About me
Perhaps you look like you are coping perfectly well from the outside, but inside things feel very different.
You might be anxious, exhausted or constantly overthinking. Perhaps your confidence has taken a knock, you’re feeling lonely despite having people around you, or you’ve reached a point where you don’t really know what you want anymore.
Maybe ADHD or another aspect of neurodivergence has left you feeling different or misunderstood. Perhaps OCD, anxiety or phobias are taking up more of your life than you’d like. Or maybe you’re trying to make sense of something that has happened in a relationship — an affair, betrayal or loss of trust that has left you questioning yourself and others.
These are the sorts of difficulties I help people with.
I’m an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), with a BA (Hons) in Humanistic Counselling and a BSc in Exercise Health. I also have more than 25 years’ experience working in health, fitness, nutrition and physical wellbeing.
My route into psychotherapy has been both professional and personal. I’ve lived with OCD for over 34 years and have my own experience of neurodivergence, including ADHD and autistic traits. This doesn’t mean I assume your experience is the same as mine, but it does mean I understand some of the exhaustion, frustration and isolation that can come with feeling that your mind works differently.
I don’t see therapy as someone sitting back and simply listening while you talk. I believe good therapy should be warm, human and collaborative, but it should also challenge you when necessary.
I’ll help you explore what’s happening beneath the surface — the beliefs, experiences and patterns that may have shaped how you see yourself and relate to other people.
Perhaps you’ve become a perfectionist. Maybe you learned to please people, keep everyone happy or always be the strong one. Perhaps you’ve become so used to questioning yourself that you no longer know whether to trust your own feelings.
We can slow things down and become curious about those patterns rather than judging them.
My approach draws from person-centred therapy, CBT, ACT, attachment-based approaches, Transactional Analysis and psychodynamic thinking. I won’t bombard you with psychological terminology or make therapy feel like a university lecture. I use these ideas to help make sense of what you’re experiencing in a way that is practical and understandable.
Ultimately, I want therapy to help you feel more like yourself.
More confident.
More authentic.
More able to make your own choices.
More able to trust yourself, while accepting that certainty isn’t always possible.
You don’t have to have everything figured out before you come to therapy. You don’t even have to know exactly what’s wrong.
Sometimes knowing that something isn’t working anymore is enough of a starting point.
If you’re feeling stuck, disconnected, lonely, overwhelmed or simply ready for something to change, we can start there.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BA (Hons) Humanistic Counselling
- Certificate in Counselling
- Bsc Exercise & Health
- BACP Registered
I have worked in private practice for over 20 years as a Sports Therapist, Personal Trainer, Life Coach and Nutritionist. For the last 6 years I have worked as a Person-centred humanistic counsellor alongside this previous career.
As well as working with clients with various psychological distress, I also specialise in helping those with Eating disorders & Food and Exercise Addictions.
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.
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£70.00 per session
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