About me
I am an experienced psychotherapist and trauma specialist. I work with a variety of presenting issues, including complex trauma, childhood abuse and neglect, attachment issues, limerence, religious or spiritual abuse, anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, relationship difficulties, neurodivergence, low self-worth, health-related psychological distress, and the impact of growing up with parental addiction. For many clients, trauma sits beneath the presenting difficulty: experiences that have shaped the nervous system, identity, relationships, faith, body, or sense of safety. My work suits clients seeking deeper, longer-term therapeutic change. My approach is warm, direct, clinically thoughtful and tailored to each person. I help clients understand emotional patterns, process unresolved experiences, strengthen self-worth, and develop grounded ways of coping in a steady, non-judgemental space.
There is no one-size-fits-all in therapy. I work integratively, drawing from trauma-informed psychotherapy, attachment theory, EMDR, somatic therapy, neuroscience, parts work, and relational and psychodynamic approaches. This means therapy is shaped around you: your nervous system, your history, your pace, your goals, and the way you make sense of yourself and the world.
Many people come to therapy because something in life has become too difficult to manage alone. You may feel anxious, stuck, emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, caught in painful relationship patterns, or exhausted from constantly holding everything together. You may know exactly what has happened to you, or you may simply sense that your reactions feel stronger than the situation seems to explain. Therapy can help you make sense of these patterns with care, depth and clinical clarity.
My work is particularly suited to people who want to understand the roots of their distress. The work may include understanding how earlier experiences, trauma, attachment wounds, family dynamics, cultural or religious messages, grief, loss, shame, fear or survival strategies have shaped the way you relate to yourself and others. The aim is to understand how earlier experiences may still be felt in your nervous system, emotions, relationships and choices.
I offer a neuroaffirmative approach, which means I do not see neurodivergence as something to be corrected or pathologised. I work with ADHD, autism, AuDHD and other forms of neurodivergence in a way that respects difference, sensory needs, masking, burnout, emotional intensity, executive functioning difficulties and the impact of living in environments that may not have understood or supported you.
I also work with limerence: persistent emotional preoccupation, rumination or attachment distress that can feel consuming and difficult to shift. Limerence is often misunderstood, but it can be connected to attachment wounds, unmet emotional needs, trauma, loneliness, shame or nervous system dysregulation. Therapy can help you understand the emotional and attachment patterns beneath limerence while supporting you to regain emotional steadiness and a stronger sense of agency
Trauma can affect the whole person. It can shape the way you think, feel, sleep, trust, connect, work, parent, grieve, relate to others and feel within yourself. Whether your trauma comes from childhood, emotional neglect, abuse or assault, coercive relationships, religious or spiritual abuse, medical experiences, bereavement, parental addiction or prolonged stress, therapy offers a place to process what has happened without forcing, rushing or minimising your experience.
I support clients through infertility, pregnancy-related distress, fear of birth, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, reproductive grief, reproductive trauma and the emotional impact of difficult medical journeys. These experiences can be profoundly lonely, especially when others do not understand the depth of grief, shock, anger, fear, disappointment, or distress connected to fertility, pregnancy, birth or medical experiences. Whether your loss is recent or many years ago, therapy can offer a steady place to process grief, trauma and the emotional impact of what has happened, without rushing, minimising or forcing your experience.
I also support clients who are carrying grief and loss more broadly, including bereavement, relational loss, identity loss and the quieter losses that often go unnamed. Grief is not something to be fixed or hurried. It often needs time, steadiness and careful attention. In our work, there is room for the complexity of grief: sadness, anger, numbness, guilt, confusion and the slow process of learning how to live with what has changed.
I offer specialist support for doctors and medical professionals. Doctors and healthcare professionals often hold immense responsibility while having very little space for their own emotional processing. I work with burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, perfectionism, vicarious trauma, work-related stress, shame, grief after clinical experiences, workplace trauma, professional identity strain, and the pressure of continuing to function while carrying personal distress. Therapy can offer a confidential space to step out of the professional role and attend to the human being beneath it.
I also work with clients experiencing work-related stress, burnout, performance pressure, boundary difficulties, workplace conflict, perfectionism, imposter feelings, loss of confidence, career transitions and the emotional impact of high-pressure environments. My previous experience in Corporate Finance and swim coaching gives me an added understanding of demanding professional cultures, performance expectations, discipline, resilience, pressure, competition and the cost of continually functioning at a high level.
I also work with trainee therapists who are developing their clinical identity while managing the personal and emotional demands of training. Therapy can support you in understanding your own patterns, processing what the training evokes, strengthening self-awareness, and holding the pressure of placement, supervision, client work and academic expectations.
For expats and people living between cultures, therapy can help with identity conflict, displacement, belonging, loneliness, family expectations, cultural grief, and the emotional strain of building a life away from home.
My style is warm, honest and engaged. I offer an active therapeutic presence: listening carefully, reflecting thoughtfully, and helping you connect the dots between your experiences, emotions, nervous system responses and relationship patterns.
To request an appointment, please email me with a brief outline of what you are seeking support with, your availability, and when you would like to begin. The next step is a first assessment session, during which I will consider your current difficulties, relevant history, therapeutic goals, and suitability for ongoing psychotherapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) - EMDR UK Association Registered - EMDR Europe Accredited Training
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision
- Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Psychotherapy
- BA (Hons) Counselling & Psychotherapy - Metanoia Institute
- Diploma in Counselling
- DipHE in Psychology
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.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Insurance companies I work with
- AXA PPP
- BUPA
- WPA
- CIGNA
- AVIVA
- 6. ALLIANZ PARTNERS
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Further information
Commitment to Ethical Practice
I am dedicated to maintaining an ethical and reflective practice. To stay current and ensure the highest standards, I regularly participate in supervision, peer-groups, workshops, and CPDs. This commitment to ongoing learning helps me provide you with the best possible care.
