About me and my therapy practice

Following many years in paid and voluntary roles helping people to feel better about themselves, and connected with their community and the natural world, I trained to be a counsellor. During my own experience of counselling I learnt (and continue to learn) that I really value being listened to. Counselling helps me to work out who I am, how to be kind to myself, and how I want to live my life. I hope to offer the same opportunity to others.

Building a safe and genuine therapeutic relationship between myself and my clients is at the heart my approach, but it is not always enough to help people feel better. So in addition I offer, in collaboration with the you, a range of theories and interventions tailored to your unique needs. I am particularly interested in compassion, living a meaningful life and the role of psychoeducation.

In addition to my private practice I work at a charity offering counselling to adults who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. I have offered bereavement support at Cruse and am trained by SANDS to support parents who have experienced a baby death during pregnancy or after birth.

I have over a decade of experience in the statutory and voluntary sector empowering and counselling adults around pregnancy, birth and early parenthood, and I have a passion for supporting parents in balancing their own needs with their baby’s needs.

I am a trauma informed therapist with an interest in how the mind and body hold trauma. If you have experienced trauma, and wish to address this in counselling, we will take a paced approach to the work, starting with understanding what helps you feel safe and stable. This is very important to avoid retraumatisation. There is never an expectation that you will talk about what happened to you, but once you feel safe enough, this may be something that you want to do. Some clients prefer to focus on how the trauma is impacting their lives now, this might involve exploring triggers and understanding the brains response to trauma, and finding ways of living meaningfully with the legacy of trauma.

I am invested in being an ally to marginalised communities and am passionate about educating myself. My intention is to be anti-racist and anti-disrimination and you can see this reflected in my reading and training.

Confidentiality is essential to the therapeutic relationship and I ensure this through GDPR compliant processing of your information.

I am accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, and work to their strict ethical standards and policies.