Personal & Relationship Counselling

I am a qualified and experienced couple’s counsellor and person centred therapist, and an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. I specialise in relationship counselling and have been in practice for over ten years. I have successfully worked for many well known organisations providing counselling services for employees.

Like most counsellors this is my second career. Originally I was in the Royal Navy, but my seafaring days were ended by an accident in which I lost my left hand. After trying a number of occupations I started training as a counsellor twelve years ago. Since then, I have found counselling a very rewarding occupation, in which my own life experiences play a valuable part in helping me to empathise with the problems and difficulties of my clients.

Since training at Manchester Metropolitan University I have worked for 18years in a variety of settings, both in the public and private sectors; including my own private practice. I spent 3 years in France working with the ex-pat community.

My orientation is integrative, embracing a humanistic approach, based on the extensive range of skills which I have developed working with a wide variety of clients. I have worked for many years with survivors of sexual abuse and violence.

I now enjoy working with PRC where I also co-ordinate the workshop programme.

Following completing an Honours Degree in English and American I trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked for many years in Community Mental Health Projects. Further training culminated in my gaining a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy at the Iron Mill Institute in Exeter. (BACP affiliated) I have my own psychotherapy practice in Launceston, Cornwall and work freelance as a trainer and supervisor.

As a humanistic relational therapist I believe that the therapeutic relationship offers a safe warm space in which to explore life issues and to grow as an individual.

Jo has been a practising Cognitive Behavioural Therapist for nearly ten years. She trained at Goldsmith College in London and worked with the NHS for five years. Jo has been working with us at Personal and Relationship Counselling for a couple of years, and we have found her to be a very effective therapist. She works with people with a wide variety of difficulties including, depression, anxiety, OCD, stress, anger management, body dismorphia and interpersonal difficulties. Jo also offers supervision to counsellors, nurses and other professionals.