About me
I have an established private practice in Newton Abbot town centre and Exeter city centre, I also offer online and telephone sessions. I provide sessions for personal therapy, relationship counselling and therapeutic family work.
Sometimes the hardest thing is realising how long you have been carrying everything on your own. Perhaps you are always holding things together for everyone else while quietly struggling yourself. Perhaps your relationships leave you feeling anxious, unseen, disconnected or emotionally drained. Perhaps you are exhausted from overthinking. Or perhaps you have simply reached a point where life no longer feels how you want it to feel.
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck in patterns they do not fully understand — repeating the same relationship dynamics, doubting themselves, losing their sense of identity or feeling trapped between who they are and who they have learned they “should” be.
Therapy can help you make sense of this.
I work with individuals, couples and families to help them understand the deeper emotional patterns shaping their lives and relationships, heal from past experiences and create meaningful, lasting change.
Using Transactional Analysis psychotherapy alongside a warm, relational and client-centred approach, we work together to explore your inner dialogue, emotional experiences, relationship patterns and the life script that may unconsciously shape the way you think, feel and relate to others.
Many of the people I work with struggle with:
· anxiety and overthinking
- people pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries
- relationship difficulties and repeated unhealthy patterns
- low self-worth and self-criticism
- emotional overwhelm or burnout
- unresolved childhood experiences or trauma
- resentment, anger or difficulty letting go
- feeling disconnected from themselves, others or life itself
Therapy is not about becoming someone different. It is about reconnecting with who you truly are beneath the survival strategies, fear and self-doubt
Practice description
Many people spend years adapting themselves to meet the needs and expectations of others, often losing touch with their own needs, voice and sense of self in the process. Over time this can lead to anxiety, emotional exhaustion, low self-esteem, unhealthy relationships and a persistent feeling that something is missing.
Personal Therapy
You are not defined by what has happened to you, nor by the roles you have had to play to survive.
As therapy progresses, many clients begin to:
- trust themselves and their decisions more fully
- reduce overthinking and self-criticism
- set healthier boundaries without guilt
- rediscover purpose, meaning and enjoyment in life
Therapy is not a straight line. It is a spiral. Sometimes healing means revisiting familiar wounds at a deeper level. That is not failure — it is growth.
Couples Counselling/ Relationship Therapy
Relationships can become trapped in dysfunctional cycles. Often couples are not lacking love — they are lacking safety, understanding and healthy communication.
Couples therapy provides a space to slow things down, understand what is happening beneath the conflict and rebuild trust, connection and emotional security.
Together we work to:
- improve communication
- repair trust after hurt or betrayal
- reduce conflict and emotional distance
- create healthier ways of responding to one another
Two healthy individuals create a stronger “we”.
Forgiveness is not always required. But acceptance is often necessary. Acceptance is not approval — it is letting go of the exhausting wish that the past had been different. From that place, real change can begin.
Parent, Child/Adolescence and Families
Many parents are trying to give their children something they did not fully receive themselves. Therapy can help break those cycles and create calmer, healthier family relationships of all ages and stages of life.
Support to resolve
- anxiety and low mood
- family conflict and disconnection
- parenting stress and overwhelm
- rebuilding communication and harmony
Setting up your sessions
I will respond to your enquiry via email.
When you email your enquiry please could you let me know your preferred days and times, and your location as I have practices in Newton Abbot and Exeter. I also offer flexible times for online and telephone sessions.
I offer a free phone introductory call to discuss what you would like from therapy.
We will then go on to book an initial session at a reduced rate, this will allow us to see if we're a good fit.
If we are both happy to proceed we will set some goals for therapy and arrange times and dates to meet on a regular basis, weekly, fortnightly or whatever suits you.
Costs
- Personal therapy: £50 for one hour (online and face to face)
- Couples therapy: £60 for one hour - £80 for One and Half Hours (online and face to face)
- Parent and Child/Adolescent Therapeutic work £50 (online and face to face)
- Evening and Daytime and Weekend sessions available
- Half cost for initial session
Training, qualifications & experience
Advanced Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (4 years training)
Personal Coaching diploma Warwick University
3 years' experience working with individuals and couples at Cotswold Counselling
8 years in private practice
10 years' experience working with parents and families in the statutory and voluntary sector
BACP member
DBS cert
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individuals: £50 for one hour (online and face to face)
Couples: £60 for one hour - £80 for One and Half Hours (online and face to face)
Parent and Child/Adolescent Therapeutic work £50 (online and face to face)
Evening and Daytime and Weekend sessions available
Setting up your sessions
I will respond to your enquiry via email.
When you email your enquiry please could you let me know your preferred days and times for online/telephone sessions.
I offer a free phone introductory call to discuss what you would like from therapy.
We will then go on to book an initial session at a reduced rate, this will allow us to see if we're a good fit.
If we are both happy to proceed we will set some goals for therapy and arrange times and dates to meet on a regular basis, weekly, fortnightly or whatever suits you.
When I work
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In person sessions & online/telephone - subject to availability
Saturday & Sundays 11am - 8pm
Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesdays 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 5pm - 8pm
Friday 5pm - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Further information
What to expect:
I am also offering online counselling and psychotherapy, via zoom and Whatsapp.
I practice from a professional and comfortable room in both Newton Abbot and Exeter Devon
The first step is to contact me via email, text or phone to talk about what you would like to get out of counselling and check you are happy to arrange an introductory session.
Initial free 15 minute phone call (optional)
Face to face sessions and online £50 Individuals, £60 - £85 couples, £50 Parent & Child.
We will agree together what you want to gain from our sessions, and this will be reviewed at regular intervals.
Counselling is confidential, unless there is a safeguarding risk to yourself or others.
I offer short term and long term Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I am fully insured and my client practice is supervised by a UKCP registered supervisor.
You can contact me via email, text or phone call, please state your name, where you live and contact details and I will get back to you to talk about how I can help you.
