Associate Therapists
Introducing our associate therapists who work across the city, offering face-to-face and online counselling and psychotherapy.
Click here to find out how you could become an associate and how this could help your practice.
Hayley
Hayley is a 15 years qualified CBT therapist with experience in cross cultural communication and also has a BA Honours in Gender Studies, Sociology and Anthropology. In addition, Hayley is a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor and trainee psychotherapist, studying Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy in Hull.
Hayley has spent over a decade working with business professionals, expats and everyday people who all wanted to improve their lives and relationships but kept stalling at one hurdle or another.
She enjoys getting to the root of disputes, discovering what triggers and pains the client within themselves and their relationships and then sets out to explore techniques, mindsets and outlooks for an improved peace of mind.
This leads to less anxiety, less self sabotage, more freedom, better sleep and improved life prospects.
Hayley has more recently worked with Body Confidence, Teachers and Parents of Autistic/Special Needs Children, and welcomes clients from other countries and cultural backgrounds.
She is patient, confidential and human centred and believes your thoughts and feelings deserve to be aired and heard.
Hayley’s areas of interests are -
Pain Management (Chronic and un-diagnosed illnesses) | Trauma | Fear of Failure | Fear of Success | Procrastination | Perfectionism | Breakdown in Communication | Loneliness | 2nd and 3rd Generation Immigrants | Grief | OCD | Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Hayley is insured with Hiscox and is a member of UKATA.
Hayley is working face-to-face and her current trainee fees are £50 per session.
Andrew
Andrew is a qualified Psychotherapeutic Counsellor in Transactional Analysis. During his training he completed his clinical hours working with survivors of childhood abuse (emotional, psychological and sexual).
Alongside his practice, Andrew is a nationally licenced vulnerability trainer, delivering training to organisations across the country, in the areas of trauma, vulnerability and the impact of these on a person’s life. Part of this work is training groups on how they can engage with people effected by trauma, and education around the pathway to healing.
Andrew works to facilitate your awareness of repeated patterns of behaviour, working out together why life events have turned out the way they have, and discussing how to move forwards in a way which helps you to be more in control of your life, and decision making.
Andrew’s areas of interest are, but not exclusively:
Depression | Anxiety | Childhood Trauma | Repeated Patterns of Behaviour | Inferiority Complex | Low confidence | Anger
Andy’s fee is £50, he is a member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and insured my Balens Insurance.
Debbie
Debbie is a qualified Psychotherapist and works from her office in Willerby. Debbie has a long history of working in mental health services supporting adults and young people with a range of mental health difficulties. For 13 of those years, Debbie worked for the NHS where she gained specialist experience in supporting individuals affected by eating disorders. Debbie also founded and chaired a local charitable organisation for people effected by obsessive compulsive disorder.
Debbie is passionate about working with people struggling with their mental health and combines her experience, psychoeducational and relational skills when working with her clients. Debbie’s main therapeutic modality is Transactional Analysis (TA) but she also works as an integrative therapist; meaning she incorporates other models into her practice.
Debbie favours working co-creatively with her clients and encourages creativity in the therapy space which can be beneficial for connecting with the other parts of the self. Debbie is warm and nurturing in her approach and believes everybody has a human need to be seen, heard, and validated.
Debbie’s areas of interest are eating disorders and disordered eating | Obsessive compulsive behaviours/disorder | Hormone difficulties, perimenopause & menopause | Anxiety | Low mood or depression | Low confidence or self-esteem | Body dysmorphia or body issues | Suicidal thoughts or self-harm | Personality disorder or difficulties | Trauma | Relationship difficulties
Debbie is insured with Hiscox and is an accredited member of UKCP & MNCPS.
Debbie works face-to-face with individuals and couples. Her current fee is £55 per 60 minutes for individuals, £75 for couples and £110 per 90 minutes for couples.
Debbie offers a free, initial, 30-minute consultation via phone or online.
Maria
If you are looking to explore a relationship, Maria could be your person to do this with. Maria is passionate about helping her clients understand relationship dynamics, how you develop the roles you have in your relationships, when those roles worked for you and when they stopped working for you. She helps her clients understand how their beliefs about themselves and others, when out of awareness, influences the relationships they have. Maria understands that awareness is key, and until this is gained, relationship roles and dynamics can play out like a script, with you as a character in your own life; Maria can help you regain clarity and control so you can be more fulfilled in your relationships with others, and yourself. Maria also understands the impact around the breakdown of a relationship and can work with you to rebuild your belief in yourself and to support you in reconnecting with the parts of yourself you feel you have lost.
It was through her career as a teacher and her own experience of therapy that Maria decided to become a therapist. She is a humanistic counsellor with an integrative approach encompassing elements of CBT.
