About me
Are you struggling with the emotional weight of pregnancy, becoming a mother or parenthood?
Perhaps you expected to feel happy, content or at least okay, but instead you feel anxious, overwhelmed, low or unlike yourself. You may be finding motherhood much harder than you expected while feeling that everyone else seems to be coping. You might be exhausted from holding everything together, struggling to connect with your baby, or wondering where the person you were before motherhood has gone.
Perhaps you're experiencing thoughts or feelings that are difficult to talk about. You may be having intrusive thoughts about something happening to your baby, feeling frightened by your own thoughts, or experiencing anxiety that seems impossible to switch off. You might be struggling after a difficult birth, pregnancy loss or fertility journey. Sometimes the hardest part is the shame of feeling that you should be happier.
I am a counsellor and psychotherapist specialising in perinatal and postnatal mental health, with experience supporting mothers through the emotional challenges of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. I can support you with postnatal depression and anxiety, postpartum anxiety, postnatal OCD and intrusive thoughts, birth trauma, pregnancy loss, parenting burnout, identity changes and difficulties adjusting to motherhood.
We live in a culture with strong ideas about what a mother should feel and be. When your experience doesn't match that picture, shame, guilt and self-doubt can quickly follow. Therapy offers a space where you don't have to perform motherhood or reassure anyone that you're coping. We can make room for the difficult, contradictory and sometimes unexpected feelings that can come with becoming a mother.
Together, we can explore what you're experiencing, how it is affecting your relationship with yourself, your baby and the people around you, and what might be happening underneath the anxiety, low mood or overwhelm. Sometimes you may need practical ways to manage difficult symptoms; at other times, we may need to slow down and understand where these feelings have come from and what they might be communicating.
My aim isn't to tell you how you should feel about motherhood, but to help you develop a more authentic relationship with yourself and your experience of being a mother. Over time, therapy can help you reconnect with parts of yourself that may have felt lost, and begin to recover a sense of spark, aliveness and hope.
I offer short- and long-term therapy, both online and in person in West London (Richmond/Chiswick) and North London, (Queens Park).
If any of this resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an MSc in Psychology, with a dissertation focused on maternal anxiety and parental stress. I am currently completing advanced clinical training in psychotherapy and expect to complete my training and achieve UKCP registration in December 2026. My current clinical research focuses on mothers’ experiences of intrusive thoughts during the perinatal period.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
My clinical experience includes working in NHS inpatient and perinatal mental health settings, alongside specialist charity work supporting parents and families affected by trauma. Prior to becoming a therapist, I held senior roles in professional corporate environments, giving me an understanding of the particular pressures that can come with balancing work, relationships, family life and parenthood.
Alongside my clinical work, I have contributed to published academic research relating to the perinatal period. My work appears in the peer-reviewed publication:
Understanding the impact of perinatal experiences on parental mental health — Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health / Journal of Child Psychology.
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).
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Fees
£70.00 - £90.00
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Additional information
I offer in-person therapy in Richmond/Chiswick and Queen’s Park, London, with the possibility of sessions in other areas of London depending on availability. I also offer online therapy.
Alongside one-to-one sessions in a consulting room, I offer walk-and-talk therapy in local parks, including Richmond Park and Queen’s Park. This can be a flexible option for mothers with young babies, allowing you to talk while walking with a pram and spending time outdoors.
If you're unsure which option would suit you best, I'm happy to discuss the different possibilities when you get in touch.
Further information
I offer a warm, confidential and non-judgemental space where you can speak openly about your experiences. Sessions provide time to slow down and reflect on what you may be going through, particularly during periods of emotional transition such as pregnancy, the postnatal period and early parenthood.
I work with adults and parents, offering both in-person and online sessions. Some clients come for shorter-term support around a particular difficulty, such as birth trauma, anxiety, intrusive thoughts or difficulties adjusting to parenthood. Others choose to engage in longer-term therapy to explore deeper patterns, relationships and experiences that may be affecting how they feel and relate to themselves and others.
My approach is collaborative and relational. I won't simply tell you what to do or provide a quick fix; instead, we can work together to understand what is happening for you and what you might need. Where practical support is helpful, we can also focus on ways of managing difficult thoughts, feelings or symptoms.
If you're unsure whether counselling might be helpful for you, you're very welcome to get in touch for an initial conversation.
