About me
If you are reading this, you may be at an important threshold. Old ways of being, within yourself or in your relationship, may no longer be serving you, and you may be wondering whether another way is possible.
I am a Psychotherapist and Couples Therapist working with adult individuals and couples. My work focuses on attachment, emotional safety, and the patterns of connection and disconnection that shape our closest relationships, including the relationship we have with ourselves.
Many couples I work with care deeply about one another but find themselves stuck in repeating cycles of conflict, distance or misunderstanding. Despite goodwill and effort, the same moments escalate or shut down, leaving both partners feeling worn down, unheard or alone.
I specialise in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), an attachment-based approach that helps couples understand and change the patterns that keep pulling them apart.
Alongside my couples work, I offer individual psychotherapy grounded particularly in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), working with adults who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or caught in internal patterns, compulsions and behaviours that no longer feel sustainable.
How I Work
My approach is grounded in attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Psychosynthesis and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB).
At the heart of my work is the understanding that many of the ways we struggle make sense. Patterns that now feel frustrating or difficult to change may once have been important ways of surviving, protecting ourselves, maintaining connection or managing experiences that felt too much to hold.
My approach is relational, compassionate and experiential. Rather than beginning with what needs to be fixed, we become curious about what is happening and what may be needed for something different to become possible.
Working With Couples
I work with couples who care deeply about one another but feel caught in repeating patterns of conflict, distance or misunderstanding. Some have gradually lost connection over time; others are navigating an affair, betrayal or significant rupture in trust.
The difficulty is rarely a lack of love — rather, it is the pattern that hijacks connection under stress.
In our work together, we slow these moments right down. We explore what sits beneath escalation or withdrawal — often fear, hurt, longing, or the need to know that we matter — and begin to recognise the cycle you have become caught within.
From here, I support you to risk responding differently in the moments that matter most.
Over time, negative cycles can soften, emotional safety can grow and trust can be rebuilt.
Working With Individuals
I offer individual psychotherapy for adults who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or caught in internal patterns, compulsions and behaviours that no longer feel sustainable.
My individual work is grounded in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and depth psychotherapy.
With tenderness, I will guide you to recognise and pay attention to the different parts of you that may be carrying trauma, grief, loss, shame, loneliness, overwhelm or pain. Other parts may have learned to manage or protect against these experiences through striving, perfectionism, withdrawing, pleasing others, staying in control, or through alcohol, substances or other compulsive behaviours.
Rather than treating these parts as problems to be eliminated, we become curious about them. I will support you to understand how these ways of being often make very good sense when seen as adaptive survival strategies that may once have served or protected you.
As we begin to meet these parts with greater calmness, curiosity and self-compassion, something can begin to shift. There can be more space for connectedness and creativity, and greater courage and confidence to make changes that previously felt difficult or out of reach.
My work is also informed by depth and transpersonal psychotherapy and a longstanding engagement with imagination. Where it feels meaningful, there may be space for dreams, image, metaphor, story and symbol, as well as questions of meaning, spirituality and purpose. I also welcome people seeking to integrate profound, unusual or psychedelic experiences.
None of this is imposed upon the work. We begin with you, and with what you bring.
Over time, this work can support greater steadiness, self-awareness and resilience — and a gentler relationship with yourself.
Specialist Background in Neurodiversity and Communication
Alongside psychotherapy, I am an HCPC-registered speech and language therapist with over 22 years’ experience working with neurodivergent individuals and families.
I have specialist experience in autism, ADHD, developmental language disorder (DLD), and stammering. This neuro-affirming background informs my sensitivity to differences in processing, regulation and communication within both individuals and couples.
It also helps me recognise that what may look like withdrawal, shutdown, urgency or reactivity can make considerably more sense when we understand what a person’s nervous system is trying to manage or protect.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a psychotherapist and couples therapist with advanced training in attachment-based and relational approaches.
I am trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), having completed both the Externship and Core Skills through ICEEFT.
I am IFS Institute trained in Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level One and Level Two)
I hold a Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling from the Psychosynthesis Trust / Middlesex University (2017), accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Alongside my psychotherapy practice, I am an HCPC-registered speech and language therapist with over 22 years’ experience working with children, young people and adults across the UK, Australia, and East Africa (Kenya and Uganda). I hold a BSc (First Class Honours) in Speech and Language Sciences from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
My work is supported by regular specialist supervision and ongoing advanced training, including current training in Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB). I adhere to the BACP Ethical Framework and am deeply committed to continuing professional development.
I am a member of these organisations:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP – Registered Member)
- International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
- British Emotionally Focused Therapy Centre (BEFT)
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 - £120.00
Additional information
Couples therapy: £120 per 60-minute session
Individual psychotherapy: £100 per 60-minute session
Nature based psychotherapy (individual): £100 per 60-minute session, £120 per 80-minute session.
Sessions are usually held weekly.
I practise online and in person from Balquhidder, with a hybrid option available.
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