About me
You’ve been holding it all together - but inside you’re tired. You’ve worked hard, cared deeply, and tried to do everything right. From the outside, maybe you’ve ticked all the boxes - a good job, a decent life - but inside you still feel a quiet ache, a sense that something’s missing or not right. Perhaps you:
- feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in patterns you can’t quite name.
- experience difficulties in your relationship, or are navigating complex family dynamics.
- recognise patterns of behaviour or relationships that you long to understand and find freedom from.
- feel quietly exhausted from feeling like you have to live up to other people's expectations.
- experiencing a sense of disconnection from your own voice and desires, and want to learn to relate to yourself with more trust and compassion.
- have spent so much time tending to others that you aren't quite sure how to care for yourself.
You’re not alone and you don’t have to figure it all out by yourself.
I work with women who feel stuck beneath the surface; navigating quiet overwhelm, difficult relationship patterns, or a loss of connection with themselves. Women who want to stop living by everyone else’s expectations and start reconnecting with themselves.
How can counselling help
Counselling is a space for profound yet gentle transformation, where you can come home to yourself, unlearn the rules you never chose and build a life that feels like your own. Over time you begin to live from a place that feels true to who you are.
You make choices – in relationships, work, daily life – that reflect and align with your own values, rather than the limiting expectations you’ve been carrying. You learn to stop over-performing to keep others close, and no longer feel the need to hold everything in to avoid conflict. You explore the rules you’ve been living by, and new beliefs take root which are gentler, truer, and more life-giving. Your inner voice softens and you start to trust yourself more and speak up more. You see yourself differently: no longer “too much”, but enough, worthy, whole. Through counselling you stop just surviving, and start living an empowered life that fits you.
Counselling gives you time each week to slow down and can help you hear your own thoughts, feelings and needs, and develop deeper connections and relationships. You are able to speak with someone who is there solely to listen to you and help you. Your relationship with me will be different from other relationships in your life, and it may be the first time you haven’t had to worry about someone else’s needs. Counselling allows you the opportunity and space to get in touch with who you are and what you want in life.
My approach
My approach is relational, compassionate, and grounded in both professional and lived experience. I focus on creating a warm, empathic and caring relationship in which you feel heard, supported and accepted; helping you develop and see change in your life.
In our sessions I pay close attention to the patterns that have shaped how you relate to yourself and others. Together, we gently explore where these patterns began (from family roles to past relationships) and how they may still be influencing you today.
I believe each person is unique and has individual needs, and this is true in counselling. Therefore no one approach can work for every person. I am an integrative therapeutic counsellor, which simply means I draw from a variety of different methods and counselling theories; tailoring an approach which develops over time, to help you with what you need and where you are throughout the counselling journey.
Where am I based
I see clients for weekly sessions in-person and online. In-person counselling takes place in Clapham Junction. The venue is close to regular bus and rail services. The room is quiet, comfortable and confidential. Online counselling takes place on a confidential and secure video platform. I am able to see clients from anywhere in the UK.
How to get in touch
Starting counselling can feel like a big step, especially if you’re used to handling things on your own. My role is to offer a steady, thoughtful space where you don’t have to perform or hold everything together. If I sound like the right counsellor for you, please do contact me and we can have a free initial conversation about your needs.
Training, qualifications & experience
Experience
I have over 8 years’ therapeutic experience supporting women navigating the kinds of struggles that don’t always show on the surface, but run deep. I have been in private practice for 6 years, and before that I worked for two counselling agencies supporting women through long- and short-term therapy within low cost and NHS services. I have helped clients understand themselves better, gain insight into how their past has impacted their present sense of self, and feel happier in themselves, their life and relationship choices.
I have also supported women outside the therapy room through befriending services, pastoral care, and coaching. I am passionate in my work and everyday life about encouraging and empowering women to live from a place that feels true to who they are, make choices that align with and reflect their values, trust themselves more, and see themselves as enough, worthy and whole.
Training & Qualifications
I am a Registered Member of BACP, the leading professional association for members of the counselling professions. As a member I adhere to their Ethical Framework and Professional Conduct procedures.
I spent 5 years in training, and have an MSc in Therapeutic Counselling from the University of Greenwich, and a Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling & Counselling Skills from Birkbeck College, University of London. I am also committed to on-going, continued professional development and attend regular training courses and read books and articles to maintain and develop my skills and knowledge.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
The fee for weekly individual sessions is £80.
I offer a free 20 minute initial phone conversation for us to discuss your needs, answer any questions you may have, and decide if we wish to begin counselling together.
When I work
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I currently have availability for weekly sessions on Tuesday (in-person and online) and Wednesday (online).
Further information
If I sound like the right counsellor for you, please do contact me and we can arrange to have a free initial conversation about your needs.
