About me
Looking for a therapist is a courageous first step to make. You may be feeling uncertain of what might come next. I have found that common themes clients bring often include: • Feeling anxious • Feelings of shame and a lack of worthiness • Being very self-critical • Feeling rejected, hurt, and alone • Stuck in relationships that are not fulfilling • Feeling that your life lacks purpose • Traumatic experiences that feel like they define you • Would it help to have a space to work through these issues and to feel greater clarity in your life?
If any of these issues resonate with you then you will find benefit in working with myself as your therapist.
I work as Person-Centred Experiential (PCE) therapist. PCE Therapy is an effective and respectful way of working — and also a deeply powerful one. It offers a space where you can begin to make sense of what you’ve been through, reconnect with your felt experience, and move toward a future that feels more like your own.
At the heart of this approach is relationship — a real, human-to-human connection grounded in trust, care, and presence. I don’t offer quick fixes or techniques. Instead, I stay alongside you, moment by moment, listening with care, attuning to what’s emerging, and inviting your own inner truth to come forward in its own way and time.
We might explore questions like:
- Is this a path you’ve chosen?
- What do you need in your life right now?
- What would it be like to choose your own direction?
- What do you need right now to take a step toward yourself?
I’ll hold a space that’s steady, emotionally safe, and responsive to your process — a space where you can unfold without being rushed or judged. For some, this means working with difficult feelings, memories, or patterns that feel stuck or tangled. For others, it means reconnecting with parts of themselves that have long been silenced.
My way of being in therapy is grounded in a commitment to authenticity, tenderness, and deep respect for the uniqueness of each person. I draw from many years of clinical experience, as well as ongoing research into how we encounter one another at the deepest levels — particularly in moments of vulnerability.
My research explores how person-centred values such as empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard are not just ideas, but embodied ways of being with others — often expressed in subtle, tender, and powerful ways.
Over the years, I’ve worked with many people to help them heal from the following emotional issues:
- Shame directed towards Self
- Inner Child process
- Traumatic experiences
- Sexual and Emotional abuse
- Relationship Issues
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Reducing Overthinking
- Calming their Self-Critical process
I believe healing happens when there is real understanding — when we feel seen, heard, and genuinely met.
One client recently shared:
“When I first took the decision to embark on a therapeutic journey I had no idea where this would take me. I found you through an online directory and over the last year or so I have never looked back. Recently playing a game with some conversation cards I had the question ‘What is the one belief or behaviour that has positively impacted your life in the last 12 months?’ and I can answer with certainty that the kindness and compassion I have experienced in your therapy room has been life changing.
The way you have gently handled my emotions and feelings during the last 12 months has helped me to heal, process and learn. The empathy I experience from you during our sessions makes me feel seen and heard, but more importantly, safe. Your warm and caring nature has helped me share things that I have never felt able to share previously. I am grateful for the space you give me both physically and emotionally, and for also always accommodating me.”
If this sounds like the kind of space you’re looking for, you’re very welcome to get in touch.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been qualified as a Person Centred Experiential practitioner (Diploma in Counselling) since 2000. I trained with Pete Sanders and Mish Crouan at Person Centred Counselling Services (PCCS) in Manchester, England.
I have an MSc in Counselling (from the University of Strathclyde, 2012) and am in the final stages of completing my PhD (at the University of Nottingham). My doctoral thesis explores what it means to be 'person centred', what this looks like in practice, and how students learn to develop their own way of being person-centred. My research is also focused on what it means to be courageously committed to one's own spiritual core whilst aiming to live in a tender and open-hearted way.
I completed further training in Emotion Focused Therapy during 2012-13 with Professor Robert Elliott, at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
I recently completed a year-long Supervision training (2023-24) with Robin Shohet and Joan Wilkins at the Centre for Supervision and Team Development.
I currently see individual clients and supervisees, within my own well established private practice, in my purpose built therapy room.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I work in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
I have facilitated counselling training since 2003, and have supported many hundreds of students within their own personal and professional development journey, over the years.
I have taught counselling in both further education colleges and in Universities for over 20 years. I have extensive experience of managing counselling training, curriculum design and development, academic and pastoral support, and programme leadership.
I have presented my research at a wide range of national and international conferences over the last 15 years. These include presenting at conferences for the following organisations: The Person Centred Association (June 2025); Association for the Development of the Person Centred Approach (2021); The World Association for Person Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling (2021, 2018, 2014, 2012, 2010); The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2018, 2014, 2012, 2011); Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) (2010).
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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Fees
£70.00 per session
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Additional information
You can pay by bank transfer. If you are unable to attend a session then I would ask for you to give 72 hours notice. If you do not attend a session then the full fee would be payable.
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Further information
I believe in compassionate non-violence. I have been vegan for over 27 years as part of this practice. I am interested in Buddhist psychology and shamanic healing practices and both of these aspects subtly and profoundly inform my practice and my worldview. I am dedicated to offering genuinely empathic and compassionate therapy, supervision and training.
