About me
I offer a range of therapeutic approaches, tailored to suit your individual needs. By creating a safe, non-judgmental space, you can explore your experiences and emotions to develop greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and a renewed sense of wholeness. Working collaboratively, we shape each session to best support your personal process.
My sessions are held with a trauma-informed awareness. They are carefully paced, and there’s no expectation to ‘reveal all’. My intention is that you leave each session feeling grounded, supported, and cared for — never empty or overwhelmed. Reaching out for therapy is a brave and meaningful step. I work with empathy — and with humour where it feels right — to honour the full complexity of life, from its deepest challenges to its smallest, most important wins.
I offer face-to-face sessions in a calm, spacious therapy room outside my home in Harbertonford, as well as in Totnes. We can also meet outdoors—to do walk-and-talk sessions and to be in nature. Many clients prefer the flexibility of online or telephone sessions, and a hybrid arrangement is always possible to suit your needs.
"Although humans rarely die from trauma, if we do not resolve it, our lives can be severely diminished by its effects. Some people have even described this situation as a “living death" - Peter A. Levine, Healing Trauma
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold an advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling (MNCPS Accred), which includes Transpersonal, Gestalt and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, as well as a foundation in integrative Sand Play and foundation in Therapeutic Art.
The sessions are client-led, and we work with the body and mind to quieten anxiety and bring a sense of safety and stability into being so that life's experiences can be digested and healthy adaptations can be made. I may invite you to engage with therapeutic techniques, including mindfulness, visualisation and breathwork.
Personal experience with chronic health conditions has provided much insight into healthcare management, both within the NHS and complementary and holistic approaches. We can work together with the awareness of the mental toll a physical health condition can take, with the ongoing and variable symptoms and challenges. We can also explore the spiritual and emotional process of coming to terms with surgeries, physical pain, and adaptations, as well as the energy required to manage one's own healthcare and day-to-day activities.
My background is in bodywork (Sports massage therapy, Thai Yoga Massage, and Remedial Massage techniques), studying yoga in India, and teaching teen yoga in education and mental health settings. My studies in yoga included meditation and breathing techniques, which I incorporate into counselling sessions when appropriate. I have an ongoing interest and focus on how trauma is stored in the body and consequently affects our health and relationship to life; therefore, I undertook CPD in Somatic Experiencing - a pioneering body-oriented approach to relieving the physical, psychological, emotional, and physiological effects of acute and chronic stress and PTSD.
Further studies include the Living Well Dying Well Training, a person-centred approach to death and dying, including:
- Understanding grief
- Emotional and spiritual responses to death
- Physical changes at the end of life
- Increasing comfort, integrative health, and
- Supportive therapies
- Rituals and practices within cultural and faith groups
- Socio-legal requirements
- Spiritual and self-care practices
- Funeral directors’ practices
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Grief counselling and end of life care
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 - £70.00
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