Our TEAM

Therapy Team

Nicky

Head of Therapy

Kate

Placement Counsellor

Wendy

Placement Counsellor

Grant

Placement Counsellor

Join The Team

Sportfit is looking for dynamic individuals seeking a career working with children and young people.  They should be resilient, nurturing in nature, dynamic and active, and enjoy working as part of a close-knit team who are committed to providing each young person with a safe and supportive environment where their needs are put first.

Nicky

Head of Therapy

I believe that our actions are words and that through our behaviours, we are communicating a message. To hear this message, I put the individual at the centre of their own therapy, reducing toxic emotions such as fear, threat, and shame. I believe this is the gateway to communication and feeling truly heard. 

My counselling work in substance misuse started when I first encountered young people who were at the beginning of their drug or alcohol usage. I have witnessed the devastating effects caused to client’s and their families by substance misuse and have been part of the rehabilitation procedure which involved CAMHs, the Early Intervention Psychosis team and Social Workers.  

The Person-Centred approach creates a feeling of safety and trust within the therapeutic relationship. I am committed to ensuring that I hold a non-judgemental space for dialogue, where thoughts, feelings and emotions may be explored without fear of being directed onto a path which does not make personal sense. 

Kate

Placement Counsellor

My name is Kate, and I am currently studying at City College Southampton for a BA Hons in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy. 

I feel passionate about the Person-Centred approach, I feel it is so important to have a trusted, confidential space to explore together what is happening in a person’s world. Sometimes being truly listened to, can be the first step along the path to unravelling anything that may be troubling a person. 

Wendy

Placement Counsellor

Hi, I am Wendy. 

With a strong desire to help make a difference in the lives of others, I felt encouraged to enter the field of counselling where I was immediately drawn to Carl Roger’s ‘Person-Centred Approach.’ I am studying for a BA(Hons) in Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy at City College in Southampton. 

I trust with the desired environment and a warm understanding and acceptance, a person will feel free to explore experiences, at their own pace, to discover a more satisfying way of being. I believe we all have the necessary tools within ourselves to work towards solving our own problems.  

Through relationships and in society, we can become disconnected from ourselves, being made to feel isolated or not good enough. In the therapeutic relationship, I feel this damage can be reversed and the results transformative. 

Grant

Placement Counsellor

My name is Grant, and I am a Person-Centred Therapist.  I am also a dad, Husband, Writer, ex ‘Corporate Suit,’ Skier, Camper Van lover and Egalitarian. I have been many things over the last 50 years, and I believe that these experiences have helped to shape me and led me to the Humanist approach to psychotherapy and in particular the work of Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach.  

I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and I am studying a BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) accredited BA (Hons) degree course in Person-Centred counselling and psychotherapy.  

Through my own experience I have witnessed the simple power of someone being truly heard and accepted for who they are within a safe environment. It is here that change can happen and we can unburden ourselves from the views and opinions of others and start to discover our true selves – Wonderful, Unique and Amazing Human beings. For me, the Person-Centred Approach is not a skill you learn or something that you teach, but an immersive way of being and living the best life.