About me
What Do I Help With?
As a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, I work with individuals, couples, and families who are navigating challenges in their close relationships. While our connections with others can be a source of strength and support, at times they can also become strained—marked by tension, conflict, or a growing sense of disconnection that can feel difficult to understand or shift.
Why Consider Family and Systemic Psychotherapy?
When one person in a family is struggling, it often affects everyone. Just as the body mobilises its resources to heal an injury, family therapy creates a space for families to come together, pause, and engage in conversations that can bring clarity and understanding. It can help you make sense of challenges, repair and heal relational strains, strengthen your connections, and support one another through difficult times.
What Is Family and Systemic Psychotherapy?
Family and Systemic Psychotherapy—also known as Family Therapy—is a specialist approach focused on understanding the dynamics within relationships. It also explores how life events such as illness, loss, separation, and/or trauma, to name but a few, can influence how we relate to one another. Further, it works effectively with the diverse range of mental health difficulties someone may present with that may also be contributing to relationship distress.
Do You Offer Trauma-Focused Therapy?
In addition to family therapy, I have further specialist training in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). This is a trauma-focused approach that can support individuals processing recent or past events that have been experienced as a trauma and which continue to cause emotional pain or overwhelm.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I am a qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist with over 16 years of experience working therapeutically with individuals, couples, and families across both the NHS and community sectors. I currently oversee a dedicated family therapy service within a community organisation in Northern Ireland, providing clinical oversight and delivering specialist systemic interventions.
Qualifications
• MSc Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (with Commendation)
• MSc Applied Psychology in Mental Health (with Distinction)
• BSc (Hons) Psychology (2:1)
Additional Therapeutic Training
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Solution-Focused Brief 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 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
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 - £90.00
Additional information
Therapy Types and Fees
Individual Therapy
Involves one person attending sessions, and they will likely remain the sole participant throughout the therapy process.
Fee: £75 per session
Couples Therapy
Most sessions involve both partners, though individual sessions may be helpful at times however this would still be within the context of couples therapy. Fee: £85 per session
Family Therapy
Involves two or more family members attending together. This may include working with the whole family or different parts of the family system at different times (e.g. parents only; parent and child; siblings) depending on greatest need.
Fee: £90 per session
The Initial Session for each of the above types of therapy is charged at a flat rate of £50.
When I work
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Morning:
7:45–8:45 am
9:00–10:00 am
10:15–11:15 am
11:30–12:30 pm
Afternoon:
12:45–1:45 pm
2:00–3:00 pm
3:15–4:15 pm
Evening:
4:30–5:30 pm
5:45–6:45 pm
Night:
7:00–8:00 pm
8:15–9:15 pm
