About me
Adversity rarely arrives as a single event. More often it accumulates: a bereavement, an illness, a relationship that ended badly, a career that quietly stopped fitting, until the life you had been counting on living no longer seems available to you.
I work with adults who have come through something difficult and want more than a return to how things were. Not everyone who has struggled wants to be restored to their former self; many arrive wanting to understand what the experience has cost them, what it has revealed, and what might now be built on the other side of it. Research on post-traumatic growth suggests this is neither naive nor unusual. Difficulty does not automatically produce growth, but growth is far more common after adversity than we tend to assume, and it is more likely when someone has the space to make sense of what happened rather than simply move past it.
The people I work best with tend to be capable, reflective, and already doing a great deal on their own. They come with anxiety, low mood, exhaustion, grief, a loss of direction, or the particular disorientation that follows a major change. What they usually want is not reassurance or a set of techniques, but a serious thinking partner, someone who will take the complexity of their situation seriously and not rush them toward a tidy resolution.
My approach is humanistic and integrative. That means I do not arrive with a formula. I am interested in what motivates you, what you are moving toward, and what has quietly gone out of reach, and in the difference between the changes you have chosen and the ones that were chosen for you. That distinction matters, because change that comes from your own reasons tends to hold, and change adopted to satisfy someone else tends not to.
I am a BACP-accredited counsellor and a doctoral researcher, and my research directly informs my practice. Sessions are held online by video or voice calls, which means I work with clients across the UK and internationally, including people in time zones where finding a suitable therapist locally is difficult.
Training, qualifications & experience
I first trained as a therapeutic counsellor and qualified in 2017. The person-centred approach was what drew me in, and it is still the ground I work from: the conviction that people carry their own direction, and that my job is to make room for it rather than supply it. What that training gave me was the capacity to sit with someone in genuine difficulty without needing to fix it quickly, which is harder than it sounds and is still the most useful thing I do.
But practising raised questions my training had not prepared me for, and I wanted better answers than I had. So I took a degree in psychology through the Open University, studying alongside my practice. That gave me the wider map, how memory, motivation, development and emotion actually work, and what the evidence does and does not support. In practice it means that when something in your experience has a known shape, I can tell you so, which is often a relief.
The master's in health psychology took me further into the relationship between mind and body: exhaustion, illness, pain, the strain of managing a long-term condition, the way stress stops being metaphorical. It also grounded me in how change actually happens, what helps someone act differently, not just understand themselves better.
I am now working towards a doctorate in psychotherapy, researching what actually matters to people about the changes therapy brings, which ones land, and why. It keeps me reading closely and thinking carefully, and it means what I bring into sessions comes from current evidence rather than received wisdom.
None of this was about collecting qualifications. Each step came from a question the one before it had opened and could not close, and all of it points the same way: towards understanding you more fully, and being more useful to you because of it.
Qualifications and memberships
- Therapeutic Counselling, 2017
- BSc (Hons) Psychology, The Open University, 2022
- MSc Health Psychology, University of Surrey, 2024
- Doctorate in Psychotherapy, Metanoia Institute / Middlesex University - in progress
- Accredited member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP Accred)
- Enhanced DBS
- Professional indemnity insurance
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
£48.00 - £65.00
Additional information
Sessions are 50 minutes. You can book in whichever way suits you.
Pay as you go, £65 per session. You book each session individually from my calendar, at whatever time works for you that week. Maximum flexibility, no commitment beyond the session in front of you.
Blocks of four, £60 per session. If you know you want to work for a stretch rather than week by week, a block of four brings the fee down and saves you booking each time.
A regular weekly slot, a flat monthly fee, held for you. The same time every week, reserved whether or not you use it. Nothing to book, nothing to remember, and no risk of finding your preferred time has gone. And if you need flexibility, you have direct access to my calendar instead; you can shift a session or book ahead as far as you like, without a payment step each time, because the month is already settled. It is charged as a monthly subscription of £240 rather than per session, which works out at between £48 and £60 a session depending on how many weeks the month has. Full terms are in the working agreement I send before we start.
Most people who are working on something substantial end up preferring the regular slot, and not only for the price. A fixed time takes the weekly decision out of it, and there is usually a point in therapy where the work gets harder before it gets easier, which is exactly when a session you have to actively rebook is the one that quietly does not get rebooked. Having the time already there protects the work from that. It also builds a rhythm, and rhythm matters more in this than people expect.
The free 15-minute introductory call is exactly that, free, with no obligation to book anything afterwards.
Further information
All my sessions are held online by video or voice call, depending on the client's preference. Some people assume this is a lesser version of in-person work; the evidence does not support that, and online therapy shows broadly comparable outcomes for most common difficulties. What it does change is access. I work with clients across the UK and with people living abroad, including those in places where finding a therapist who speaks your language, or who understands the culture you come from, is genuinely difficult. It also removes the practical obstacles that stop a lot of people starting at all. No commute, no waiting room, no half-day taken off work. Some people have their session at home; others use a lunch break, or find an hour somewhere quiet between other commitments. For many, that is the difference between having therapy and continuing to intend to.
What sessions are like
Sessions are 50 minutes, usually weekly, but that can vary depending on each person's needs. Sessions are booked by the client directly from my calendar, at a time that they have chosen to be convenient for them. I do not work from a manual or a fixed number of sessions. Some people come with something specific and finish within a few months; others stay longer because the work opens out. Others approach therapy as ongoing growing and developmental support. We review how it is going often enough that you always know where you stand, and you are free to stop at any point.
Starting
I offer a free 15-minute introductory call. There is no pressure in it and nothing to prepare; it is simply a chance to hear how I work and decide whether I am the right person for you. Fit matters more than credentials in this work, and it is worth taking a few minutes to check.
Fees
Sessions are £65. I hold a small number of reduced-fee places and am happy to be asked.
