancy, Stress and Work-related issues. Whilst the scope of my counselling work has been working with the impacts of a loss of some kind, I am able to work with most life issues people struggle with.