About me
Welcome
If you’re looking for professional support with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, loss, relationship issues, or periods of overwhelm, I offer a warm, grounded and collaborative therapeutic space. I specialise in helping adults navigate life changes, emotional challenges, and stuck patterns so you can move toward greater clarity, balance and wellbeing.
Areas I Support
• Anxiety, worry, fear cycles, panic and perfectionism
• Depression, low mood, anger, loss of motivation
• Bereavement, grief, life transitions, separation and adjustment
• Workplace stress, burnout, sickness absence, career or study challenges
• Relationship issues including trust, communication, betrayal, rupture and repair and power/control issues
• Emotional regulation, overwhelm and chronic stress
• Self-esteem, confidence, inner critic and identity
• Wellbeing, resilience and thriving rather than surviving
• Neurodiversity‑related themes including autism and PDA (parenting and adults)
My Therapeutic Approach
I work as an integrative, humanistic therapist, drawing from a blend of therapeutic models so our work is tailored around your unique needs. My training includes:
• CBT
• Person-Centred Therapy
• Gestalt
• Transactional Analysis
• Psychodynamic and Attachment-based approaches
This integrative model allows us to work with the whole self – thoughts, emotions, body, and lived experiences – exploring the past, present or future depending on your goals. As part of this, we may look at opposites such as depression and joy, anxiety and safety, fear and excitement, helping you reconnect with a fuller emotional range.
Clients often describe me as compassionate, down-to-earth, open, culturally sensitive and gently challenging when helpful.
I do not offer crisis support or work with clinically diagnosed emotional instability within my private practice.
Online Therapy, Telephone Counselling and Digital Support
I hold specialist training in cyber-therapy, meaning I am fully qualified to provide counselling via video, telephone, instant messaging and email. I also offer the option of integrating AI-supported tools between sessions where appropriate and agreed.
This training ensures safe, ethical and effective therapy across today’s digital platforms.
Walk and Talk therapy
I am qualified to offer talking therapy in the outdoors. This typically entails pre-agreed and planned routes structured within the 50 minute therapeutic hour.
Creative and Arts-Based Therapy
For clients aged 17+, I offer arts-based therapy as an additional route into self-expression. This may include:
• Art making (drawing, journaling, painting)
• Sandtray therapy for gaining perspective and exploring patterns
• Writing, metaphor work and narrative exploration
• Using music or film to explore emotional themes
No artistic skill is required. Creative therapy can be especially powerful when you feel stuck, overwhelmed or disconnected from your inner world. It engages right-brain emotional processing, helping bypass the inner critic and offering new ways of understanding, healing and reframing experiences.
I do not provide child or play therapy.
What to Expect in Therapy
• Care, kindness, validation and collaboration
• A safe, steady and supportive environment
• Space to explore your concerns at your pace
• A focus on what matters most to you
You’re welcome to book an introductory call to help you decide whether we’re a good fit. If I am not the right therapist for your needs, I will always signpost you to alternative support options.
Sessions are typically 50 minutes and can take place online, via telephone, email, face-to-face or outdoors. You can choose between single-session work, brief therapy (1–12 sessions) or long-term therapy (12+ sessions). There is never any obligation to continue.
Professional Background
I bring over 20 years of experience across adult mental health services, alongside a psychology degree, masters-level professional training, and professional accreditation with BACP (41101). I also work as a clinical supervisor for other therapists.
My experience includes roles such as:
• Psychotherapist in private healthcare settings
• NHS Talking Therapies – High Intensity Practitioner
• Counsellor in Higher Education
• Senior NHS Manager within adult mental health services
• Manager of wellbeing and emotional health programmes
• Clinical supervisor and team manager across multiple settings
Special Interests
• Parenting and neurodiversity (Autism, PDA)
• Relationship dynamics, connection and self‑development
• Stress reduction and restoring wellbeing
• Neuropsychology and the mind-body-heart connection
• Creative and integrative approaches to emotional healing
Training, qualifications & experience
Training
I am a trained, qualified and accredited counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor.
I have masters-level-training in Integrative Psychotherapy which is a Humanistic model of therapy. This incorporates solution focused strategies and therapy approaches (eg. CBT) as well as psychodynamic and relational models (look at impact of the past on the present and body).
I also have a degree in psychology which gives me understanding of how trauma impacts on the body/mind as well as an understanding of emotional regulation/intensity and apathy, focus/memory and concentration and childhood/adult development as well as the psychology of relationships.
I have a Diploma in Clinical Supervision both online and in-person for individuals and groups.
I qualified as an online counsellor prior to the pandemic and took an instrumental role in supporting other therapists to migrate online. I am trained to work safely and ethically online through telephone, email, chat and video formats.
I am also qualified to offer Walk and Talk therapy sessions outdoors in a pre-agreed/planned way which is often very effective when working with low mood, depression and loss.
Every year I complete ongoing training to develop my understanding, knowledge and skills. For example, I have completed specific training to work with worry, domestic violence, power/control dynamics, Austism, ADHD, grief and loss to include complicated loss.
Experience:
I have over 20 years experience of working in adult mental health and wellbeing. Here are some examples of where I have worked:
- therapeutic clinics supporting individuals experiencing psychosis
- Prison service supporting prisoners during transitions back into their communities
- with veterans adjusting to civilian life
- offering university students counselling (undergraduates through to PHD)
- Private medical insurance referrals
- Therapy for NHS patients via NHS Talking Therapy referrals for mental health (anxiety, panic, worry, low mood, depression, stress, life change, trauma and relational issues).
I am a clinical supervisor and have also been a senior manager within the NHS (Adult Mental Health - Secondary Care)
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I operate a sliding scale and am willing to consider individual circumstances and needs.
When I work
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Further information
I appreciate that picking a therapist, choosing the type of therapy and affording therapy are all huge choices and decisions. I would recommend that you take your time, ask to have brief chats with therapists whose profiles you are drawn to. Ask questions and trust your gut feeling!.
Happy to assist where possible.
