About me
I am a BABCP fully accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist providing confidential cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. I currently work in a busy NHS Psychological Therapy Service in Maidstone treating people with moderate to severe depression and anxiety disorders. I have experience working with clients with panic, generalised anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), agoraphobia, social anxiety (shyness), specific phobias (dogs, driving, spiders), perfectionism, low self-esteem, habit disorders (hair pulling, skin picking), depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I have worked in my current job for six years and worked for the NHS since I completed my university degree in 2001.
My background is in occupational therapy (BSc Science 1998 – 2001). I worked for seven years in a Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team in the Medway Towns. My role as an occupational therapist involved a holistic approach working with people to adapt physically, mentally and emotionally to head injury, stroke and long term neurological conditions. More recently I completed my cognitive behavioural therapy training at the University of Brighton where I qualified as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist in 2009.
I am 36 years old and apart from my training and experience, I pride myself in my ability to form a good therapeutic relationship with a calm and empathic approach. I am a mum of two small children, my special interests include working with parents to build confidence and self-esteem in their own abilities. I also enjoy working with clients that have experienced disability, long term illness and other medical conditions.