About me
Therapy for women, by women.
Somewhere you don't have to hold it all together.
You might be the woman who copes. The woman who keeps everything going, who listens to everyone else, who says "I'm fine" because that is easier than explaining. And yet something isn't right.
Perhaps you lie awake going over things. Perhaps you feel flat, or on edge, or as if you are watching your own life from the outside. Perhaps something happened, recently or a long time ago, and you have never had the room to talk about it. Or perhaps you cannot put your finger on it at all. You just know you are tired of carrying it on your own.
Counselling is not just somewhere to be deeply heard. It is a place where things change. Women come to me because something in their life is not working, and they leave with a clearer understanding of why, and with more choice about what happens next.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a BSc degree in Humanistic Counselling from the Metanoia Institute in London. Humanistic counselling is a rigorous, evidence-informed approach built on a simple principle: people change when they are understood accurately and treated as the expert on their own life. My training taught me how to make that happen in practice, session by session, rather than leaving it to chance.
Before counselling, I worked as a nurse in hospital and community settings for 18 years. I have sat with people on the worst days of their lives. I know what illness, exhaustion and fear do to a person, and I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of a system that is rushed and does not always listen. That experience shaped the way I work: unhurried, practical, and not easily shocked. Nothing you bring will be too much.
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
£65.00 per session
Additional information
- Sessions online or in person in.
- Session length 50mins, sessions at £65 in person or online, daytime / evening availability
When I work
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Further information
What changes
Being properly understood is where it starts, not where it ends. Once you can see how you came to think, feel and cope the way you do, you gain something you didn’t have before: the ability to choose. Patterns you have repeated for years become visible, and once visible they can be changed. Reactions that used to take you over lose some of their grip. Decisions you have been circling for months become clearer.
In practice, women I have worked with often describe small but significant shifts: saying “no” without being riddled with guilt; ending or repairing a relationship they had been stuck in; daring to acknowledge and grieve their loss; a person, a role, their health, or the future they once imagined; and the ability to start making new plans for their future
I cannot promise you a particular outcome, and I would be wary of anyone who did. What I can offer is trained, skilled attention to what is going on for you, and a relationship in which change becomes possible.
Why my practice is for women only
Most counsellors work with everyone. I have chosen to work only with women exclusively, so every part of my practice, from the way I listen to the way I think about what you bring, is shaped around women's lives.
Here is what that means in the room
You do not have to translate. If you talk about your body, your periods, pregnancy, miscarriage, the menopause, or the way a doctor spoke to you, I will understand the ground you are standing on. If you talk about the mental load, the caring, the guilt, the sense you’re never quite doing enough, you will not have to prove it is real before we can look at it.
You do not have to manage the room. Many women spend their lives softening what they say, reading the mood, looking after other people's comfort. Here, you can stop. You can be angry, blunt, tearful, messy or silent, and none of it needs explaining or apologising for.
If a man has hurt you, or if being around men has ever felt unsafe, you do not have to explain that either. You can simply arrive.
And you will be believed. If you have been talked over, dismissed, or told you were overreacting, whether by a partner, a family member or a professional, that experience walks into therapy with you. I know that. Part of my work is supporting you to trust what you already know about your own life.
Who I work with
Women of all ages and from all walks of life. Some come feeling anxious, low, burnt out or stuck. Some come after a loss, a change, or a relationship that has hurt them. Some come because they are the person everyone else leans on, and have nobody to lean on themselves, or even feel unworthy at the thought of needing to lean. Some know exactly why they are here, others simply feel something needs to change.
I know feeling safe in therapy is harder for some women than others, especially if you have previous experiences of being misunderstood, judged or excluded because of who you are. I particularly welcome LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and disabled women and the place where I see women’s face to face is ramped for wheelchair access. I will ask what you need rather than assume, whether that is a different pace, a different way of communicating, breaks, or simply not having to educate, justify or over explain to me about your life before we can begin. Importantly, you are met for who you are, as you are.
How we work together
My starting point is always you: your experience, your feelings and your own understanding of what is happening in your life. I won't tell you what you should do, and I won't assume I know you better than you know yourself. I don't see you as someone who needs fixing.
Therapy with me is a working relationship. We explore and make sense of things together, at a pace that feels right for you. That might mean looking at what is happening now, at experiences from the past, or at patterns you find yourself repeating. Where it supports the process, we get curious about your thoughts, feelings and responses, and ask whether the ways you learned to cope are still serving you, and what might offer you more choice when they’re not.
