About me
When anxiety, trauma, family conflict, or parenting challenges begin to affect daily life, it can feel overwhelming and isolating. I offer a safe, supportive space to explore difficulties, understand patterns, and develop new ways of coping.
I’m April, a clinical psychologist and mum of two. I work with both parents and children, supporting families to feel more connected, understood, and emotionally secure. I understand how messy, rewarding, and demanding family life can be and how difficult it can feel when things aren’t going the way you hoped.
I support:
Parents’ mental health: anxiety, low mood, overwhelm, intrusive thoughts, and burnout
Pregnancy and postpartum: identity changes, birth trauma, bonding, and early adjustment to parenthood
Children’s emotional wellbeing and development: big feelings, emotional regulation, behaviour, sleep, transitions, and sibling relationships
Family dynamics: communication, attachment, connection, and navigating difficult patterns within the family
Neurodiversity: autism, ADHD, sensory needs, and supporting both the child and the wider family system
Parents’ own early experiences: working through childhood wounds, trauma, and breaking intergenerational patterns
I draw on Compassion Focused Therapy, attachment-based approaches, psychodynamic thinking, internal family systems therapy informed (IFS) and EMDR for trauma. My approach is warm, thoughtful, and collaborative. I work with you, your child, or your family as a whole to understand what’s happening beneath the surface and to build practical, compassionate strategies that fit your real life.
Families often tell me they feel calmer, more confident, and more connected, with a clearer understanding of their child’s needs and their own responses.
I offer face-to-face sessions in Whitstable, Kent, as well as online therapy via Zoom.
If you’re looking for support for your child, yourself, or your family as a whole, I’d love to help you feel more grounded, supported, and connected.
If you’re ready to feel more grounded, supported, and connected- both to yourself and your child, I’d love to help you get there.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
- EMDR
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Compassion-focused therapy
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.
The HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£130.00 - £150.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Therapy session (50 Minutes): £130
Parenting support (60 Minutes): £150
