I’m passionate about helping business leaders and owners to thrive, at work and in life.
Hi! I’m Belinda. I am a fully qualified, experienced and fully registered Psychotherapist and Integrated Executive Coach. Additionally, I am also a mental health and well-being workshop facilitator for teams.
My Approach
I am passionate about providing a safe, understanding therapy space to help you overcome problems, learn new skills and make lasting changes. This is to help you to find relief and achieve your aspirations. Also on offer is a non-judgmental, challenging, transformative coaching space, enabling clients to set clear goals and create powerful results. I offer a warm, professional, down-to-earth, transformation approach, whether therapy or integrated coaching.
I have an active commitment to equality, diversity, equity and inclusion. I’ve been fortunate to work with a broad range of clients throughout my career. I’ve successfully completed Mother Tongue training for clients requiring a British Sign Language (BSL) or mother tongue language interpreter.
My Background
My occupational background includes providing individual and group therapies within a range of NHS and charitable services and the private sector. I have worked as a Director of therapeutic services and director and middle manager within charitable mental health settings. Furthermore, I have worked in specialist sexual and domestic violence services and trauma recovery services. My history includes extensive experience working for therapy services (and crisis services) for addiction, self-harm and suicide prevention services within Camden and Islington in North London. Additionally, I have offered my considerable skills for independent consultancy psychotherapy work, working with professional and corporate clients with various issues. All these experiences have meant I have been fortunate to have worked with people with all kinds of problems from all walks of life. I have offered executive coaching to leaders, senior managers, business owners and entrepreneurs, primarily within the private sector.
Why I Do This Work?
After 20 years of working as a psychotherapist and noticing more and more leaders and senior managers were coming to me with emotional, behavioural, and mental health concerns, I decided to complete additional executive coaching training to enable me to serve not only the individual, but leaders and their whole organisation. With a 12 year leadership history of my own, I have lived experience and awareness of the challenges that can arise as a leader. While I was excelling from the outside, internally I was incredibly overwhelmed, stressed and well on the way to burnout, isolated and anxious. As I look back, I recognise that had it been available, I would have benefitted greatly from having an integrated executive coach. I regularly witness, (and a strong body of research demonstrates) that SME business leaders and owners experience high levels of mental heath problems. Today, I help stressed SME leaders and business owners experiencing personal or professional blocks…blocks getting in the way of them being the best leader they can be. I provide a confidential psychotherapy and integrated executive coaching service for those seeking transformational help.
My Qualifications & Registration
I have successfully long since completed my psychotherapy and counselling training. This was at the School of Psychotherapy & Counselling at Regent's University (formerly Regent's College) in London. Subsequently, I successfully completed specialist training as a Master Practitioner for Eating Disorders at the National Centre for Eating Disorders in Surrey.
My primary therapeutic approach is Existential; however, I also work from the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) perspective, where most beneficial to clients.
I have successfully achieved the following qualifications:
B.A (HON) Psychology with Social Studies
Post-graduate Certificate in Health Psychology
M.A Psychotherapy & Counselling
Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy
I also hold a Master Practitioner Award (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) in Eating Disorders and Obesity which consists of an:
Advanced Diploma in Eating Disorders & Nutritional Interventions
Diploma in Practitioner Skills for Eating Disorders
Post-graduate Certificate in Obesity Management
I have also successfully achieved a Diploma in Counselling Supervision with Distinction. Additionally, I successfully completed ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring.
I am UKCP registered, adhere to the UKCP code of ethics, EMCC Accredited, and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I'm also a member of the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA). I am committed to continued personal and professional development and attend clinical supervision as part of best practice.
If you’d like to learn more about executive therapy, executive coaching, or workshops, please call me on 07714 028837. Alternatively, if you’d like to book a free 30-minute consultation, please email me at [email protected] or click here.