About me
I offer warm, client-led, trauma-informed counselling and psychotherapy for adults navigating post-traumatic growth, life transitions, grief & neurodivergence. I have a particular interest in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), intuitives, creatives & neurodivergent people - people who may experience the world deeply, notice things others might miss, or have a rich and complex inner world.
- Are you seeking more freedom and authenticity in your life?
- Has loss or grief left you searching for deeper meaning and purpose?
- Do you long to live a more creative and embodied life - connected to your self and what matters to you?
- Has life dulled your sense of connection, leaving you longing for something more meaningful?
- Have you already engaged in significant therapy and now want space to integrate what you've discovered, rather than simply revisit the past?
- Are you at a point of transition, wondering what you want to take with you and what you might be ready to leave behind?
Remembering & Moving Forward - sometimes life can take us away from parts of ourselves. Our creativity, intuition, confidence, sense of possibility or connection with what matters to us can become quieter beneath the demands of life, relationships, loss or difficult experiences. Therapy can offer a place to pause and listen inwardly.
Together, we can explore what has shaped you, what is here for you now, and what might be emerging. There may be things you want to understand, things you want to make sense of, things you want to reclaim, and things you are discovering for the first time. I can support you to reconnect with yourself, honour your sensitivity, and step into a deeper, more authentic relationship with your body, your creativity, and your life.
Experiences I Can Help With:
- Self-awareness & understanding yourself more fully
- Integrating previous therapeutic work & exploring what comes next
- Life transitions, identity shifts & new chapters
- Spirituality, meaning, purpose & spiritual emergence
- Intuition, creativity, embodiment & your sense of self
- Sensitivity & neurodivergence
- Trauma, grief, loss & the experiences that have shaped you
- Relationships, boundaries & ways of relating
- Authenticity & self-discovery
- Mind-body connection, felt sense & embodied experience
How I Work:
I offer in-person counselling in Marsden, Huddersfield, and online therapy across the UK & Europe. My approach is warm, person-centred and relational. I see you as a whole person, shaped by your experiences but not defined by them. Your thoughts, feelings, body, relationships, imagination, creativity and ways of making sense of the world all have a place in our work. I draw on creative, somatic, existential and transpersonal approaches alongside parts-work or Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Our sessions may include talking, reflection, body awareness, creative expression, imagery, movement, parts work or silence. Sometimes there may be a particular experience we want to explore; sometimes something less defined may emerge. I will meet you where you are and we can find our way together. I particularly enjoy working with reflective, sensitive, creative and curious people, including those who have already engaged in significant therapeutic work and want somewhere to pause, integrate what they have learned and explore what is emerging now.
Creative Therapy
Creative therapy offers a gentle way to explore what might feel difficult to put into words. Through drawing, painting, imagination and metaphor something may emerge that you already sense but haven't quite been able to articulate.
You don't need to consider yourself creative, and there is no expectation to make anything 'good'. Creativity can simply become another language within the therapeutic space. It can offer a different way of exploring emotions, memories, relationships, identity and inner experience - especially when talking feels too much, or not quite enough. For some people, creativity also provides a way of remembering parts of themselves that have become quieter - curiosity, playfulness, imagination, pleasure or a sense of possibility.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy invites you to slow down and gently turn toward your body’s inner knowing. By bringing curious, compassionate attention to sensations, breath and movement, we listen for what’s held within - the stories, tensions or truths waiting to be felt and understood. As you connect with your felt sense, new possibilities for healing, clarity and grounded presence can begin to emerge.
Who Am I:
I am a Counsellor and Psychotherapist offering a trauma-informed, holistic and creative approach. I bring a warm, intuitive, and grounded presence. This creates a safe space where you can feel truly seen and gently supported, free from pressure or judgment. I hold spaciousness in the therapeutic relationship, listening with care, honouring your inner wisdom, and walking alongside you with compassion and depth. Together, this process can help you come home to yourself and at your own pace.
I also offer restorative, creative and somatic supervision for Counsellors & Psychotherapists.
Grounded Connection | Creative & Somatic Supervision, Counselling & Psychotherapy in Marsden, Huddersfield & Online across the UK & EU
How to Get Started:
📍 Offering in-person counselling in Marsden, Huddersfield
💻 Providing secure online therapy throughout the UK & Europe
If you feel ready to take the next step reach out today:
🌿 Learn more at www.groundedconnection.co.uk
📩 Contact me via email: hello@groundedconnection.co.uk
📱 Contact me via Whatsapp: 07449971613
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications
- MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy (Contemporary Creative Approaches)
- Creative Integrative Supervision Certificate
- CPCAB Trauma-Informed Breathwork Coach
- BA (Hons) Social Work
Registrations
- MBACP
- Professional Standards Authority: Accredited Register (PSA)
- Creative Counsellors: Professional Member
- International Breathwork Foundation (IBF)
- Social Work England
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- The Mythic Body: A 12-month course of mythic study, somatic practice, storytelling, song, threshold exploration and nature immersion (on-going)
- NeuroAffective Touch® – A Somatic Toolkit for Healing Emotional and Relational Trauma
- Carolyn Spring – Working with Trauma; Trauma & the Body
- Deb Dana – The Power of Polyvagal (12-month journey - ongoing)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Foundations and Parts Work
- Working at Relational Depth
- Parts Work & Animism: Confronting the Limits of Individualism
- The Art of Interdependence
- Intuitive Herbalism Immersion
- Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids – Bardic Grade (ongoing)
- The Emerald Podcast (Patreon learning community)
- Open University – Counselling Online
- British Wheel of Yoga: Foundation Course
- Indian Head Massage & Reiki
I bring over 15 years of experience supporting others including as a Social Worker, Mental Health Advocate and Counsellor. My academic and vocational training blends depth, creativity and embodiment.
Member organisations
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Somatic and relational awareness in the present moment
- Breathwork coaching and conscious embodiment
- Reclaiming body autonomy and building a felt sense of safety
- Exploring and healing intergenerational trauma
- Inner-child connection and nurturing unmet needs
- Parts work and Internal Family Systems (IFS) exploration
- Seeking meaning, purpose, and soul-aligned living
- Expanding capacity for play, pleasure, and joy
- Integration of psychedelic or non-ordinary states of consciousness
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
50 mins - £70
90 minutes - £125
Block of 10 (50 mins) - £650
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