I am Director of CBT Counselling Services, located in Newtownards, Co Down and in the centre of Belfast near Queens University, Belfast. Clients range from 14 years old to 18+ years.

I am a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and am registered as an accredited member of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP) and as an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I am also an EMDR practitioner.

I have nearly 15 years experience in counselling and in Mental Health areas. My experience has been gained working in various 'trouble' areas of Belfast, GP surgeries, Employment Assistant Programmes, private practice, in various 'troubled' areas of Belfast, and counselling people affected by the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland for the Victims and Survivors Service. In addition, I have facilitated Stress Control for two years for Belfast Trust, facilitated on a HUB which refers patients to Counselling Organisations and have worked with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.

For the past 4½ years I have set up and managed a CBT Counselling Service for Praxis Care (Praxis Care Counselling) which is one of the largest charities in Northern Ireland.

I have 14½ years experience in counselling and mental health areas. I have experience in the following areas:

• Depression
  
• Anxiety
  
• Panic Attacks
  
• Stress
  
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  
• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (OCD)
  
• Acute Stress Disorder
  
• Sleep
  
• Suicide Ideation
  
• Health Anxiety
  
• Social Anxiety
  
• Phobias
  
• Bereavement
  
• Self Harming
  
• Eating Disorders (mild)
  
• Low Self Esteem
  
• Assertion
  
• Anger Manager
  
• Addiction
  

MSc BSc (Hons) Psycho P/G Dip CBT, MBABCP (Accred) MBACP (Accred) MBPS

Post Graduate Diploma from a BACP Accredited two year Diploma course in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Masters in Counselling and Therapeutic Communication.
BSc (Hons) in Psychology.
Accredited CBT Psychotherapist with the BABCP and accredited with the BACP.
Level 5 in Trauma Focused CBT and regularly attends workshops in this area.
Parts I, II, and III in EMDR and working towards accreditation in this area.
Completed 8 week course in Mindfulness Meditation.
Annually complete Continual Professional Development which is a requirement of the BABCP and BACP professional bodies.

£60 per session (one hour 'pay as you go' sessions, single sessions or fortnightly).
Self-help literature provided
Top up sessions as and when needed.

Fees are due to qualifications, training and extensive experience.

It is recommended that clients come for an Initial Assessment and 2 - 4 follow-up sessions close together. Then if they choose they can reduce their sessions to fortnightly in order to spread the cost.

The number of sessions is relevant to a client's issues.