How I can help you

I work with adults experiencing a wide range of challenges. My approaches and theories, being pluralistic and integrative, are naturally very diverse as I bring the psychotherapeutic approaches and psychological theories that might best benefit you at any given moment.

As I am person-centred and humanistic, while I may have access to many professional theories, I believe you are the expert of you and a part of you will know where you need to be going and who you need to become. My role is to hold up metaphorical mirrors to facilitate that journey.

Areas I specialise in

Fertility, pregnancy and parenthood

I specialise in supporting clients with fertility issues, IVF, birth trauma and child loss, having trained with the Foundation for Infant Loss Training. I support many women before, through pregnancy and post-partum.

I also offer support and training in parenting and secure attachment issues and relationship challenges when becoming a parent or choosing to be child free.

Grief and loss

I have substantial experience of working with grief and loss in its many forms, either in the death of a loved one or the end of a relationship, or a lifestyle, and trying to come to terms with the grieving for a life as well as a partner.

Anxiety and related issues

I work with anxiety and depression in many different forms, from panic attacks, OCD, emetophobia, social anxiety, death anxiety and generalised anxiety.

Relationships and attachment

I also work with themes of rejection and abandonment in all their forms. I have undertaken training in Mother and daughter attachment theory.

I am currently training on a couple's certificate, working with conflict, meeting partner's needs, affairs and communication and difference.

Neurodivergence

Although being neurotypical myself, I have substantial experience of working with many forms of neurodivergence and I regularly undertake training and professional development to support a diagnosis, or your experience of being in a neurotypical world and the challenges and disadvantages that may bring.

I have undertaken professional development in neurodivergence including Autism and ADHD.

I work most regularly with self-esteem, self-worth, self-confidence and the critical voice to build these elusive parts of our identity. I work a great deal exploring perfectionist traits, people-pleasing, over-thinking and ruminations.

Identity and self-worth

My training and approaches

My training is Integrative which means that I am familiar with a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches and psychological theories. I can draw on different approaches to counselling, as and when we feel them to be most beneficial to you at different stages in your therapy and in our relationship.

My strengths are particularly working with:

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) coupled with Attachment Theory, Inner Child work and mindfulness

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) - I am trained in EMDR and I am practised in working with Attachment Focused EMDR. EMDR is an evidence based and highly successful psychotherapy treatment that will help you to process and recover from traumatic past experiences that are affecting your mental health and wellbeing in the present. [Learn more about EMDR therapy]

Gestalt interventions - helping you to become more aware of your thoughts, feelings and behaviours in the present moment

Transactional Analysis Theory - understanding patterns of communication and relationship dynamics

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) - goal-setting and working towards specific outcomes where appropriate

Psychodynamic approaches - including Shadow work, exploring unconscious patterns and early experiences

These approaches are supplemented by mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS) training, working with ego states, parts work and dissociation.

Additional professional development

I have undertaken professional development in:

• Polyvagal theory

• Somatic Body release for anger and trauma

• Mindfulness training

• Basic training in IFS (Internal Family Systems)

• Working with ego states, parts work and dissociation

• Pink training in defining gender, sex and relationship diversity working with LGBTQIA+ issues

• Training in race, prejudice and my part in the issues of difference and diversity

• Mother and daughter attachment theory

• Couples work (currently training on a couple's certificate)

Diversity and inclusion

I have substantial experience and demonstrate respect for differences in all nationalities, religions and spiritualities, cultures and races, sexualities, genders, and sexual preferences, and I am LGBTQIA+ affirmative. I am proud to have substantial experience of working with many of these distinctions and honour the work and differences between myself and you as the client.

As I work humanistically and with compassionate non-judgement, I will be working with you as the individual in front of me in the therapy room and I regularly do training in all these areas of diversity to keep challenging my blind spots, assumptions, potential prejudice, power and inherent privilege.

Intersectionality and social context

I appreciate the intersectionality of social identity and aim to promote social awareness and to challenge potential interlocking systems of oppression as they interact and overlap to create unique forms of discrimination and disadvantage as you may experience them, outside or potentially re-enacting in the therapy room.

I believe in the importance of therapy being held in the wider external system of society and its limiting potential should you as a client wish to explore this backdrop.

What clients say

They talk about experiencing a sense of release, gaining clarity, feeling stronger, and becoming more confident in themselves, their abilities and everything they have to offer. You can simply be curious about yourself with me and try to re-find and re-connect with the truest form of yourself.

Who I work with

I truly believe in supporting you to embrace your authentic self, to grow, and to thrive as the person you really are. As you can see from my testimonials, clients often share that they feel truly seen, heard, and connected with, and this allows a deeper sense of self-acceptance and self-actualisation.