My Philosophy

Having worked for so long within NHS mental health services, I have become very aware of some of the shortfalls within mental health provision, particularly within the area of psychological therapies.

Some of the shortfalls seem to be:

Therapies available can be very limited in their scope - only certain things will be catered for and anything outside of a list of formal diagnoses will not be addressed.

There are excessively long waiting lists to access talking therapies within both primary and secondary mental health services.

There are numerous 'gateways' for people to get through in order to access services, and this can feel like jumping through needless and frustrating hoops to get the required help.

There is little provision for ongoing interventions to 'offer support, allow time to talk about things and to generally just be there'; time is limited and as soon as you've had your allotted number of sessions the service ends.

If you feel that I may be able to help you, why not get in touch and we can have a telephone discussion about how we might move forward.

Costs available on request.