Simon is a integrative counsellor in training and is registered with the BACP. He works within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost counselling service in Tooting, and is currently working towards an advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling. Simon offers a warm, attentive and non-judgemental space for you to explore the challenges and questions you would like to bring to therapy, including anxiety, depression and life transitions. As a counsellor he offers skilled companionship – being alongside you and offering compassion, perspective and understanding as you walk your own unique path.

As an integrative counsellor, Simon draws on a variety of different approaches, working with clients in a responsive way and tailoring the therapy to the individual needs of the client. Underpinning this is a passionate belief that we have the resources we need within us, and that through the meaningful connection found in a therapeutic relationship, clients can be helped to bring compassion and curiosity to themselves and their situations, including those parts that we are afraid or ashamed of. His approach is both “outside-in” (using tools and strategies to help regulate the nervous system) and “inside-out” (following the threads of story, body and emotion to uncover what’s driving the deeper patterns).

Simon has a background as a professional actor and brings spontaneity and creativity to his work with clients, while understanding from personal experience the need to find stability and resilience in the midst of an unpredictable and demanding career. He also has over a decade’s experience facilitating groups and workshops for a men’s charity, which has enabled him to develop expertise in creating a safe, supportive and transformative space in which people can grow and find meaning.