I am an experienced therapist and have worked full-time offering counselling and psychotherapy since 1997.  I opened The Beech Tree in 2006 for this purpose and to hold meditation classes.
​I use Transactional Analysis as the theoretical basis for my work as it offers an array of theories and methods to provide psychotherapy and counselling at the cognitive, behavioural, affective, physiological, and relational levels.

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Training and Memberships

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• BA in Applied Social Sciences from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  
• Post graduate Diploma in Communication and Counselling from WESICC, validated by the University of Strathclyde.  
• Completed a four year psychotherapy training with the  Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute of Edinburgh.

• Member of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and of the UK Association for Transactional Analysis.
• ​Regular supervision with trained and accredited supervisors.
• Regular continuing professional development

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”     Ben Okri