About me
Psychotherapy for Becoming More Fully Yourself
BACP Accredited Counsellor | UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist
Perhaps something in your life has become difficult, repetitive or painful, and you have reached a point where you want to understand yourself more deeply.
You may be thoughtful, self-aware and able to reflect on yourself and your relationships, and yet find yourself repeating patterns you don't really want to repeat. You may struggle with anxiety, self-criticism, relationships, intimacy, confidence or a sense of not quite knowing who you are.
Perhaps you have become very good at adapting to other people while losing touch with yourself. Or perhaps you are functioning well on the outside but, when you become quiet, something feels empty, disconnected or absent.
I offer depth-oriented psychotherapy for people who want more than strategies for managing symptoms. My approach integrates Core Process psychotherapy, Buddhist psychology and contemplative awareness with psychodynamic, humanistic and existential approaches.
I am interested in what happens when we become genuinely curious about our experience. We can slow things down, notice what is happening in your thoughts, feelings and body, and explore the patterns and adaptations through which you have learned to live.
For me, psychotherapy isn't about identifying what is wrong with you and trying to fix it. It's about developing a different relationship with yourself, including the parts of yourself you may have judged, rejected or pushed away.
I work with issues including anxiety, self-criticism, relationships, intimacy, confidence, grief and loss, life transitions, identity, dissociation, feeling disconnected or empty, and difficulties around sexuality and belonging.
I welcome clients across the LGBTQ+ and queer communities and am comfortable exploring questions of sexuality, identity, relationships, authenticity and belonging.
I am also currently training in Wild Therapy, and offer outdoor sessions on Caerphilly Mountain alongside my established psychotherapy practice.
You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what you want from therapy. Sometimes “I don't know” is an important place to begin.
Sessions: 60 minutes, usually weekly
Location: Cardiff • Caerphilly Mountain • Online
Fee: £70 per session
If something here resonates with you, you're welcome to get in touch. We can arrange an initial conversation and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP-accredited counsellor and UKCP-accredited psychotherapist with over 12 years’ experience, combining trauma-informed practice, somatic awareness, and contemplative depth.
- 2026: Wild Therapy Practitioner Training (Leonie Guest)
- 2025: Somatic Trauma Therapy Training (Babette Rothschild)
- 2022: UKCP-accredited Psychotherapist in Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy
- 2019: BACP-accredited Counsellor in Humanistic Existentialist Counselling
- 2016–2020: MA in Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy (Karuna Institute)
- 2011–2015: Foundation Degree in Humanistic Existentialist Counselling (Vale and Glamorgan College)
- 2015–present: Private Practice
- 2013: Counsellor, Mind
- 2011: Counsellor, Cruse Bereavement
- Various training courses with Pink Therapy around gender diversity
- Previously, 20 years’ teaching experience in further and higher education
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Identity and belonging
- Dissociation and emotional intensity
- Early attachment wounds and protective patterns
- Life transitions and threshold moments
- Nervous system regulation and embodied grounding
- Shadow, myth and archetype
- Individuation and inner agency
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
I work ideally on a weekly basis, at the same time each week for an hour's session.
Currently 1 hour sessions are £65.
If you would like to book an initial session to see what therapy with me would be like for you, please call, text or email. I work both face to face and online.
Further information
I came to this work through my own therapeutic journey, which helped me find a more authentic and compassionate relationship with myself. This personal experience continues to guide how I work with others.
My approach integrates mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy - which brings together Buddhist psychology, Western psychodynamics, and relational practice - with Babette Rothschild’s somatic trauma training and a neuroscience-based understanding of the nervous system.
This means I pay attention not just to thoughts and emotions, but also to how your body holds stress and emotion, supporting you to find steadiness, safety and resilience.
Alongside my work, I have a contemplative practice that includes daily meditation and regular mindfulness-based retreats. When I’m not reading about growth and development, I enjoy playing classical guitar, exercising, and spending time in nature.
