About me
Do you find that anxiety or self-criticism is having too much influence in your life? As a therapist, I believe that meaningful change begins within a safe and supportive relationship.
My work focuses on helping individuals understand their difficulties, reduce the impact of shame and self-criticism, and develop greater emotional resilience. I will work with you to explore patterns that might be keeping you stuck and build more helpful, compassionate ways of responding to life’s challenges.
I have a particular interest in supporting people who experience anxiety, worry, and low self-worth. In this work, I often draw on Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). CFT helps calm the body’s threat system and build the capacity to respond with kindness rather than self-criticism. By changing the way you relate to anxiety and difficult emotions, CFT can reduce the sense of struggle and open up more space for calm, resilience, and self-acceptance.
My aim is to help you develop a kinder relationship with yourself, so that—even in the face of anxiety—you can move toward living a fuller, more meaningful life with greater confidence and balance.
I offer a free telephone consultation to give us both the opportunity to consider whether working together feels right. Sessions take place face-to-face at a clinic in Newbury.
Training, qualifications & experience
Degree in Psychology and Media Studies
Postgraduate diploma in psychodynamic counselling
L4 diploma in Integrative Counselling with the CPTA
Registered Member of the BACP
Writer of psychological content for registered practitioners
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
Fees
£70.00 per session
Further information
I also offer clients the chance to work creatively if they would like to. Expressing ourselves can come in many forms. For those who struggle with the more conventional ways of opening up, I will explore poetry, art, metaphor and more as ways to calm the nervous system or to delve deeper into that understanding of experience.
Many clients find that incorporating creativity into sessions and cultivating imagination, gives access to new ways of exploring feelings. Creativity also helps to develop confidence, enabling us to find joy in our ability to communicate in a way that resonates personally.
However, I know that working creatively does not work for all clients. No matter how our work unfolds, I offer a safe relationship to explore challenges at a pace set by the client.
