About me
You might find yourself snapping at someone you love and not quite knowing why. Lying awake turning the same thought over. Saying yes when every part of you wanted to say no. Feeling exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix.
These aren't signs that something is fundamentally wrong with you. They're often signs that something learned long ago is still running in the background — shaping how you respond, how you relate, and how you see yourself. I offer a space to begin to understand where these patterns come from, and how new ways of relating to yourself and others can start to emerge.
My Approach
My approach is relational and integrative, with Transactional Analysis (TA) as a core framework guiding my work. TA is a practical and insightful model that helps us understand how we think, feel, and relate to others — and how patterns we learned earlier in life can continue to shape our relationships, decisions, and sense of self today.
Using TA, we might explore the internal voices that influence how you speak to yourself, the roles you find yourself repeating in relationships, or the unconscious "life scripts" that quietly shape how you expect life to unfold. Becoming aware of these patterns opens up new choices — and new ways of being.
Alongside TA, I draw on psychodynamic and relational ideas, paying close attention to the emotional experience that unfolds in the therapy room itself. The patterns that show up in your relationships outside therapy can often emerge between us too. Explored safely and thoughtfully, these moments can become some of the most powerful opportunities for insight and change.
What I Work With
Many people come to therapy not because something is catastrophically wrong, but because they feel stuck or disconnected in ways they can't quite articulate. You don't need a diagnosis or a crisis to seek support — sometimes it's simply a feeling that you've been running on empty for too long, or that the same situations keep finding you.
I work with adults who might be thinking things like:
- Why do I keep ending up here again?
- I don't know why I feel like this — I just do
- I'm holding it together on the outside but struggling underneath
- I'm so hard on myself and I don't know how to stop
- Something needs to change but I don't know what
More broadly, I work with anxiety and worry, low mood and depression, relationship difficulties, self-criticism and low self-worth, stress and burnout, loss and bereavement, and questions of identity and direction.
About Me
I'm a BACP-registered psychotherapeutic counsellor based in Northumberland. I work with adults in person across Northumberland and online with clients throughout the UK.
Before retraining as a therapist, I spent over a decade working online in a coaching and educational capacity — experience that gave me a deep appreciation for how much can be held and explored in a virtual space, and why the quality of the relationship matters far more than the medium.
I'm drawn to this work because I believe human struggles make sense when understood in context. People aren't broken — they're often running patterns that once served a purpose, in situations that no longer exist. My role is to help you see those patterns clearly, with curiosity rather than judgement, and to explore what else might be possible.
Getting Started
I offer a free 15-minute phone call to explore what you're looking for, explain how the process works, and get a feel for whether we might be a good fit. There's no obligation to commit, and no pressure either way — it's simply a chance to talk.
If we're both happy to move forward, we'll arrange your first session from there.
- Sessions are 50 minutes
- I work with adults (18+)
- In-person sessions in Morpeth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Whittingham
- Online sessions via secure video (Zoom) — available UK-wide
Training, qualifications & experience
- Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Northern Guild (BACP-accredited)
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)
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).
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