About me
Life can feel exhausting when you’ve spent years surviving rather than truly living. Trauma doesn’t always come from one obvious event. It can develop through difficult childhood experiences, unhealthy or abusive relationships, loss, rejection, emotional neglect, instability, or simply spending years feeling unsafe, unheard or having to adapt yourself to cope.
I specialise in working with trauma and the lasting impact it can have on how we think, feel, relate to others and experience ourselves. You may know exactly what has happened to you, or you may simply recognise the effects — anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutting down, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, difficulties with relationships, low self-worth, anger, dissociation, or feeling disconnected from who you used to be.
I am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with a BSc (Hons) in Integrative Counselling. My approach is trauma-informed, relational and integrative, drawing on psychodynamic and humanistic therapy alongside attachment theory and neuroscience.
Our work isn’t only about revisiting what happened. We look at what your mind and body learned to do in order to survive it, why those responses may still be happening now, and how we can begin to create something different.
This might involve understanding triggers and patterns, developing emotional regulation, exploring attachment and relationships, recognising protective responses such as fight, flight, freeze or fawn, and gradually making sense of experiences that may previously have felt overwhelming or difficult to put into words.
I believe trauma therapy needs to feel safe, containing and purposeful. I won’t push you to disclose experiences before you are ready, and therapy does not have to mean repeatedly reliving painful events. We work at a pace that feels manageable, balancing deeper therapeutic exploration with practical ways of helping you feel safer and more grounded in the present.
I work with adults and young people experiencing the effects of trauma, including childhood and developmental trauma, relationship and attachment trauma, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, narcissistic and controlling relationships, bereavement and difficult life experiences.
My aim is not simply to help you cope with what happened, but to help you understand how it has shaped you — and support you in moving towards a life that is no longer organised around surviving it.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have experience in the following areas:
- Addiction & Drug/Alcohol Abuse
- Relationship difficulties
- Childhood Abuse & Trauma
- Domestic Violence
- Trauma
- Self Esteem
- Depression & Anxiety
- Grief & Loss
- Eating Disorders
- Self Harm
- OCD & Perfectionism
- PTSD
- Anger Management
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Personality Disorders
- Suicide
- Rape & Sexual Assault
- Personal Growth
- Self Care Management
- Sexuality Difficulties
- 16-19 Year Old Care Transitions
- Dealing with Lifelong Health Conditions
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 UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£65 per hour - Consultation is free (15 minutes)
(Book online https://www.bsl-counselling.com/book-online)
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