About me
What I offer
I offer counselling outdoors in and around Sheffield and the Peak District with some sessions available online. Being outside naturally lowers stress, supports nervous system regulation, and helps clients feel more grounded. Walking side-by-side can also ease the pressure of direct eye contact, making it easier to open up. The natural world offers metaphors, space, and calm that can deepen reflection and insight. Whether we’re sitting under a tree or walking a quiet path, nature becomes an active third party in the session - supportive, spacious, and healing. Outdoor therapy invites a slower pace, helping clients reconnect with themselves in an embodied and authentic way.
How I work
I work relationally and pluralistically, which means therapy is a collaborative and flexible process, tailored to you as a unique individual. At the heart of our work is the therapeutic relationship - based on trust, openness, and mutual respect. I draw from a range of therapeutic approaches and we’ll explore together what feels helpful, adjusting as your needs evolve. There’s no one-size-fits-all path; your experiences, values, and preferences shape the direction we take. My role is to walk alongside you, offering support, insight, and space for growth in a way that feels right for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have a Masters in Counselling from Leeds Beckett University and a Level 3 in Integrative Counselling. I have also undertaken training in Understanding Therapeutic Practice in Outdoor Natural Spaces with the Centre for Natural Reflection.
I have experience working with young people from 14 upwards, university students and adults. Material clients have brought to sessions includes relationship issues (of all kinds); neurodivergence; gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity; grief and loss; trauma; abuse of all kinds; friendship; loneliness; overwhelm; racism and other societal inequalities.
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
£48.00 - £55.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Sessions are £55 per hour. Discounted rates available for student therapists.
Payment is required on the day of the session and can be made by cash or bank transfer.
Finding out more
You are warmly invited to get in touch via email, text, or voice message. We will arrange a time where we can meet online or over the phone for around 20 - 30 minutes to explore working together. The first meeting will be charged at a flat fee of £20. If we decide to proceed and you wish to work outside we’ll have a second meeting in the space to explore what working outside means for you and how best we can tailor the process to best suit your needs. The second season will be 50 minutes and will be charged at £55.
These initial sessions will allow us to see whether we are a good fit. We will explore the following things to help me understand how best to support you:
- What you are wanting to explore and any goals you have for therapy.
- Whether you have had therapy before and anything you found helped or hindered that.
- Whether you are having suicidal thoughts or thoughts of harming yourself or others in some way.
- How you support yourself in difficult times including relevant medication you have.
If we are exploring working outside together, I will also ask about your relationship with nature.
When I work
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Further information
About me
My relationship with the natural world has changed and developed throughout my life. As a child the outdoors was a source of joy and wonder. I loved climbing trees, flying kites, making dens in ferns, swimming in our local river and on holidays in the sea. I loved learning about the natural world from my relatives– being called outside to see a toad spotted in the garden; walking home in the dark with our heads leaning backwards looking at constellations; rock pooling together and investigating the huge variety of aquatic life in such a confined space; watching a spider with a blue egg sac in a pooter.
As an older adolescent I discovered hillwalking, climbing and mountaineering. I loved the way this got me to secluded places with often incredible vantage points to experience views shared by few others. In my 17 years as a teacher I spent time taking students to the Peak District, North Wales, and abroad to walk and climb and explore.
I realised nature was a place for me to reconnect with myself in evenings climbing in the Peak District after a stressful day’s teaching. Now I spend time walking and running in nature as ways to support myself. I feel connected to a part of something far greater than myself and this feels profoundly healing as it shifts my focus to the wider world.