Maria has worked within the NHS Let’s Talk service for over 5 years. In this work she has helped people with a range of mental health issues and diversity in terms of age, culture, social background, gender and sexuality and with a wide range of challenges such as
Depression | Anxiety | Grief | Relationship issues | Trauma | Suicidal thoughts | Loss | Addiction | Stress
She is also able to work with people whose first language is not English.
Maria’s fees are £45 for a 60 minute appointment, she works face-to-face (from an office on Beverley Road, Hull) and offers telephone appointments.
Maria is a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and psychotherapists (BACP) and is insured with Holistic Insurance Services.
Vicky
With a background in Psychology, Health and Education, Vicky has a lifelong curiosity and interest in helping people to understand themselves and why they do the things they do. Clients and colleagues experience Vicky as a calm, easy-going, non-judgemental therapist who turns up to sessions without an agenda and is comfortable in the dark places people sometimes need to go to in the therapy space.
In a session with Vicky you can expect that she will check-in with what is happening for you, for herself and within the relationship between the two of you in response to the content being discussed. In a nutshell, Vicky predominantly works relationally but she also enjoys working creatively with clients that are open to it. For example, she may have you putting things in a sand tray, using buttons to represent the people in your life or putting music to your life story.
Vicky welcomes clients with many different life challenges, but her particular interests due to previous roles and first hand experiences are around:
Body image | Weight loss/gain mindsets and emotions associated with food | IVF & infertility | Loss / Grief | Relationship difficulties including control and abuse | Depression | Anxiety | Anger
Vicky is a UKCP registered level 6 Integrative TA Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and trainee Psychotherapist studying at the Ellesmere Centre for Psychotherapy Training.
Vicky is insured through Balens and currently charges £45 for a 50 minute 1-2-1 session. Counselling sessions with Vicky are available face-to-face at Withernsea, Holderness road and Beverley Road or online.
Rosie
Rosie brings a unique skill set as a trainee psychotherapist as she is an experienced Registered Nurse with professional experience in the areas of Neurology medicine and Chronic Pain management. In part, it is her professional experience as a nurse, that underpins her desire to work with her clients in a way that supports all of the client’s mind-body system, creating changes in their life, that are all encompassing and not solely managed by medication. Rosie was also inspired to move into this work after her own healing journey, as she felt first-hand how a wonderful therapeutic relationship could be and how it brought her back to herself.
Rosie is completing her 4- year Relational Integrative Psychotherapy course in Scarborough and has clinical endorsement to practice. Rosie brings the warmth and care from nursing into the therapy room, where working with the mind-body connection is her passion.
Rosie works relationally, which means that she’s really interested in how you relate to her, and other people in your life. She also looks at how patterns from your past can be repeated in the present, so that you can decide if they are still serving you, or not. Working relationally means you can practice making changes in how you relate to others in the therapy room first, before taking them out into the world.
Rosie regularly completes Continual Professional Development (CPD) and reading in the areas of her special interests: pre-trial therapy | historical abuse | dysfunctional family backgrounds | complex trauma.
With Rose, you set the pace, you chose what you would like to work on, and for how long, and she will be next to you throughout your journey, however that may look for you.
Sessions are 60 minutes long and will be £40 and are held from her office in Willerby.
Rosie is insurance is with Balans: ZUR-UKCP/24/08/104 and is on the UKCP trainee register. NMC pin: 11A0207E
Sam
If you are neurodivergent, or think that you may be, Sam could be the associate therapist for you, as this is his area of interest. His interest has been present through his experiences of working in school settings as a primary teacher and his mental health support role in a university; his passion to support neurodivergent people in a neurotypical world followed his therapy training where he completed placements with Mathews Hub (support service for those who are autistic) and SEED (support service for people with eating disorders). Sam feels honoured by the relationships he’s experienced with this client group and notices that their developing understanding of their experience of the world, enriches his own.
Sam is currently practicing as a qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, working his final year to gain the full Integrative Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy qualification.
Sam aims to work creatively to best suit your own personal experience and tailor the therapy space to your own unique needs. Aiming to help you gain a greater awareness and understanding of your thoughts, feelings and relationships with others.
Sam insured by Balens Limited and is a student member of UKCP.
He works face to face at locations on Beverley Road and Holderness Road and his fees are £50 for 55 minute appointments.
Sam also offers limited spaces for low-cost therapy sessions which involve a discussion around what you can afford to ensure that therapy is accessible for all.
Disclaimer
All qualifications, insurance and professional membership certificates are submitted on becoming an associate, it is the responsibility of each therapist to update their records within the associate agreement.
The therapists hold full responsibility for the therapeutic work they provide.
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