About me
I am a registered integrative therapist working with young people and adults, offering face to face counselling in Widnes and online therapy to clients across the UK and internationally.
Together, we'll explore what matters most to you and take practical steps towards meaningful, lasting change.
After spending over 20 years as a professional footballer, where success often depends on appearing strong, resilient, and unaffected. I understand firsthand what it's like to perform under pressure while feeling unable to show vulnerability. That experience inspired me to pursue a career dedicated to helping people overcome life's challenges, reconnect with themselves, and create lasting, meaningful change.
Reaching out for support can feel daunting. It takes courage to acknowledge that something isn't quite right and to ask for help. My aim is to provide a safe, confidential, and non judgemental space where you feel genuinely heard, accepted, and understood. Rather than telling you what to do, I work alongside you, helping you explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences so you can gain greater clarity, discover your own strengths, and move forward with confidence.
I believe that every person has the capacity for growth and healing when they feel supported by a trusting therapeutic relationship. My approach is compassionate, respectful, and tailored to your individual needs, recognising that no two people or life experiences are the same.
Alongside my work with young people and adults from all walks of life, I have extensive experience supporting professional athletes, business leaders, and individuals working in high pressure environments. I regularly help clients who are experiencing anxiety, stress, low confidence, relationship difficulties, family challenges, life transitions, loss of identity, burnout, and issues around self esteem and performance.
As both a therapist and a parent, I understand the complex demands of balancing work, relationships, family life, and personal wellbeing, so whether you're struggling with overwhelming emotions, feeling stuck, or simply looking to better understand yourself, I offer a collaborative and supportive space where real lasting change can begin.
Whatever has brought you here, you don't have to face it alone. Together, we can help you develop greater resilience, healthier ways of coping, stronger relationships, and a renewed sense of purpose and wellbeing.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’ve supported a diverse range of clients, including high-performing professionals, individuals navigating the pressures of demanding careers and everyday life and professional athletes. My experience includes working with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, low self-esteem, confidence, motivation, and the emotional challenges that can arise when life feels overwhelming. I provide a safe, collaborative space where clients can gain greater self-awareness, develop resilience, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Working with adults
In private practice, I support adults experiencing a wide range of emotional, psychological, and relational difficulties. People seek therapy for many different reasons, including anxiety, stress, low mood, relationship challenges, trauma, feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or struggling to cope with life's demands. I provide a safe, supportive space to explore whatever may be affecting your wellbeing, helping you gain insight, develop resilience, and move towards positive change.
Young people (16-21)
I also work with young people, supporting them through a wide range of emotional and personal challenges. Whether they are struggling with anxiety, confidence, self-esteem, social media pressures, building resilience, or simply finding life difficult to navigate, I provide a safe, supportive space where they can explore their thoughts and feelings, develop coping strategies, and grow in confidence.
Sports background (For parents and athletes)
As a counsellor with lived experience of progressing from a young football player into the professional game I understand the unique pressure that football can place on both children and their families.
Young athletes
Young athletes often face pressure to perform, setbacks through injury, uncertainty around selection, and the emotional impact of academy life. These experiences can affect their confidence, identity, relationships and overall wellbeing.
I provide a safe, supportive space where your child can talk openly about what they are experiencing, develop healthy coping strategies, build emotional resilience, and gain the confidence to navigate both the highs and lows of their football journey. My aim is to help them thrive not only as a player, but as a young person.
Parents
Is your child navigating academy pressures, injury, selection and deselection, release or the transition out of football.
Together we can work to protect your child's confidence, identity and emotional wellbeing, helping them develop resilience both on and off the pitch. By providing a safe, supportive space, we can help your child navigate the moments that often define a young footballer's journey with confidence, perspective, and hope.
Watching your child pursue a football dream is exciting but it can also be emotionally demanding. Academy football brings pressure, uncertainty, injury setbacks, difficult conversations and for some the challenge of being released. As a qualified counsellor with lived experience, I provide parents with the support and guidance they need when their own feelings and emotions around this topic show up.
BSc (Hons) Psychotherapy & Counselling
Level 4 - Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Level 3 - Diploma in Counselling
Level 2 - Certificate in Counselling Skills
MBACP
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
£50.00 - £60.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Trainee counsellors £35
When I work
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Further information
Sessions are available:
-Online
-In person in Widnes
Evening or weekend availabilty on request
