About me
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re seeking mental health support or trying to manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or emotional overwhelm. A helpful first step is to read through my profile and notice the thoughts and feelings that arise. Does anything resonate? If so, you might start by arranging a brief phone conversation to explore how it feels to connect with me. Or, if it feels right, you can go ahead and book an initial therapy session.
Research consistently shows that lasting therapeutic change happens when the therapeutic relationship feels safe, supportive, and attuned. If I’m not the right therapist for you, that’s absolutely fine—what matters is that you find someone who fits your needs. So, let’s explore whether we may be a good match in your journey toward wellbeing and emotional healing.
I am a regulated psychotherapist accredited by the BACP. My therapeutic approach is Integrative, blending three recognised and evidence-based therapy modalities: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Attachment Theory, and Person-Centred Therapy. This allows me to provide a flexible and client-centred approach tailored to a wide range of mental-health concerns, including anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties, burnout, workplace stress, and trauma. I hold a Master’s-level qualification and have over 12 years of clinical experience. I also bring more than 30 years of experience in mainstream education as a child and young person’s behaviour specialist, including 10 years as an Early Years Behaviour Consultant within a local authority.
You will enter a safe, nurturing, and confidential therapy space where you are genuinely seen and heard. Together, we will explore your experiences to develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and psychological insight. We will consider different perspectives, compassionately challenge unhelpful thought patterns or core beliefs, and work gently with the emotions that arise. Therapy offers dedicated time and space to talk freely about what brings you here while building resilience, coping strategies, and mental-health skills, engaging with useful psychoeducational resources, and deepening your understanding of your inner world.
Sessions last 60 minutes and take place in a private, dedicated therapy room that clients describe as warm, safe, and comfortable—a calming environment ideal for trauma-informed therapy, reflective work, and emotional processing.
Every session is personalised around your unique needs—your time, your space, your pace. This is a bespoke, human-centred service, not a standardised or automated approach. My role is to guide you with warmth, empathy, and without judgment as we explore the issues and life experiences you bring. Using a range of therapeutic tools, techniques, and evidence-based interventions, I help you understand your thought patterns, process your emotions safely, and become curious about your behaviours. Together, we identify recurring themes, internal and external triggers, and deeper links that help uncover your core beliefs about yourself, others, and the world. This process develops both self-awareness and emotional intelligence, supporting long-term growth, insight, self-compassion, and meaningful, lasting change.
As an Integrative therapist, I skillfully weave together Attachment Theory, Person-Centred Therapy, and CBT to create a holistic and flexible therapeutic approach. This means you can access the form of counselling or psychotherapy that best suits your personality, needs, and mental-health goals.
I believe that people often hold an innate capacity for healing and inner wisdom, but life experiences, trauma, and stress can disconnect us from it. Counselling helps support that reconnection.
Over the past 12 years, I have worked in both the charity sector and private practice, supporting a diverse range of individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and identities. My work has included assessments, formulations, one-to-one therapy, small-group interventions, and multi-agency collaboration to support holistic wellbeing.
All therapy aims, goals, and outcomes are jointly set, regularly reviewed, and adapted, ensuring a collaborative therapeutic process and a trusted, reliable therapeutic partnership. This supports you in developing long-term tools for mental-health maintenance, emotional well-being, and psychological resilience.
To get started, you’re welcome to text or email me to arrange a brief introductory call or simply book a session—whichever feels right for you. I offer flexible appointment times Monday to Friday, including daytime and early evening sessions. You can come weekly, fortnightly, monthly, or in a way that suits your circumstances and finances.
I look forward to hearing from you and supporting your journey toward improved well-being, clarity, and positive change.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have close to 30 years experience of working within the field of education and counselling. I am DBS checked and Accredited with the regulating body of counsellors and psychotherapists - www.bacp.co.uk/
The breadth of my initial knowledge and skill was gained from paid employment within the early year’s sector, primary and secondary schools and a further education college. This led into 10 years of consultancy work for the local authority. www.linkedin.com
Running latterly in parallel to my work in education has been my counselling practice for eight years. In addition to working for myself, I have delivered therapy in voluntary and paid establishments working with children, young people and adults (men and women) - Place2Be, Sure Start, Derby Women's Work, Safe Speak (Relate), and mainstream and virtual school.
Clients' feedback that they look forward to the sessions and find each visit beneficial. Measures document positive levels of change. People say they find my approach to be calming, caring, friendly and warm. Clients often comment positively on the way I speak, my accent and how I don't talk like a 'therapist'.
- MSc Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
- PGCE Behaviour and Education
- BA (Hons) Sociology
- NNEB - Diploma in Nursery Nursing
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Attachment to key adults in our early years sets up patterns of behaviour and understanding of ourselves and others as we move through our personal life, career and relationships with others. Triggers or raw spots can be activated by events, people or situations that make understanding and managing our emotions challenging to navigate. This can make us feel stuck or trapped in a cycle that brings distress and loss and behaviour that serve to hold us back from achieving our potential.
I am passionate about the application of the theory of Attachment and work with it to create an understanding of our basic needs in everyday activities, what are the emotional triggers and why linking that into the development of positive or negative coping strategies in children, teens and adults and the role they play today for you.
I have an extensive and practical knowledge of certificated parenting skills and children’s behaviour relating the Webster Stratton - Early Years and Accredited Mellow Parenting programme. I am able to provide support in this area separate from therapy to individuals and couples.
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£60.00 per hour session payable by BACS on booking or cash by agreement.
When I work
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Sessions are available on weekdays and early evenings.
Get started by texting or emailing to set up a free brief phone chat before booking or you can simple request to book a session.
Further information
All my practice hours are supervised and delivered in line with the BACP's ethical code of practice.
This provides you with quality assurance.
