About me
It can be really hard to admit when you’re feeling depressed, overwhelmed, burnt out, or weighed down by responsibilities. You may have tried talking to friends or family, but they don’t always understand or they simply don’t know how to help. That’s often the moment people realise they need someone who can meet their experience with compassion, training, and genuine care.
In our sessions, you’ll have space to explore your feelings honestly and without judgement. My role is to support you in reconnecting with your agency, your longings, and the parts of you that may have gone quiet under stress or masking. I work with all kinds of people, and I’m especially oriented toward those who are creative, neurodivergent, or in the process of unmasking and coming home to themselves.
My approach is integrative and relational, informed by trauma-sensitive practice, embodiment, and art psychotherapy. I believe deeply in the inner intelligence each person carries and that healing becomes possible within the right relational conditions.
Through our work, you may begin to build resilience to life’s stresses, reconnect with your internal sense of safety, and feel more able to move through the world with clarity, freedom, and joy.
If this resonates, please reach out for a free initial consultation, or feel free to book our first session in Leith. I also offer flexible online sessions.
Training, qualifications & experience
Education
- MSc Art Psychotherapy, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh UK 2025
- MFA Painting, Edinburgh College of Art 2010
- BFA CU Boulder, Colorado USA 2008
Experience
I am a psychodynamically trained Art Psychotherapist passionate to support clients to enact real transformation. I have a background as a professional artist and work in a trauma informed, person centered way.
Volunteer Counsellor - Crossreach, Edinburgh, UK, 2024-2025. I provided art psychotherapy to children and young people of parents with a history of substance misuse. Offering 20 sessions, I built trusting, safe therapeutic relationships with play based and creative interventions supporting clients to build confidence.
Art therapist on placement - elder homes, Edinburgh 2024-2025. As part of a multi-disciplinary team I created a new art therapy service, which include a 7 week group, which supported elders suffering from dementia, blindness and physical disability to feel less lonely, process emotional loss and increase pride.
Art therapist on placement - Snt Thomas Aquinas School, Edinburgh, UK, 2021-2024. At this high school, I held individual sessions with young people to support them with struggles like peer relationships, family dynamics, sexuality, gender and identity.
Art teacher - Eric Liddell Centre, Edinburgh, UK, 2017-2018. I taught watercolour to a group of adults and we created many projects to support their personal expression.
Self employed artist - Edinburgh, UK, 2010–2012. As an artist, I have paintings collected around the world and have participated in significant exhibitions. My personal artwork shapes my ethos as a psychotherapist in my value of personal expression.
Professional Development
- Being Me, Six-month embodiment training Feb-June 2025
- Supporting Mens Mental Health Needs June, 2025
- Online Therapy Training
- BAAT Conference
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 HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£40.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I am making an introductory offer! I am offering sessions until the Spring 2026 for only £35 while I build my private practice! Enjoy the opportunity to work with an experienced art therapist at great value for your money!
When I work
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I work in person in Leith on Thursdays, and offer sessions online the rest of the week.
Further information
As a newly qualified art psychotherapist with a background as a professional artist, I love to use materials to deepen our work, but this space is for you to use as you like for your own process. I am trauma informed and person centred, and will support you in whatever life challenges you are navigating. Please contact me to find out how we can work together!
