About me

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to look over my website.

I am Trisha (Patricia) and I am a qualified, registered and experienced counsellor with over 20 years experience helping people overcome life’s difficulties, changes and challenges to build satisfying futures.

I offer a warm, accepting, skilled approach to helping you manage your difficulties. My training enables me to practice in ways that can allows a flexible approach to promoting the changes and outcomes that you seek, tailored to your individual personality and circumstances.

Since qualifying over two decades ago I have gained extensive experience, working in private practice, the NHS, voluntary and community services as a counsellor, and as a non-medical mental health mentor in higher education.

I now solely work in private practice offering individual support, guided self-help workshops and training for professionals.

Professional standards

I am a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists (BACP), and an associate member of the Association of Coaching and am bound by their Ethical Codes of Conduct.

I have full professional insurance, have enhanced clearance with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) for working with vulnerable adults and children, and am registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).

Associate member

Training

Core training

MA Counselling Studies (2005)

Graduate Diploma Counselling (2003)

PG Diploma Systemic Leadership & Organisational Development (2016)

Further professional training includes:

Primary Certificate in Single Session Therapy

Certificate in Coaching

Primary Certificate in Health & Wellbeing Coaching

Complex and Complicated Bereavement & Loss

ASD and ADHD awareness

Dialogical Behavioural Therapy Toolkit

Anxiety Management

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Trauma Focused CBT