About me
A Space to Explore Relationships, Trust, and Self-Worth
Sometimes life can look fine from the outside, yet inside something feels unsettled.
You might find yourself questioning a relationship, replaying conversations in your mind, doubting your own judgement, or wondering why certain patterns keep repeating. Perhaps you've spent so long looking after other people, meeting expectations, or trying to keep everything together that you've lost touch with what you need.
If any of that feels familiar, you're not alone.
Many of the people who come to see me are carrying things they haven't felt able to share elsewhere. They may be struggling in a relationship, recovering from a painful experience, navigating a major life change, living with loss, or simply feeling exhausted from carrying so much for so long.
My role isn't to tell you what to do or offer quick answers. Instead, I aim to provide a space where you can slow down, feel heard, and begin to make sense of what's happening for you.
As a person-centred counsellor, I believe that meaningful change often begins when we feel genuinely listened to. When there is room to speak openly without judgement, pressure, or the need to be anything other than yourself, something important can start to shift.
Many of the women I work with come to therapy feeling unheard, misunderstood, or uncertain of themselves within relationships. Some are understandably hesitant about working with a male therapist. What I hope to offer is not another voice telling you what you should do, but a relationship built on respect, understanding, and curiosity about your experience.
Alongside relationship difficulties, I also work with anxiety, self-doubt, grief and loss, workplace stress and burnout, life transitions, and the impact of chronic or life-limiting illness.
Before becoming a counsellor, I spent many years running my own domestic and commercial cleaning business. It was very different work, but it taught me a great deal about people, responsibility, and the pressures that come with trying to hold everything together while life carries on around you.
I offer counselling online and in person from Alderley Edge.
You don't need to arrive with everything worked out, and you don't need to know exactly where to begin. If you're considering therapy, you're welcome to get in touch and see whether working together feels right for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
Alongside my private practice, I support clients in community and charity settings. During my training I've supported bereaved clients, clients who suffer chronic and life limiting illness and work induced stress and burnout.
- CPCAB Level 2 certificate in counselling skills
- CPCAB Level 3 certificate in counselling studies
- CPCAB Level 4 diploma in Therapeutic counselling
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
Fees
£50.00 per session
