About Sue

Experience:

My career started as a social worker in the Criminal Justice System. I also have experience working in the charity sector supporting single parents and people living with HIV.

As a therapist I have wide ranging experience working with relationship issues, anxiety and work stress, depression, life crises, low self esteem, sexuality, sexual difficulties, trauma, and feelings of shame and disconnect.

I believe that in many of life’s difficulties we learn coping strategies in which we prioritise our response to the external world: we fire fight; we please others; we do what is expected of us. We loose our creativity. We are distracted from, or ignore, the wisdom of our internal world. This can lead to feelings of anxiety, anger or fear, or alternatively a lack of feeling in the lows of depression.

Over the years, both professionally and personally, I have become deeply interested in the transformation and healing found in reconnecting with our internal landscape. How this enables more meaningful connections with others. We can find a place of belonging. We can find peace. We can connect with our aliveness amd our right to be.

Can we find the courage to let go and learn to live with uncertainty - bringing the chance to keep questioning, keep feeling, keep risking - to daily keep stepping back into life.

Training and Qualifications:

• BA Combined Social Sciences (University of Keele)

• Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (University of Keele)

• Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Arts (IATE/University of East London)

• Diploma Integrative Counselling (The Minster Centre)

• Advanced Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (The `Minster Centre)

• MA Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (Middlesex University)

• I am a registered member of the United Kingdom Council forPsychotherapy (UKCP), and adhere to their regulatory codes of practice, which ensure ethical practice and require continued professional development and supervision.

Next Steps:

Many of us have been hurt and bruised in the different relationships in our life. We may have lost our shape in the boxes society and culture have forced us into.

Finding a therapist, and making a commitment to a relational journey which is as yet unknown, can feel daunting. Yet leading a life in which we allow ourselves to know more of ourself, be more of ourself, requires our fierce commitment.

If you take this next step I will be alongside - we will swim in the same water - I will bring my expertise as a guide, asking the right questions, bringing tenderness where there has been judgment, looking from new angles and fundamentally allowing everything voice and a right to be.

Please contact me if you want to find out more about how it might feel for us to work together.