About me
What therapy can offer
Therapy offers you the opportunity to explore your life, make sense of where you are and what is possible, and make choices about how you want to live.
Therapy can also be about addressing trauma, distress or experiences that continue to hold you back. It can provide a space for those experiences to be spoken about and witnessed, and to begin to find a way forward.
Therapy can also help you develop greater self-awareness and a different relationship with yourself, with other people and with the world around you.
How I work
I listen to you, take you seriously and see you as unique. My aim is to create a comfortable and safe environment where any topic can be explored in a way that suits you and feels manageable. I will meet you where you are and as you are.
I am warm, curious and non-pathologising, and I hope you will find me open, accepting and non-judgemental. We will have a conversation about your life and what is happening, how you make sense of things and how you want to live.
We will work collaboratively to decide which ways of working are most useful to you. The work can be flexible and may evolve over time, and I will encourage you to integrate the insights you gain in therapy into how you live your life.
I work with a wide range of difficulties and experiences, with particular interests in trauma and complex distress, neurodivergence, relationships, existential questions and spirituality. I also have particular clinical and academic interests in altered states, unusual and non-ordinary experiences, and psychedelic integration.
Training, qualifications & experience
About me
I am a UKCP-registered psychotherapist. Alongside my private practice, I have worked in the NHS since 2019 and currently work as a Principal Counselling Psychologist in community mental health teams, where I work with people experiencing complex and longstanding forms of distress. I am completing a preceptorship in this role while I am in the final stages of completing my doctorate in counselling psychology.
The basis of my training is existential-phenomenological psychotherapy, and my work is relational and integrative. I have trained in and draw on a broad range of therapeutic approaches where helpful, including compassion- and mindfulness-based approaches, ecotherapy and ACT. I am also trained in EMDR and offer EMDR sessions.
Qualifications, training and professional registration
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy (DCPsych) - Middlesex University / NSPC, final stages
- UKCP-registered psychotherapist
- EMDR training - EMDR Europe
- PGDip Psychology - University of Derby
- MA Cognitive Semiotics - Aarhus University
- BSc Theoretical Physics - University of Exeter
Additional psychotherapy training includes:
Existential-phenomenological psychotherapy; relational and integrative psychotherapy; psychodynamic approaches; CBT and third-wave approaches; ACT; compassion-based approaches; mindfulness-based approaches; solution-focused therapy; family and systemic therapy; group psychotherapy; gender, sex and sexuality; psychological assessment and formulation.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Psychedelic integration
- Altered states and non-ordinary experiences
- Questions of meaning and purpose
- Life transitions and significant change
- Existential concerns
- The pressures of highly demanding careers, including working in tech
- Ecological, economic and sociopolitical distress
- Distress relating to oppression, social injustice and political events
- Severe or complex distress approached in a non-pathologising way
- Experiences understood outside conventional psychiatric or medical frameworks.
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Online therapy = £70
- In person (Exeter, Plymouth, South Devon) = £80
- EMDR:
- 75 minutes £100
- 90 minutes £120
I offer a free 20 minute chat to answer any questions you might have and explore working together.
Further information
Particular areas of interest
- Trauma
- Trauma has been a significant part of my clinical work, including with people experiencing complex and longstanding distress. I work in a non-pathologising and integrative way, and I also offer EMDR sessions for people who want to work with trauma in this way.
- ADHD and neurodivergence
- I work with neurodivergence of all kinds, with a particular interest in ADHD, where I also bring lived experience. I take an open, non-directive and non-pathologising approach, exploring what it is actually like for you to live with neurodivergence and how it shapes your experience of yourself, other people and the world.
- Spirituality, altered states and psychedelic integration
- I have a particular interest in spirituality, meaning and exploring the intersections between consciousness, psychology, spirituality and multiple ways of knowing. My doctoral research explored therapists’ experiences of practising psilocybin-assisted therapy in UK clinical trials, and I am interested in altered states, transpersonal and esoteric experiences and beliefs, as well as experiences that may be described as unusual, non-ordinary or outside conventional psychological frameworks.
- I also offer psychedelic integration for people wanting to make sense of psychedelic or other non-ordinary experiences.
- Work, burnout and demanding careers
- Before training as a therapist, I had a 15-year career in tech and financial services, including senior leadership roles. I have a particular interest in working with people in highly demanding careers, those experiencing work-related stress or burnout, and people considering a significant career change.
