About me
The way I work is relational, because our whole world is made up of relationships - to ourselves, to family, colleagues, partners, and children, and to our beliefs, values, hopes, and fears. Whatever hurts, our relationship to it is the thread.
I help clients living with the impact of childhood trauma, chronic anxiety, complex stress (C-PTSD), attachment and relationships, loneliness, grief, and loss.
Loss isn’t always tied to losing someone or something specific. It can be for what we didn’t have or fear we might not have, for who we want to be, and who we once were.
Why therapy can help
Therapy offers a space to make sense of how we feel - especially when those feelings are complicated, contradictory, and overthinking has left you drained.
Whatever you bring, talking it through together in a safe, confidential space offers clarity and a sense of release. Whether a major life transition, a difficult decision, or a relationship pattern that's leaving you sad, anxious, misunderstood, or lonely - counselling or psychotherapy can help.
You might know what hurts and why - or you may not - you just know you don’t feel right. Where you are is where we start.
Text me to set up a free 15-minute intro call - and come just as you are - however messy you may feel.
My experience with clients
The majority of clients come to me after their best efforts to cope with whatever hurts have started to cost them happiness, connection, joy, and inner peace. The actual issues are varied, and in a way almost secondary - if something is hurting you, it's the process of exploring it together that truly matters.
Issues clients often bring to therapy
Relational issues
- Relationship anxiety, abandonment fears, and repeating family patterns
- Concerns about the impact of avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, or disorganised attachment might be having on their relationships
- Boundaries, perfectionism, and a pressure to please others
- Loneliness, low self-esteem, and low self-worth
- Chronic stress, childhood trauma, and symptoms of C-PTSD
- Challenges in concentrating, focusing, and symptoms of ADHD
Existential pains (meaning, and what we all face as human beings)
- Feeling lost to yourself, your work, or your relationships
- Dread, hopelessness, and meaninglessness
- Questions of identity, meaning, and how to live with uncertainty
- Grief, bereavement, and life transitions that shake the ground beneath us
Physical symptoms
- Nervous system dysregulation (common with C-PSTD and ADHD)
- Social anxiety, OCD, and panic attacks
- Emotional burnout and overwhelming anxiety
- Difficulty resting, feeling feelings, or understanding emotional responses
My approach - relational, body-focused, and existential
What I see take its toll over time in my clients is less what did or didn’t happen and more how they adapted to cope is now limiting other areas of their life.
My work is psychodynamic and attachment-focused at its core - grounded in the understanding that our earliest relationships shape how we relate to ourselves and others now.
My worldview and practice is philosophical and existential. Why? Because struggles with meaninglessness, how we choose to live, and the questions of love, loss, and authenticity are ones we all face - as human beings - simply by existing.
However we work, we pay attention to embodied responses - because our body carries what words alone can’t always reach.
I believe we can all make sense of ourselves when we take the time and care to meet ourselves, and to listen openly.
Positive changes clients experience through therapy together
- A quieter, more settled sense of who they are
- Self-abandoning patterns easier to spot
- Self-blame softening into curiosity
- Their voice becomes clearer and boundaries easier
- More trust in themselves - with agency and authenticity when making decisions
- More energy for what matters - and bring joy, connection, and contentment
- Symptoms of stress and ADHD ease, and rest becomes easier.
We can’t make the world stop or change around us. But we can find ways of meeting it with more clarity, courage, compassion, and choice.
Everyone is welcome | My commitment to inclusivity
The trauma approaches I work with are framed to include not just personal trauma, but collective, systemic, cultural, racial, and gender-based.
When we explore your lived experience, we hold it in all of these - and look at the broader impacts of the stress, trauma, and fear that may have formed an emotional inheritance that didn't start with us.
Training, qualifications & experience
My training and how it shapes what I offer
I'm a BACP-registered psychotherapist with an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regent's University London. I spent three years studying and training in psychoanalytic, humanistic, and existential approaches, and chose to specialise in existential, non-pathologising, and non-diagnostic work in my final year.
My work is trauma-informed, relationally focused, and grounded in a genuine belief that we make sense - even when what we're doing doesn't seem to.
Beyond my core training, I've specialised in trauma, attachment, and body-based regulation work - the areas that shape so much of how we come to relate to ourselves and others.
I am deepening my existing experience in working with developmental trauma with the NeuroAffective Relational Model (known as NARM) - an advanced, postgraduate training that specifically supports clients who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and live with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).
Alongside NARM, my approach draws on Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies (SERS), Attachment Theory, developmental research, and Trauma-Informed Stabilisation Treatment (TIST) - which blends Internal Family Systems with Somatic Therapy.
What an integrated approach means for you
What all of these share is a view of complex stress responses as intelligent adaptations, not character flaws - the intelligent responses of someone doing their best in the circumstances they found themselves in. They are non-pathologising and non-diagnostic. Rather than trying to "process" or "resolve" the past, we focus on building capacity to face difficulties so symptoms ease, and Self-trust deepens - with time.
What guides our work is always the same question: what do you need, right now? Our way of working follows you, always.
Qualifications
- MA (Level 7), Psychotherapy and Counselling, Existential focus | Regent's University London
- PG Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling | Regent's University London (including PG Certificate)
- PG Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Approaches | Bangor University
Specialist Professional Complex Trauma Training
- Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies, Levels 1 - 4 | Linda Thai (who leads intensive group work with Bessel van der Kolk)
- NeuroAffective Relational Model® (for C-PTSD and Developmental Trauma) | In progress with the Trauma Training Institute
Continuing Professional Development
- Mentalization-Based Treatment with Adults | Anna Freud Centre
- Working with the Disembodied Psyche | Susie Orbach
- Building Better Boundaries | Terry Real, Relational Life Institute
- Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice | The Bowlby Centre
- Trauma Informed Stabilisation Programme | Janina Fisher
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Extensive experience working with and healing from: Intergenerational Trauma, Narcissistic Caregiving, Emotional Neglect, Family Estrangement, and Coercive Cults, and High-Control Religious Groups that cause harm. This is a specific area of expertise and recovery that can be helpful to individuals who have been disfellowshipped, ex-communicated, disowned, and shunned by their family of origin.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 - £110.00
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Further information
I have significant experience of coercive, high-control religious, cults and spiritual "healing" groups that cause harm. This is a specific area of expertise and recovery that can be helpful to individuals who have been disfellowshipped, ex-communicated, disowned, and shunned by their family of origin.
