About me
You’ve spent your whole life adapting — working harder than everyone else, feeling different without being able to explain why, and telling yourself the problem was you. Then comes the diagnosis. ADHD. Autism. And suddenly, the story you’ve been telling yourself for years doesn’t quite fit anymore.
A recent neurodevelopmental diagnosis doesn’t just explain the past. It opens a door: the chance to stop measuring yourself against a standard that was never designed for how you think, process, and move through the world.
I work with adults who have recently received — or are exploring — a diagnosis of ADHD or autism, and who are ready to do more than manage symptoms. The work we do together is about understanding what the diagnosis actually means for you: not the clinical definition, but your life, your history, your relationships, and what comes next.
What this work often includes:
- Revisiting your past with a new lens — understanding experiences of struggle, exhaustion, or feeling “too much” or “not enough” through the clarity a diagnosis can now offer.
- Releasing the accumulated self-blame and shame that built up before you had language for your experience.
- Exploring what unmasking means for you: finding out who you are when you’re not spending energy performing neurotypicality.
- Identifying practical accommodations — in your routines, environment, relationships, and work — that fit how your brain actually works, rather than the one you’ve been trying to have.
- Building a new relationship with yourself: one based on accurate self-understanding, not on how well you can pass
This is not about fixing you. It’s about making room for who you already are — and building a life that
reflects that.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Education & Specialisations:
- Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
- Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist.
- Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and Nutritional Interventions (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, and Obesity).
- BSc Psychology.
- My therapeutic approach:
I am an integrative therapist, drawing from evidence-based approaches shaped to each individual. For adults navigating a new ADHD or autism diagnosis, my work centers less on symptom management
and more on narrative change: replacing the old story — the one built on inadequacy, difference, and not knowing why — with a grounded, compassionate, and accurate understanding of how you are
wired.
My approach typically draws on:- Person-Centred Therapy – Putting you at the center of your healing journey.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – Practical tools for changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours.
- EFT: Understanding the functionality of emotions and what to do with them.
- Attachment theories: understanding how you hold yourself in relationships.
- Mindfulness techniques – Calming your nervous system and allowing the body and mind to feel safety.
The thread running through all of it is the same: helping you move from a life organised around masking and overcompensating, toward one organised around self- knowledge, acceptance, and genuine accommodation.
Sessions are available online (UK and EU).
- Clinical experience:
- Supporting neurodivergent individuals.
- Trauma recovery and healing.
- Relationship and interpersonal difficulties.
- Life transitions and major changes.
- Chronic conditions and their impact on quality of life.
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 specialise in supporting adults navigating a recent ADHD or autism diagnosis. My focus is the identity work that follows: challenging the old narrative of failure or difference, building genuine self-acceptance, and designing a life with accommodations that fit your actual neurology — not the neurotypical standard you’ve been trying to meet.
I am neurodiversity-affirming.
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
Concessions offered for
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