About me
Couples and Relationship Therapy
Couples and relationship therapy offers a space to explore the challenges, tensions, and patterns that may be impacting your relationship. Therapy can support you in navigating areas where communication has broken down, where disconnection has emerged, or where the relationship may need greater understanding, renegotiation, or change. I work with a wide range of relationship structures and relational dynamics, including romantic partnerships (monogamous and ethically non-monogamous), friendships, sibling relationships, and parent–child relationships.
My approach centres both the relationship itself and the individuals within it. Often, people arrive in therapy feeling caught in recurring conflict, misalignment, emotional distance, or uncertainty about how to move forward. Together, we create a space where each person can feel heard without losing sight of the wider relational dynamic at play. Building trust, emotional safety, and clarity is central to the process, allowing us to explore difficult material with care, honesty, and accountability.
At times, therapy may support partners in finding their way back to one another; at others, it may involve navigating conscious uncoupling, separation, or significant relational change. Relationships are often shaped by earlier attachment experiences, family issues, cultural conditioning, trauma, and learned ways of relating. In our work together, we can begin to understand how these histories may be influencing your present dynamic, communication patterns, emotional responses, and capacity for connection.
I work in an intersectional and affirming way, recognising that relationships do not exist in isolation from the wider social, cultural, and political contexts we inhabit. I have experience supporting LGBTQ+ clients, neurodivergent individuals, people navigating cross-cultural relationships, and those whose identities or relationship structures may sit outside dominant norms. Together, we can explore how experiences of difference, marginalisation, masking, shame, family expectation, identity development, or systemic pressure may be impacting your relationship and sense of self within it.
I am also interested in the wider ecology surrounding a relationship. Many of us are culturally conditioned to seek the majority of our emotional support from one person, often a partner, despite human beings fundamentally thriving within broader networks of care, community, friendship, and interdependence. Alongside the relationship you bring into the therapy room, I consider the wider systems around you: family, friendships, community, cultural values, chosen family, and other meaningful connections. Exploring these dynamics can offer important insight into the pressures, strengths, and relational patterns shaping your partnership.
Individual Therapy
I work with people who feel in-between - between identities, roles, or different parts of themselves. This often includes those who have felt unseen or misunderstood, including members of the LGBTQ+, Neurodivergent community and others whose experiences don’t always fit neatly into the world around them.
I have extensive experience supporting clients who have lived through childhood sexual abuse, narcissistic abuse, and intergenerational trauma. These kinds of issues are often prevalent for individuals in 12 Step Recovery. If you are working any 12-step programmes such as SLAA, ACA or UA, I can support you alongside.
At the heart of my work is a belief that nothing within you is wrong - only that some parts of you may have had to go quiet, hide, or fragment in order to survive. Working in this way is supportive for individuals suffering with low-self -esteem, depression, suicidal thoughts or anxiety.
Together, we create a steady, compassionate space where these parts can begin to be seen and heard. I support you in gently reconnecting with your inner world - especially the younger, more vulnerable aspects of yourself - so that what once felt separate can begin to come back into relationship.
This is a process of integration: bringing your scattered parts into a greater sense of wholeness, clarity, and belonging within yourself.
I have been working in the field of mental health since 2009. I have a background in mental health user involvement and am passionate about placing the client's experience at the centre of therapy. I have worked with organisations such as Gendered Intelligence, Stonewall, Bipolar UK, the Advocacy Project and the NHS.
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Training, qualifications & experience
"It’s the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals" - Yalom
My psychotherapy training was in Patricia Clarkson's Relational Model, which draws on theory from psychodynamic, humanistic, person-centred, and transpersonal ideas of therapy. I bring a keen focus to the relationship within the work I do, and believe that it is within this container the healing can take place. Alongside this, I have undergone additional training in Couples and Relationship Therapy in the Gestalt Method.
I am also a qualified Reiki Master and use this in my therapeutic practice to help connect with the body if this feels aligned for the client and the work; Reiki helps the body to relax, intuition to arise, and stored energy in the body to release. Additionally, I use a technique called Focussing, a meditative practice that aids bodily enquiry and deeper listening to the inner experience. Where helpful to your process, I use chair work, music, drawing, and writing as therapeutic aids to help with your self-expression.
I am trauma-informed in the work I do and work deeply with clients to identify what wounds are holding them back in life, helping them to lean into the pain so it can receive the attention it needs to heal. We are taught to avoid or fix our pain; this is a misguided myth. In the context of therapy, the solution is in building enough trust in the therapeutic relationship to make space for the grief to breathe. In doing this, inner freedom is enabled. It's hard work, but it's heart work, and I am here to guide and walk alongside you in this process.
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
£60.00 - £120.00
Additional information
The initial session will be an opportunity for you to discuss with me what your concerns are and what you would like to explore in counselling. If it feels like a good fit, we can arrange for further sessions.
I encourage those with wealth privilege to pay it forward so there is equity in the service. My pay scale is £80-£120 per 50-minute session for individual therapy. A number of concessionary sessions outside of this pay scale are available for those in need. Please let me know what you can afford on a weekly basis, and we can go from there. I work with people on an individual basis to come to an arrangement.
For couples and relationship therapy, I have a sliding scale of £120-160. After the initial session, this work is usually contracted for 6 sessions, subject to review, and can be weekly or fortnightly in frequency.
Further information
I am available for sessions Monday-Friday 10.30am to 6pm.
I work in face-to-face practice in Brighton with an online Zoom practice offering therapy UK-wide and abroad.
Therapy sessions are usually on a weekly basis at the same allotted time; there can be flexibility with this depending on your needs and my availability.
