About me
Are you grieving, anxious, overwhelmed, trying to recover from trauma or struggling with day to day life? No one was supposed to do this alone. Making time to slow down & reconnect with our selves and our natural world can help us find our way, even when it seems impossible.
It is a human need to reach out and connect and our relationships have a huge impact on our lives. They might be with other people, with ourselves, our bodies and nervous systems, or with our society and the natural world we are part of. These connections give us so much potential to learn and grow, but may also have led to us being hurt.
We are living at a time when it can feel like everything is breaking down, whether that is the natural world and the climate, or society and the systems we once thought we could rely on. This is on top of the everyday realities of life, with its challenges, responsibilities and loss.
Working Together
Together we can slow down, explore how you are impacted by all of this, and what you need to move forward in the way that feels right to you. I offer a warm welcome to whatever it is you bring.
I am not here to offer you easy answers or tell you which direction you should go, but I can help you to find your own internal compass and re-connect with the parts of you that have gotten lost or stuck.
I can offer a variety of approaches to aid this, including, nervous system regulation, creative writing, working with different parts of ourselves, understanding the cycles of life and how they impact, grounding or mindfulness and self-compassion. We may use one, all, or none of these. You are the expert on your life and your experiences, and we may simply spend time with what is coming up for you.
I offer nature-based sessions in Derbyshire, UK. Allestree Park in Derby offers wide open spaces or woodland, where we can easily take a short walk and find a good spot to pause and explore. Alternatively, I can also meet you at more private, nature-based locations, either near Kedleston Hall or Fritchley.
I also work online or indoors at Backs and Bones in Allestree and Matlock Therapy Centre when the weather makes it difficult to be outside or if that suits you better.
Sessions usually last an hour. I currently have some availability, weekday daytimes and early evenings, so get in touch to discuss.
I hope this gives you a flavour of how I work. I know it can feel a daunting process choosing a therapist, so I offer an initial free 20-30 min connection online or over the phone, so you can decide if I feel like the right fit to work with you.
Training, qualifications & experience
An accredited and qualified Integrative Counselling Psychotherapist, I work in a relational, holistic, nature and trauma informed way. I have been holding space, for people to meet the challenges life brings and grow, for over 25 years.
Endlessly curious about humankind, how I work has been shaped by my own experiences of grief, motherhood, recovering from perfectionism and burnout, finding how to live well with a chronic illness and starting to understand and resist the oppressive systems we all live in. I have a deep gratitude for the natural world and the healing I have found through reconnecting with it and the cyclical nature of life.
I work with the Climate Psychology Alliance and Parents for Future delivering Climate Circles, training facilitators and supporting parents involved in activism. I am also a writer and poet and am currently developing a Nature Journal course. For those who want to slow down and explore the connection between themselves and nature more deeply.
The areas mentioned below are some of the things I have had training in or some experience of working with, but every individual is a complex whole, and I am interested in your story and what makes you unique.
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£55.00 per session
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