About me

After my BA Degree in Psychology I acquired in Budapest, I completed my MA Degree in Person-centred Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Nottingham. Over the training, I completed my placement at the wonderful Treetops Hospice, offering bereavement counselling to adults, and I volunteered to work with children and young people. 

I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), and I am committed to working in accordance with their Ethical Framework, which you can access here. 

I hold an enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) certificate, I hold a full professional indemnity insurance, and I am registered with the ICO (Information Commissioner's Office) as a data controller.

I chose the logo of a potato with sprouts because it represents the tendency to actualise one’s potential. To Carl Rogers, the founder of the person-centred approach, this tendency is the basis of the counsellor’s trust in the client and their choice of direction in counselling. He tells the story of a supply of potatoes kept in the basement, where despite the harsh conditions with minimal source of light, they started growing sprouts: pale, twisted, scarcely plant – but sprouts. When talking about his approach to clients from the psychiatric ward where he worked, he says:

“So unfavourable have been the conditions in which these people have developed that their lives often seem abnormal, twisted, scarcely human. Yet, the directional tendency in them can be trusted. The clue to understanding their behaviour is that they are striving, in the only ways that they perceive as available to them, to move toward growth, toward becoming.”

(Rogers, 1980, p. 119)

It is with this trust in the innate tendency towards becoming and actualising one’s potentials that I regard counselling. As such, my aim is to help all my clients to grow their ‘sprouts’, even if their (potentially still ongoing) time spent as a ‘basement-potato’ can only allow for a slow, pale start. This means that as my client, I trust you in your ability to know what is best for you, and I am ready to be there with you, providing a safe environment and relationship in which you can find this knowledge that is already in there.

Rogers, C. R. (1980). A way of being. Houghton Mifflin Company.