About me
I am an integrative counsellor working with adults, children (10+) and young people, offering a warm, supportive space where you can begin to heal and strengthen the relationships in your life — whether that’s the relationship with yourself, with others, or with the world around you.
With a background in parent–child communication, attachment, and intergenerational trauma, I support people who may be struggling with anger, anxiety, attachment issues, depression, developmental trauma, family challenges, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and many other painful or confusing experiences. These difficulties often take root in our relationships and, in turn, can have a deep impact on how we relate to ourselves and to those around us. Often these difficulties leave us feeling rejected, disconnected, misunderstood, or alone. Together, we can begin to understand these patterns with compassion, creating space for healing.
Deeply valuing the therapeutic relationship, I believe that feeling safe, seen, and accepted in therapy is at the heart of meaningful change. We will move at a pace that feels right for you, working together to help you understand yourself more fully and to feel more secure, connected and fulfilled in your relationships.
Because every person is unique, I draw on a range of psychological approaches, thoughtfully tailoring our work to what feels most helpful and impactful for you. With adults and young people, we explore experiences through conversation and creative ways that help express what may be hard to put into words. With children, play becomes a gentle and natural pathway for exploration, expression, and healing.
I support clients who have a diagnosis of or suspect they may have autism.
I work online and offer short-term and long-term counselling depending on your needs. I work in a non-judgemental and respectful way regardless of your gender, race, religion, age, abilities, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or its absence.
I am a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP).
I am also a qualified Non Violent Resistance (NVR) practitioner and deliver NVR training for parents/carers of violent and self-destructive children. As an NVR practitioner, my purpose is to help you, as a parent/carer, to defuse violence and aggression in your family and rebuild the relationship with your child/young person. I am a registered member of NVR UK and NVR Association.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have counselling experience and work in the following areas of counselling: abandonment, adult anxiety, adult depression, anger, attachment trauma, autism, bereavement including infant loss, bullying, childhood anxiety, childhood depression, child-to-parent violence, developmental trauma, dyslexia, emotional abuse, exam stress, family relationship issues, generalised anxiety disorder, guilt, intergenerational trauma, low self-esteem, misophonia, panic attacks, parenting issues, self-harm, sensory processing disorder, separation anxiety, shame, sleep problems, social anxiety disorder, spiritual issues, stress, suicidal ideation, toilet anxiety, trauma/PTSD.
My work experience includes working as an adult, children and young people counsellor in private practice and at Crossways Counselling Service in Surrey, working as a Place2Be children and young people counsellor in a primary and a secondary schools in London, working as a Non Violent Resistance practitioner with Guildford CAMHS, working with parents as a parent educator as part of Anastasia Seale Infinity Parent Coaching. I also worked as a finance/corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith, BP and MFB solicitors.
Qualifications:
- BA (Hons) Counselling (Integrative)
- Level 5 Children and Young People Counselling (Integrative)
- Level 2 Non Violent Resistance (NVR) Practitioner
- Level 2 Understanding Autism
- Dip HE Counselling
- Postgraduate Diploma in Law
- BA (Hons) Business Administration
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
Fees
£70.00 - £120.00
When I work
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Further information
I have additional training in parenting communication skills and spiritual issues.
I offer a 20 minute free consultation during which you and I can discuss what brings you to counselling and address any queries you have relating to the way I work.
