This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
I am an experienced therapist trained at depth in working with adults and young clients. The heart of my practice, person centred therapy, is a robust art of relationship - how you relate to yourself, your suffering, and to other people would be central to our work together. I specialise in neurodiversity - including ADHD and autism - and injury from relationships.
Though I am trauma informed and can bring a range of other approaches and techniques to therapy, in my experience it is the therapeutic relationship we form which heals. While carefully holding your history, your suffering, we would also attune to how we are relating in the here and now. Sensing in to what goes on between us generally senses in to how you are relating to yourself and to other people. The therapeutic relationship is a powerful tool to use in unlocking what hurts you or what is getting in your way.
It may be important to note that I am neurodiverse, having known I have ADHD for many years now. I offer a space to my neurodiverse clients to slow down and tease apart what may be expressions of their neurology, and what simply hurts. There are so many aspects to how neurodiversity affects our lives which lie largely unspoken of. The sense of rejection can be fierce and pervasive - and not least towards yourself; differences in ways that you sequence things and organise yourself can extend to how you process hurt and trauma. Much of the time, people with neurodiversity seek therapy to relate differently to themselves, their past, and to other people.
The same is broadly true if you are coming to therapy due to relationships which have harmed you. It can be a painstaking process seeing in to what is yours and what is theirs and finding new ways to give meaning to your experience. Crucially, where previous relationships have harmed you, a safely boundaried therapeutic relationship can help you.
A note for parents or carers of young clients, as therapy with young clients is a little different: youth is a time of rapid, creative change. Therapy harnesses that natural talent young people have to create and change things for themselves. Though there will be talking, there may well be creative, active practice too - after all therapy is a collaborative creative act.
Email me to arrange a time to talk further on the phone free of charge.
Training, qualifications & experience
Foundation Degree in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People.
I currently work for Trauma Foundation South West in Bristol, and as a tutor for Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling. I have previously worked in two schools as a therapist.
Alongside a depth training in person centred counselling and psychotherapy, I am a trauma-informed therapist and often bring body-based therapy, attachment theory, creative interventions and mindfulness in to my work with clients as appropriate. I am experienced in working with people with neurodiversity including ADHD, dyspraxia, ASD and dyslexia.
I am further trained in working with children and young people in ways specifically relevant to those ages. Children and young people often express their distress through their behaviour - something you will have noticed as a parent. Therapy with young people has a similar flavour, action and resistance, full of movement. Youth is a time of powerful change which therapy seeks to harness.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
When I work
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Wednesdays in central Bath.
Tuesdays in Redland / Cotham area of Bristol.
Thursdays central Bristol, very close to Hippodrome.
Further information
For Parents
Whether struggling or not, young people are constantly changing and growing - therapy can help your child harness their natural talent for change and growth to heal and move forward.
The young clients I see tend toward a mix of creative and talking therapy. However they shape their sessions, your child and I will create a warm and trusted environment as they move through their process.
I do sometimes suggest that parents and I work together. Sometimes this is all that is needed, supporting you in your important job of parenting your child.
I also know how intensely precious and challenging the responsibility of parenting can be, having my own two children.
My background
I trained for three years in person centred counselling and psychotherapy, going on to train for a further year in working specifically with children and young people.
Alongside my private practice, I work some of the week for a very established charity providing counselling in the heart of Bath. Until recently I worked as a therapist in primary and secondary school settings.
Over the last twenty-something years I have worked in both residential and community settings supporting adults and young people with complex and enduring mental health issues; I went on to work in Early Years and Playwork; I then made professional theatre as an actor, writer, director and facilitator with children, young people and adults. I still occasionally work in educational settings with young people and direct theatre.
I have a meditation practice stretching back to my teens to draw on if appropriate. Though I do not call it mindfulness, many of my clients young and old have found elements of meditation as enormously helpful as I do.
Sessions with me
All sessions last 50 minutes.
The beautiful, light rooms I use in Bristol and Bath are set up for working creatively with children and adolescents as much as with adults.
There is parking close to the room I use in Bristol and a bus stop a very short walk away.
Many Bath clients find parking in the Sainsbury’s supermarket opposite convenient, and there is a bus stop just outside.
