About me
In my work as a Psychotherapist, I have come to learn that meaningful change happens in relationship. Over the past 17 years, I have worked with individuals and couples facing a wide range of personal, emotional, and relationship difficulties. Therapy offers an opportunity to better understand yourself, your relationships, and the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, whilst creating space for something different to emerge.
Feeling Stuck...
Most people who contact me already know that something is not working.
You may find yourself repeating the same patterns in relationships, struggling to express what you really think or feel, adapting around other people to keep the peace, or wondering why life continues to unfold in ways that leave you dissatisfied. You may know something needs to change, yet still find yourself returning to familiar ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Many people find themselves adapting to the people around them whilst gradually losing sight of what they think, feel, and want. They may avoid conflict, struggle to set boundaries, or feel responsible for keeping others happy. Over time, this can leave them feeling frustrated, disconnected from themselves, and unsure how to create something different.
Working Things Through Together...
Many of us spend years trying to work things out alone, thinking things through repeatedly in our own minds. Therapy offers the opportunity to bring those experiences into relationship with another person, where they can be explored, understood, challenged, and responded to.
If two people keep showing up honestly and continue exploring together, something useful eventually emerges.
Through that process, understanding often grows surprisingly quickly. Yet knowledge on its own is rarely enough. The challenge is often not a lack of insight, but feeling unable to act on what we already know. Fear, self-doubt, old patterns, or uncertainty about what comes next can keep us stuck long after we have recognised the problem. Therapy can help create the awareness, confidence, and support needed to begin moving in a different direction.
How I Work...
My approach is warm, relational, and active. I am not a therapist who simply sits quietly and nods. I will share observations, offer perspectives, and help you make sense of what may be happening beneath the surface. Together we can begin to understand patterns that may previously have felt confusing, overwhelming, or difficult to change.
At times I may challenge you, not to tell you what to do, but to help us explore what may be standing between you and the life you want to create.
Therapy is not about becoming a different person. It is about arriving more fully into yourself. Developing a better relationship with who you are, understanding the patterns that shape your life, and moving towards a more satisfying way of being.
My work is primarily informed by Transactional Analysis and delivered through an integrative approach, drawing upon a range of theoretical, relational, and creative methods, including parts work, art-based exploration, clay work, and sandtray where these may be helpful to the therapeutic process.
Taking the Next Step...
Finding the right therapist is important, and the relationship between therapist and client matters. If you are considering therapy and would like to explore whether we might be a good fit to work together, you are very welcome to get in touch,
If you would like to learn more about my approach, the ways I work, and the services I offer, you are welcome to explore my website.
Training, qualifications & experience
Dip. Psychotherapeutic Counselling
PGDip. Psychotherapy
Certificate in Couples Counselling
Certificate in IFS & Parts Work Therapy
17 years working as Psychotherapist & Counsellor in private practice
Memberships:
BACP Registered Member (MBACP): Reg No: 144427
Other academic qualifications:
PhD in Biomedical Sciences
MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences
BSc (Hons) in Medical Microbiology and Immunology
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
£75.00 - £90.00
Additional information
The fee for individual therapy is £75 per session.
The fee for couples therapy is £90 per session.
Sessions are for 50 minutes and may be conducted face-to-face or remotely (video-call).
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