About me
Your patterns used to make sense.
My room is the room to make sense of them, with someone alongside you for the work.
We’re all shaped by different experiences, so it’s important to me that therapy is tailored to you. Therapy should be as unique as the person seeking it.
I work with people who have had enough of a story about themselves that was never quite fair. The man who's been called "difficult" and is frightened by his own behaviour. The person who is no longer part of the family they grew up in, and is living with the particular grief of no longer belonging where they thought they did. The woman who has been told, with the very best of intentions, to just leave her abusive partner, when the reality is far more complicated than that. Maybe you’re the person who has achieved everything and feels nothing. The one everyone describes as "strong" or “sensible" but who privately feels terribly alone. Or maybe you’re the person who is exhausted in a way that no amount of rest seems to fix, and has stopped being sure whose life they're living.
While my work is rooted in Person-Centred values — meaning you're always at the heart of our work — I also know that healing isn’t a one-size-fits-all journey. What is more important for you to know is that it is relational. That means the thing that changes you isn't a technique — it's being properly seen by someone who isn't scared of what you bring. I trained originally in a person-centred approach, which basically means I trust you to know your own life better than anyone else does. But the beliefs we carry about ourselves aren't always fair or accurate. Parts of us can grow loud and overblown, stuck in a job that made sense once, and they can bring us to a place of real distress. So alongside the listening, I'll gently question those parts with you. My job isn't to fix you, but to be honestly present while you work out what's true. Over the years I've added to my training: how the body holds what the mind can't always articulate, how early relationships shape the ones we keep choosing, and how most of us are carrying "parts" of ourselves we've disowned because someone, somewhere, told us they weren't acceptable.
Above all, I aim to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and supported — a space where real, meaningful change can happen at your own pace. For 50 minutes each week I want to know about you.
How we begin
I no longer do initial phone calls. Instead, I offer a short first session, free of charge, so we can both find out — properly, in the room or online — whether I'm the right therapist for you. Fit matters more in this work than almost anything else, and that's hard to judge in a five-minute call. It's easier in person.
What is the next step?
Feel free to send me an email or text to book your introductory session and we'll go from there.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Level 5 Diploma in Somatic Trauma therapy (CPBAB)
- Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (CPBAB)
- Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies, Bedford College
- Level 2 Certificate Counselling Skills, Bedford College
- Online & Telephone Counselling Training (Open University Open Learn Create)
- Certificate in Safeguarding from Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Adults Board
Continuing Professional Development
- Psychodynamic Theory online course
- Working with Shame workshop with Christiane Sanderson
- Working with Neurodiversity in the therapy room workshop with Christiane Sanderson
- Counselling in a time of trauma with Zoe Lodrick
- Polyvagal Theory workshop SAASSBMK
- Pyschotropic Drugs SAASSBMK
- Mindfulness SAASSBMK
- Working with Shame/ Working with Relational Trauma, dealing with Disorganised Attachment/ Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice/ Trauma and the Body, Dissociation and Somatisation/ Child Sexual Abuse - Carolyn Spring
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
£60.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
If you are thinking about working with me, each session is structured to last for fifty minutes, with a session fee of £60, payable in advance. I conduct these sessions in a comfortable fourth-floor therapy room situated in the heart of Central Milton Keynes. In some circumstances I can offer online work.
When I work
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My availability sometimes changes and I can be quite flexible so please feel free to contact me as I'm sure we can find a time to suit us both.
