About me
At my private therapy room tucked away upstairs at Cedar Farm in Mawdesley, Lancashire (or online), you’ll find a space where you can take a breath, talk freely and start feeling like yourself again. I’ll help you untangle what’s going on so you can feel calmer and more in control. For individuals 18+
Services Provided
Services are bookable 60-minute appointments for planned non-urgent therapy. There are flexible ways to work together, prioritising your choices and individual preferences.
Person-Centred Talking Therapy (Counselling): 60 minutes to slow down, explore what’s on your mind, and be deeply heard without judgement. Face to face, online or telephone.
Walk & Talk Therapy: Side-by-side outdoor sessions in nature, where movement and being outdoors can help ease the intensity of traditional face-to-face work. (Well-behaved dogs are very welcome to join us!)
Single Session - Room to Reflect: A dedicated, standalone 60-minute session acting as a reflective sounding board for a proactive life, career, or wellbeing check-in - with no requirement for ongoing therapy.
Optional Creative Approaches: The use of simple creative mediums - such as writing, arts materials, collage, sound, or metaphor - to safely explore emotions when words feel hard to find. (No artistic skill required!)
Areas of Support:
- Managing depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout
- Navigating chronic illness, health changes, and identity loss
- Processing grief, relationship breakdowns, estrangement, and life changes
- Recovery from abuse and trauma
- Reconnecting with self-compassion, balance, and purpose
Let Me Help You Take the First Step into Therapy
I offer a free intro call (book a time slot on my profile and I'll call you back), or email / message me. Find photos of my therapy room and find out more about how I work on my website www.roomtobeyou.co.uk
In our first full session, we work at your pace to explore your hopes for therapy, talk about any specific needs or preferences you have, and find out what feels safe and helpful for you. To make sure you feel completely clear and supported, we go through a simple Working Agreement and seperate Privacy Policy, so you know exactly what to expect from our time together and how I keep your information safe and confidential. My Privacy Policy is available on my website.
Training, qualifications & experience
Before establishing my private practice, Room To Be You at Cedar Farm, I trained and worked in public health in the NHS. This gave me a deep understanding of how our surroundings - our upbringing, culture, family, relationships, work situation, housing, and life stresses - shape our physical and mental well-being. Today, this means that by seeing the full picture of your life, we can look at what you're carrying with true context and self-compassion, working with you as a person, not as a condition.
Wanting to work directly with what makes us uniquely human on an individual level, led to a deeper focus on mental health and wellbeing, culminating in a Master’s Degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling with Creative Approaches from Edge Hill University. Following this, I gained professional registration as a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Registration number: 415625.
Today, in addition to my private practice at Cedar Farm, I remain committed to local community therapy - providing trauma-informed counselling for women navigating hardship and domestic abuse at Chorley Women’s Centre, as well as supporting clients from all backgrounds referred through NHS Talking Therapies with a counselling provider in West Lancashire.
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
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Therapies offered
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Fees
£40.00 - £50.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Standard Fee: £50 per 60-minute session
Concessionary Fee: £40 per 60-minute session
Block Booking: 10% discount when paying for 4 or more sessions in advance (available on standard fee bookings only).
When I work
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Further information
About Cedar Farm, Mawdesley
Located in the heart of the lovely rural Lancashire countryside in Mawdesley, Cedar Farm is a vibrant yet peaceful destination housed in beautifully converted traditional farm buildings. My therapy room, Room To Be You can be found on the upstairs mezzanine level of The Barn. My intention has been to recreate the feel of the Farm in my therapy room with its natural materials and farm roots - you might even find an owl on a branch (not a real one, you'll have to come and see for yourself).
Far from a clinical setting, Cedar Farm is a creative and welcoming community hub home to independent artisan craft studios, wellness practitioners, contemporary art galleries, coffee shops, and local food venues. Surrounded by green fields and open air, Cedar Farm offers a great space where you can enjoy a quiet moment, walk through relaxed courtyard spaces, and grab a warm drink or a bite to eat before or after your session.
https://www.cedarfarm.net
