About me
Cancer and illness support - bereavement and loss - mental health worries such as anxiety, depression, loss and change. Support to mental health workers diagnosed with cancer.
Neurodivergent clients welcome.
LGBTQIA+ Clients welcome.
I am the cancer therapist who got cancer.
If you are affected by cancer in any way, I may be the person to help you. I have over ten years of experience working in this specialism and in 2025 I became a patient too. I am a human-being like you who has travelled the cancer journey.
I am confident I can help if you are the patient or you have supported a loved one through their cancer. Sadly, you may have been bereaved because of cancer. You may be struggling to cope with the death of your loved one.
I understand the pathways from diagnosis, all the individualised treatment plans and what happens when the medical stuff stops and fear kicks-in? The thoughts don't stop after the medical appointments stop. How do you live after cancer?
Prior to my diagnosis, I had a thriving business helping people with cancer. I would like to help professionals too, those who are also now stopped in their tracks by cancer; this includes therapists and counsellors.
I can help with your ongoing mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression or relationship breakdowns. It doesn't have to be due to illness. We're all humans and it can be really (*insert swear word*) tough at times.
If you would like the most human, honest and knowledgeable support to help process the trauma and recovery from life issues, you will get a warm, sensitive response and there will be humour, because even in the tough times we can use our humour to deal with the gloom.
Training, qualifications & experience
Before qualifying as a counsellor, I was volunteering for a bereavement charity. I really learned how to have a human to human relationship when speaking to people about bereavement. Having gone through bereavement without any support myself, I wanted to help make sure this didn't happen for others.
I worked for the NHS in a cancer department. Speaking to each cancer patient, they each had their own version of the impact it had on them - the shock, the grief and how it affects their loved ones. I've learned not to make any assumptions about people in light of their diagnosis. The safest and most respectable thing I could do for them is tend to them as a fellow human. In 2025 I became a cancer patient and I experienced lots of treatment.
Having cancer and lots of loss is something that informs my work and just as I have done, there is a way to recover your well-being and make sense of it all.
My qualifications were complete in 2022, with a BA (Hons) in Therapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy.
BACP Registered - Number 00906507
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Discount for students of therapy, NHS and all blue light workers including military personnel. If you are unemployed through illness, please ask.
Book a single session to meet me to see if the connection is there as a 'human to human' before making further commitments. Therapy ranges from single sessions, short-term or long-term. We'll make a plan for you and we will review number of sessions as we go along. Ideally, we'd plan your ending of therapy too.
How to meet - Face to face in a Cambridgeshire garden therapy room or telephone, video, outdoor nature and/or walking therapy - home visits can be offered to anyone with a disability or wheelchair users.
Parking and separate toilet for visitors.
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Further information
How I can help you - this is my formula for our therapeutic relationship and successful counselling work:
- I'm not a higher authority on who you are just because I have done the training.
- I listen to what you bring forward.
- I'm only a human, as are you.
- I use my personal experience of life, not just my qualifications.
- Life challenges us to constantly evolve and change.
Just a reminder, bereavement and loss doesn't only extend to losing loved ones. Relationships and different phases of life involve these too, or anxiety and depression can be a sign that you're going through something.
THERAPY ROOM - A private, confidential room in a large garden.
OUTDOOR AND NATURE THERAPY - If you wish to work outdoors in nature, I have beautiful venues from my therapy room or mutual venues in Peterborough or Huntingdon.
HOME VISITS - To support those with access needs, I will offer home visits in Huntingdonshire for the same fee. Visits wider than Huntingdonshire will have a mileage cost. There are great benefits for you being able to access therapy in your own home especially if you have a medical health concern.
