About me
About Me
Reaching out for therapy can feel like a big step. Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected, anxious, low, or simply unsure why things feel difficult, you are welcome here.
I am an experienced therapist working with adults, young people, couples, parents, and families. I offer a warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where you can slow down and gently explore what is going on for you.
I am neurodivergence-affirming and trauma-sensitive. I work with ADHD, autism, and sensory sensitivity, and I understand that many of our struggles — including anxiety, depression, burnout, and relationship difficulties — make sense in the context of what we have lived through.
Alongside my private practice, I work as an NHS Talking Therapies Counsellor and am trained in Person-Centred, Emotionally Focused Counselling for Depression.
If you would like to get in touch, please text as well as email.
How I Work
I believe that healing begins when we feel truly heard and understood.
My approach is grounded in Humanistic counselling and informed by trauma therapy, Gestalt therapy, attachment theory, EMDR therapy, and mindful somatic awareness. At the heart of my work is Person-Centred Experiential therapy. This approach is based on the understanding that each person has an innate capacity for growth and healing when offered the right relational conditions. Rather than directing or analysing you, I work collaboratively, helping you tune into your lived, felt experience in the present moment.
I also incorporate somatic work, which focuses on the body’s role in storing and processing experiences. Emotions, trauma, and stress often live not just in the mind but in the body — in muscle tension, posture, breath, or physical sensations. By gently noticing, exploring, and releasing these bodily patterns, somatic work can help regulate the nervous system, reduce anxiety, ease trauma-related tension, and support deeper emotional processing and resilience.
Rather than following a rigid formula, I integrate these approaches in a way that fits you as an individual.
Many people come to therapy for relationship issues, anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, panic attacks, or low self-esteem. Others come with trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, grief and loss, intrusive thoughts, OCD, phobias, addictions, or the long-term effects of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Some are navigating chronic illness, menopause, parenting challenges, identity questions, relationship problems, attachment difficulties, or a sense of disconnection and lack of meaning.
Whatever brings you, we will move at your pace.
Therapy can be a place to untangle painful experiences, process trauma, and work through depression or anxiety, but it can also be a space for personal growth and rediscovery — reconnecting with your sense of self, confidence, creativity, and capacity for connection.
I work holistically, sometimes offering psychoeducation around anxiety, depression, trauma, attachment patterns, or nervous system regulation, and sometimes working with embodied awareness, movement, or gentle experiment — always within a safe and collaborative relationship.
My trauma training and experience working with people who have experienced abuse have taught me the importance of safety, pacing, and deep respect for each person’s story.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process and integrate distressing or traumatic memories that may feel “stuck.”
When we experience trauma or overwhelming events, the nervous system can become dysregulated, and memories may remain stored in a way that continues to trigger anxiety, panic, shame, low mood, or emotional overwhelm in the present. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements or gentle tapping) to support the brain’s natural processing system, allowing memories to be integrated in a way that reduces their emotional intensity.
In my practice, EMDR is never rushed.
Before beginning any trauma processing, we focus first on stabilisation. This means building a strong and trusting therapeutic alliance, developing emotional regulation skills, strengthening internal and external resources, and ensuring you feel safe and supported.
Only when there is sufficient stability and readiness do we move towards reprocessing work. This careful preparation phase is essential and allows EMDR to be integrated safely and effectively.
EMDR can be helpful for PTSD, complex trauma, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, phobias, attachment wounds, and experiences that continue to feel emotionally charged.
Single Session Therapy (90 minutes plus written summary)
A one-off, in-depth therapy session designed to explore a specific issue, pattern, or life situation. Working relationally, we focus on what feels most important for you and aim to create meaningful insight within a single conversation. Rather then basing a quick solution this is a session to facility deeper knowing and clarity.
Working With Young People
Young people today often carry enormous pressure. I work with those experiencing anxiety, depression, exam stress, school avoidance, low self-esteem, body image difficulties, self-harm, trauma, intrusive thoughts, OCD, identity questions, ADHD, autism, and emotional overwhelm.
My aim is to create a friendly, welcoming space where the young person feels safe enough to be themselves. Building trust is central. I adapt my approach to each young person — sometimes we talk, sometimes we use creative, experiential, or somatic methods. I also teach self-regulation skills to help manage intense emotions, stress, and anxiety.
I accept self-referrals from young people aged 16 and over. For ages 12–15, I begin with a parent referral and arrange parent sessions before starting individual work.
Relationship, Couples, Co-Parents and Parent–Child Work
Relationships can be one of our greatest sources of joy — and also of pain.
I work within the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) framework, an evidence-based approach that helps partners recognise and shift negative emotional cycles and rebuild secure connection.
This approach can help couples who feel stuck in conflict, distant, hurt, angry, grieving, or struggling with trust. It can also support couples navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, infidelity, communication difficulties, and attachment wounds.
I also offer parent–child and co-parent sessions, creating a space to strengthen understanding, emotional bonds, and healthier communication patterns.
Parent and Baby
Early attachment matters deeply. I offer parent-and-baby sessions to support connection where attachment may have been affected by birth trauma, postnatal depression, previous loss, bereavement, or other significant experiences.
These sessions are gentle and supportive, focusing on nurturing safety and closeness between parent and baby.
At the heart of my work is the belief that when we can deeply know and accept ourselves — even the parts we struggle with — healing and growth become possible.
If you feel I might be the right therapist for you, I warmly welcome you to get in touch.
Training, qualifications & experience
NHS Talking Therapist- Person Centred Counselling for Depression - Since January 2023
Portsmouth Area Rape Crisis Centre Counselling Volunteer 2012-2017
Restorative and Yin Yoga Practitioner for wellbeing
Certificate in Psychotherapeutic Counselling 2013- Metanoia Institute
Postgraduate diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy Studies 2019 - Middlesex University
Certificate in Counselling Young People
EMDR Level 1 and Level 2
Certificate in Emotionally Focused Therapy with Couples - Externship and Core Skills
Yoga skills, mindfulness, breathwork for PTSD
Trauma training - Sensory motor and Polyvagal informed
Neurodivergence affirmative
Yoga Teacher Training including therapeutic modalities Yin and Restorative and Sound
Psychodrama Therapy Diploma
Psychology Studies
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.
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
Fees
£60.00 - £90.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My fee is £75 for a 50 min face to face regular weekly session with adults.
My fee is 70 for a 50min face to face session with a young person or their parents
Single Session Therapy length 90-100min and follow up summary £150
My basic fee is £90 for weekly couples counselling sessions length 55min-60min longer sessions can be arranged
Online individual sessions £ 60 50 min length
Online couples session £70 55-60 min length
Some concessions are available for face to face sessions to students, people with no or low income and subject to negotiation and availability
When I work
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Further information
I offer my Face to face sessions at The Eaves Godalming and Haslemere. I also offer telephone and Zoom counselling.
