About me
I am a qualified Art Psychotherapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), with 12 years of clinical experience supporting children, young people, families, and adults within NHS settings and private practice.
I hold a non judgmental and collaborative space where people can explore emotional difficulties, relationships, identity, experiences of trauma, anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded in curiosity and authenticity. I believe therapy is not only about understanding patterns, but also about creating space for feeling, meaning, and change.
Some clients choose to work through talking, while others find that creativity and image-making can help express experiences that feel difficult to articulate. I aim to work at a pace that feels safe and attuned to each individual person.
I am also experienced in supporting staff working within emotionally demanding environments, offering reflective space, emotional containment, and support around stress, burnout, and workplace challenges.
As an Art Psychotherapist, I encourage the use of creative processes where appropriate, particularly when words feel insufficient. Art Therapy (also known as Art Psychotherapy) can provide a safe and accessible way to engage with complex emotions and unconscious processes, supporting exploration and understanding of one’s internal world. I see the creative process as transformative, and empowering.
Art Therapy can benefit people of all ages, and no previous experience or artistic skill is needed, as the focus is not on artistic ability or aesthetics, but on expression, communication, and emotional exploration.
Training, qualifications & experience
I completed my Master’s degree in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London. I have experience offering evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children, young people, adults, and families who have experienced trauma, as well as those presenting with difficulties related to depression, anxiety, bereavement and loss, emotional dysregulation, self-harming behaviours, psychosis, social communication difficulties, selective mutism, gender identity, and neurodiversity, including Autism.
While my core training is grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theory, my practice is integrative and informed by attachment-based psychotherapy, mentalization-based approaches, compassion-focused therapy, psychoeducation, mindfulness, and cognitive analytic thinking. I aim to offer a tailored and collaborative therapeutic approach that responds to each person’s individual needs and is reviewed throughout the therapeutic process. I also work from a trauma-informed perspective, with an emphasis on safety, attunement, and relational understanding.
Alongside clinical practice, I engage in ongoing professional development, regular clinical supervision, and continued engagement with contemporary research and developments within psychotherapy and analytical practice. I also hold a particular interest in neuroscience and the growing evidence supporting the role of creativity and Art Therapy in emotional processing, regulation, and mental health.
I am a member of the British Association of Art Therapists and I also offer clinical supervision for therapists and trainees.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I have undertaken additional training in healing trauma through guided drawing approaches, including bilateral drawing techniques that support emotional regulation, integration, and the processing of traumatic experiences through both verbal and non-verbal expression.
I draw from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)-informed approaches to support clients in developing emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and greater self-awareness within the therapeutic process.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 - £150.00
Concessions offered for
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Further information
If you would like to know more about Art therapy, have a look at the British Association of Art Therapists website.
