About
Adele qualified as a lawyer and practised law in both private practice and industry for around 20 years before re-training as a therapist following a particularly difficult period in her own life. She believes this has given her an insight into others’ difficulties and a depth of empathy that’s hard to obtain from any training course alone.
Adele always aims to provide a high quality, individual service to everyone she sees. She is warm, compassionate and down to earth, providing emotional and practical support throughout therapy. She works collaboratively with you to achieve your therapeutic goals. She is fortunate enough to have a wealth of experience as a therapist, working across a wide spectrum of difficulties and disorders. She regularly seeks client feedback so that she can enhance her practice and facilitate the best possible outcomes for clients. She feels privileged to be able to say that she loves her job and the opportunities it gives her to connect at depth with others and watch them grow out of their distress.
Adele provides cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), integrative therapy and person-centred therapy (counselling). She also has a particular interest in mindfulness and has trained as a meditation teacher. Some of her meditations can be found on YouTube: Priory Meditation - YouTube. Adele has also trained as an Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2) examiner and is qualified to administer tests for autism.
CAT is a structured collaborative therapy, typically conducted over 16 or 24 sessions, although it can be more or less depending on need. Adele offers CAT to enable you to identify the root cause of your difficulties by analysing your early years and relationships. She encourages you to take an active part in your therapy; you are the expert in you, and she has some skills that can help alleviate your difficulties. She will help you to understand present day problems in the context of your past so that together, we can find solutions and you can move on. CAT is often helpful where other therapies haven’t been successful, and is especially helpful where there is any emotional or physical abuse or neglect, whether current or historical.
Adele offers CBT to help clients deal with ‘here and now’ problems. CBT is a great therapy for providing clients with practical tools to navigate difficulties. Adele often combines CAT with CBT to provide a rounded therapy where clients can understand the root causes of their problems and also have tools to deal with them.
Adele offers integrative therapy to combine different modalities to fit your needs as an individual, tailoring the therapy around you. Depending on your needs, she may incorporate aspects of CAT, CBT, dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) or mindfulness into the therapy.
Adele offers person-centred counselling for issues where other therapies may not be suitable, such as bereavement and issues around loss.
Adele is available to chat with you about whether one of the therapies she offers might be suited to your needs.
Position at Priory
Adele qualified as a therapist in 2010 and joined Priory in 2020, where she works closely with other therapists and consultant psychiatrists to ensure she continues to provide the best support possible for people in her care. Before this she worked in the NHS at a local hospital and also at a busy GP practice.
Adele is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT), and an accredited therapist.
Training
- Adele attended Keele University to complete a Diploma and then a Masters’ degree in Counselling Psychology and gained a distinction.
- Adele attended Bolton University to complete a Post-Graduate diploma in CBT.
- Adele is a qualified mindfulness and meditation teacher.
- Adele really enjoys learning new things and broadening her practice and has attended various post-qualification training courses, including the DBT Skills, Regulating Emotions the DBT Way and courses on mindfulness, anger and suicide prevention.
