About me
When you’re living with the impact of difficult relationships or past experiences, life can feel overwhelming, confusing, or unsafe. You may notice anxiety, low mood, loss of confidence, or a sense of not quite knowing who you are anymore. Counselling can offer a space where you don’t have to carry this alone.
I believe that meaningful change begins with a genuine, trusting relationship. Feeling emotionally safe and understood is central to the work we do together. I aim to offer a calm, compassionate space where you can explore whatever feels important to you, at your own pace.
I work extensively with trauma, including early childhood trauma, neglect, and emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. I always work in a trauma-informed way, prioritising your safety, boundaries, and choice throughout our work together.
I’m passionate about supporting clients who are struggling in their relationships. This may include emotional abuse, coercive control, financial control, and gaslighting, as well as physical and sexual abuse. Many people describe feeling as though they’ve lost their sense of identity; counselling can support you to reconnect with yourself and begin to rebuild trust in your own feelings and experiences.
Life can also bring profound loss and change, including relationship breakdown, estrangement, divorce, illness, or bereavement. These experiences can affect us deeply, and therapy can offer a space to process what you’ve been through and find your way forward.
I work in a neuro-affirming way with clients who are exploring or living with autism, ADHD, or AuDHD, including those diagnosed later in life. Together, we focus on understanding how your mind works and what support feels most helpful for you.
Before setting up my private practice, I worked as a counsellor for MIND, Basingstoke College of Technology, Hart Voluntary Action, and START (Sexual Trauma and Abuse Restorative Therapies).
If you’d like to book an introductory session, please get in touch. This gives you an opportunity to share what’s been going on for you and to see whether counselling with me feels like a good fit, with no pressure to continue.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm an Accredited member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) and qualified to work with adults and adolescents aged 11+.
I regularly seek out additional training that is relevant to my work and have an interest in supporting clients:
- Exploring neurodivergence/clients with a recent diagnosis
- Trauma from childhood or recent trauma and its effects
- Difficult relationships and understanding our boundaries
My training includes:
- Working with depression
- Women, the menopause and ADHD
- Understanding AuDHD
- Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping
- Neurolinguistic programming (NLP)
- Working with trauma that has become stuck
- Treating trauma / Working with Shame
- Treating trauma Mental health and the body
- Trauma and the body Dissociation and Somatisation
- Working with relational trauma Dealing with disorganised attachment
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
£60.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I offer an initial, introductory consultation at a reduced rate of £25 for half an hour. Please contact me for more details.
Sessions are £60.
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