About me
Who do I work with?
You're someone others rely on but it's starting to take a toll
Now you're feeling stuck and feel like you just watch life go by. I help people who feel like they're on autopilot - performing each day, going through the motions, providing for everyone and never feeling like it's enough.
If you've experienced trauma
Most of my therapeutic experience comes from working with people who have experienced trauma, abuse, or discrimination in their lives. These experiences can show up in many ways affecting you day-to-day, including flashbacks, emotional overwhelm, dissociation, or difficulties with anger and anxiety.
How I work
We start by making sense of your experiences together. We look at how your past experiences, relationships, and life events have shaped the patterns you're stuck in now. This helps you understand why things feel the way they do and what might help.
I aim to be both straightforward and supportive and work collaboratively to shape a way of working that fits you. We’ll find practical strategies to help you feel more connected to yourself, support healthy relationships, begin to trust your decisions and build confidence over time. I aim to provide a flexible, adaptable process that evolves as you grow and supports you to create a future that belongs to you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have over 12 years’ experience in the mental health sector. I've worked as a support worker, supporting individuals experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties in the community and in hospital. I've provided both individual and group therapy across the third sector, NHS, private, and independent services for the last 10 years, following training in pluralistic counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and the completion of my doctorate in counselling psychology. Most of my experience has been working with complex trauma through the impact of childhood trauma, neglect, and sexual abuse.
I've also held leadership roles, including team leader for a trauma support service and management positions in the retail sector, giving me extensive experience in supervising teams, coordinating services, and promoting staff wellbeing and development.
My Masters and Doctorate research focused on PTSD and Complex PTSD in Armed Forces veterans, including treatment seeking behaviours, presenting symptoms and coping styles and engagement with therapy. I have presented this research in research conferences to raise awareness for consideration of best practice in treatment.
Qualifications:
- DPsych Counselling Psychology
- PGCert Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- MSc Counselling (Pluralistic counselling)
Selected Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training, workshops, and short courses:
- Complex Trauma and Dissociation (PTSD Trauma Workshops)
- PTSD Masterclass (PTSD Trauma Workshops)
- Introduction to Theory and Practice of Compassion Focused Therapy (The Compassionate Mind Foundation)
- Complex Traumatic Dissociation Awareness: Trauma Informed Practice & Three Phase Model (First Person Plural)
- Dissociation and DID: The Fundamentals (Carolyn Spring)
- Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors (Janina Fisher)
- Working therapeutically with autistic adults (First Psychology Institute)
- Race and identity (Susan Cousins)
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
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Fees
£95.00 - £110.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fees are £95 per 50-min session for self funding clients. Insurance fees are £110 per 50-min session.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation call for you to have a no-obligation chat with me to see if we can work together.
I have limited concessionary spaces for:
- Trainee counselling psychologists where therapy is a mandatory requirement for training: £55 per 50-min session.
These spaces are available online and in-person.
When I work
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Further information
I offer a free 20-minute consultation call. You can contact me to arrange a time for us to chat.
I offer therapy sessions online and in-person in Leith, Edinburgh. The room is on the ground floor and can be accessible for wheelchair users, but I can discuss individual needs further to ensure this is suitable.
