About me
I am a psychotherapist working with adults and children in the UK and internationally. I offer a warm, thoughtful, and trauma-informed way of working, supporting people who come to therapy with both complex and circumstantial difficulties — often shaped by life events, relationships, loss, or periods of significant change.
My work takes place one-to-one and with groups, with careful attention to the person in front of me and the wider context of their life. I work in person in Lovedean and Petersfield, and also online, allowing flexibility to work across the UK and internationally.
For a number of years, I have worked in close professional collaboration with Mandy Saligari as part of her international team. Her ground-breaking, proactive model of addiction recovery informs my therapeutic practice, particularly when working with eating disorders, self-harm, and OCD.
My work is also informed by close personal and professional proximity to addiction, bringing a grounded, realistic understanding to the therapy room.
Before qualifying in Humanistic Counselling at the University of Chichester, I spent over 20 years working with vulnerable children and adults across education, health, and the criminal justice system. That experience continues to shape how I work today — offering a steady, relational space where people can feel understood, supported, and able to make sense of their experiences.
Issues I can help you with include:
Addiction & disordered eating
- Addiction and dependency (substances, alcohol, gambling, and other compulsive behaviours).
- Disordered eating and difficulties around food, control, and body image.
- Self-harm
Emotional wellbeing.
- Anxiety, low mood, and depression.
- Low self-esteem and difficulties with self-image.
- Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or emotionally exhausted
Trauma, loss & life challenges.
- Trauma and its impact on daily life.
- Loss, grief, and bereavement.
- Living with terminal illness or supporting a loved one who is unwell
Relationships & family life.
- Difficult or painful relationships
- Separation, divorce, and family conflict.
- Support for parents experiencing challenges with their child’s behaviour
Children, young people & wider systems
- Childhood worries affecting school attendance or wellbeing.
- Understanding and addressing antisocial or offending behaviour.
- Support for victims of crime, including families of offenders
If you would like to book an appointment to explore how we might work together, please do reach out via this directory or through the contact page on my website.
Training, qualifications & experience
My Other Relevant Experience Includes:
- Pre-trial therapy
- Providing therapy to survivors of abuse and victims of crime
- Working with families
- Working therapeutically with groups
- Group facilitation for children (music, singing & drama as therapy, emotional literacy & behaviour change programmes)
- Singing as a therapeutic activity - adult groups
- Critical Incident Debrief
- Workplace mediation
- Supporting bereaved parents and siblings
- Independent Funeral Celebrant
In addition to my practice I sit on a professional conduct panel. I also provide training to organisations and small groups.
Qualifications & Training include:
- Diploma in Humanistic Counselling (University of Chichester)
- Certificate in Counselling Studies L3 (CPCAB)
- Professional Certificate of Effective Practice in Youth Justice (University of Portsmouth)
- Narcissism, the Brain and Recovery (Mind Body Breakthrough)
- Addiction, the Brain and Recovery (Mind Body Breakthrough)
- Supervision CSAccred.(AAC)
- Certificate in working with Therapeutic Groups (The Link Centre)
- Certificate in working with families (The Link Centre)
- Transactional Analysis (TA101)
- BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts
I am committed to my own ongoing professional development (CPD)
I hold an Enhanced DBS Certificate and hold indemnity insurance.
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. 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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I can offer singing as a therapeutic activity for individuals & small groups.
Support for Victims of crime
Supporting those who are dealing with a loved one (partner, child or parent) being in Prison.
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
All appointments require 48 hours notice to cancel. The full fee is payable if less that the required notice is given. Missed appointments are charged in full.
