J A M I E
C R A B B
COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY
You may be considering counselling and psychotherapy because you are experiencing difficulties in your life related to your past or present, are feeling stuck, seeking new direction and change or wish to develop greater awareness of yourself and more vitality in life.
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I offer a warm and confidential space to listen and support you to explore, reflect and understand your feelings and experiences. The space we create together can support the exploration of a range of emotions and experiences that can be challenging but equally involve humour and laughter and lead to insight, understanding, growth and change.
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Contact me to explore the possibility of working together on your journey. Learn more about me, my experience, how I work and frequently asked questions below. ​For support in times of immediate crisis, helpful links, articles, self-help tools, local and national organisations and communities see Support Resources.
About Jamie
Hi, welcome to my website! My name is Jamie. I am a qualified therapist registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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I have worked with adults and young people in education and as a therapist for over twenty years. I offer in-person one-to-one short and long-term counselling and psychotherapy in Brighton at my private practice room in Hanover, and outdoors and at Aashna Counselling and Psychotherapy in North Finchley, North London.
I work mindfully of intersectionality, cultural diversity, beliefs and values and am experienced working with:
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childhood and intergenerational trauma
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self-esteem and confidence
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anger | depression | anxiety and panic
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education and workplace difficulties
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body issues, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours
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relationship and family difficulties
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loss and bereavement
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disrupted childhood, care experience (growing up in the care system), adoptees and becoming a foster carer
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intersectionality and cultural diversity
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queer, gender, sexual and relationship diversity affirmative including training and support in working affirmatively with trans and non-binary from Gendered Intelligence.
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neurodivergent affirmative - autism, AD(H)D, dyslexia and dyspraxia
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visible and non-visible disability, long-term health conditions and illness​​
Experience
From the start of my career, I have worked in roles that have focused on enabling growth, change, and empowerment for individuals and communities. After completing my degree in applied theatre (educational, community and therapeutic contexts) I worked for a community education project supporting the growth of young people experiencing social and emotional challenges.
Subsequently, I worked in higher education both as a lecturer and disability practitioner supporting disabled young people and adults, long-term health conditions, neurodivergence, learning differences, mental health and wellbeing. These roles supported me in developing an invaluable understanding of the power of authentic and enabling relationships and led me to complete my counselling and psychotherapy training at the Minster Centre.
I have worked as a therapist and wellbeing trainer/mentor at a London GP surgery, London Metropolitan University, Barnet Mind, the homelessness charity Crisis, Diversity & Ability (D&A) championing (neuro)Diversity and (dis)Ability inclusion and the REES Foundation supporting life-long help and support to those with care experience.
As a member of the Aashna Counselling and Psychotherapy Creative Team we are nourishing a therapeutically informed learning community of clients and therapists with social justice at its heart where the pulse of Aashna’s name ‘devoted to love’ is sensed, felt, questioned, critiqued and creatively put into action through Aashna+. A core enquiry of our work is the exploration:
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I support the Care Leavers Connect project for the Care Leavers Association and I am a founder and ally member of a visible and non-visible disabled therapist group and neurodivergent therapist group.
I supported the creation of the Care Experienced and Culture Digital Archive collating information about Care Experienced characters in fiction and on-screen, and writers, artists, actors and sports people.
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I am co-author/editor of Study Skills for Students with Dyslexia - Support for Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs) SAGE Publications based on my experience supporting students.
I have authored a chapter in the 3rd Edition of Lisa Cherry's The Brightness of Stars: Stories from Care Experienced Adults to Inspire Change.
How I Work
My approach is relational and non-judgemental as I believe that a good therapeutic relationship is based on trust and honesty. Most importantly the way I work begins with listening. I am passionate about getting to know and understand those I work with to fully understand the difficulties they are experiencing and the changes they hope to achieve. A core question and enquiry that underpins my work with clients is 'What is getting in the way of love, relationships, community and vitality?'
As an integrative therapist, I draw on approaches informed by different theoretical and practice traditions in the field of psychotherapy including humanistic, psychoanalytic and attachment, trauma-informed, body-oriented and cognitive-behavioural (CBT) approaches. Working relationally in exploring the relationship between us can enable understanding of challenges experienced with relationships and intimacy.
Integrating a systemic lens I understand individual struggles are never in isolation and the importance of exploring social norms and systems that contribute to unhappiness. An engagement with philosophy, social theory, spirituality and gently encouraging your personal creativity is embodied in my approach.
You can expect a friendly, warm and confidential environment working with me. I aim to support you in exploring the relationship between your past and present in your intergenerational story, and develop greater awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and bodily experience. I will be honest, reflective, open, and curious in our work. Together we will create a space for you to look in and experience yourself, then gather the strength to make changes that you hope for and greater vitality and meaning in life.
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Contact Jamie
Tel: 07745535562
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I work in:
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Brighton at my private practice room in Hanover BN2 9UT, and outdoors
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Aashna Counselling & Psychotherapy, North Finchley, North London N12 9EH - less than ten minutes walk from Woodside Park tube station (Northern Line) and North Finchley bus station
Contact me using the contact form below, by email to arrange a 30-minute, no-obligation video or phone conversation to explore the possibility of working together on your therapy journey.