About me
Sustenance for the Soul is my psychotherapy practice, offering individual online psychotherapy to adults throughout the UK.
I have worked therapeutically with people for more than 25 years and take a holistic, integrative approach. This means I am interested in the whole person — your thoughts and emotions, relationships and history, patterns of behaviour, the body and its responses, as well as questions of identity, meaning and spirituality where these are important to you.
I do not work from a single psychological model or assume that the same approach will suit everyone. I listen closely, but I am not a therapist who remains entirely silent or neutral. At times I may be quite active and direct — offering an observation, making connections, asking questions or challenging an established way of thinking. At other times, close attention and allowing space for something to emerge may be more important.
I am interested not only in changing something that has become difficult or harmful, but in understanding why it developed and what function it may have come to serve. Behaviours and patterns that appear inexplicable from the outside can have their own internal logic. Understanding this can be an important part of how change becomes possible.
Intuition also informs my work. I hold this alongside clinical experience, critical thought and curiosity rather than treating any one interpretation as definitive.
I have extensive experience of working with anxiety, including persistent worry, intrusive or repetitive thoughts, panic and OCD, as well as eating disorders, particularly anorexia. I also work with loss and bereavement, relationship difficulties, recurring patterns and behaviours, periods of change, and questions of identity, meaning and purpose.
As a transpersonal psychotherapist, I am also comfortable working with spiritual, existential and non-ordinary experiences. You do not need to hold any particular spiritual or religious beliefs. My interest is in what an experience means for you and the effect it has upon your life, rather than requiring it to fit a predetermined explanation.
I have a longstanding professional interest in voice hearing, spiritual crisis, altered and non-ordinary states of consciousness, death and dying, and psychedelic experience.
I also offer psychedelic preparation and integration for people considering a psychedelic experience or wishing to explore one they have already had. I do not provide substances or conduct psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions.
My practice is based in Shropshire and I currently work online with adults throughout the UK.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an MA in Transpersonal Psychotherapy, an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and a Practitioner Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I have also undertaken specialist training in Transpersonal and Psychedelic Psychology, which informs my work in psychedelic preparation and integration.
I have worked therapeutically with people for more than 25 years and in private psychotherapy practice since 2007. My clinical experience includes work within general psychiatry, adolescent mental health and eating-disorder services at the Priory Hospital, as well as work within NHS and private mental health services.
In 2010 I established ASC Wellbeing Clinic, a specialist service supporting young people and their families, which I ran for 15 years. Alongside clinical practice, I have provided professional training and supervision and facilitated workshops in self-awareness and personal development.
My MA research explored the voice-hearing experience, an area which remains part of my wider professional interest in non-ordinary experience, spiritual crisis and altered states of consciousness. Other longstanding areas of interest include death and dying, psychedelic experience and questions concerning consciousness.
My early professional background was in complementary and spiritual practice. This eventually led me towards formal psychotherapy training as I became increasingly interested in understanding the psychological and emotional complexity of the people I was working with.
That breadth of experience continues to inform my work today. My approach is integrative and takes account of the different dimensions of a person's life — psychological, emotional, relational, behavioural, embodied and, where relevant to the individual, existential or spiritual.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Psychedelic Integration
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£75 per 1 hour session.
Further information
I work with a broad range of psychological and emotional difficulties, with particular experience in anxiety and anxiety-related disorders.
My practice also provides space for spiritual and existential concerns, questions of meaning and belief, and unusual or non-ordinary experiences such as voice hearing and visions. These can be explored without requiring them to fit within any particular psychological or spiritual explanation.
