About me
You may be experiencing anxiety, low mood, persistent overthinking, emotional overwhelm or difficulties in your relationships. Perhaps you understand your reactions logically but still feel stuck in familiar patterns.
I offer warm, compassionate relational and integrative psychotherapy. Together, we can explore both what you are experiencing now and the beliefs, relationships and protective patterns that may lie beneath it.
I offer online therapy, providing a confidential and accessible way to work together from the privacy of your own space. Online sessions follow the same relational, collaborative and individualised approach as my in-person work.
My work combines deeper relational exploration with practical CBT and ACT-informed tools where helpful. This means therapy can provide space to understand yourself more fully while also developing skills for managing difficult thoughts, emotions and everyday situations.
You are not broken. Many of the patterns causing distress today may once have helped you cope or protect yourself. Therapy can help you understand these patterns with compassion and begin discovering new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Training, qualifications & experience
I hold a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychodynamic Therapy and am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). Regular continuing professional development helps me keep my practice informed by current research, ethical guidance and best practice.
I bring more than 23 years of experience working across mental health and social care settings in the UK and South Africa. My background includes supporting people affected by domestic abuse, young people leaving care or facing homelessness, individuals in addiction recovery, and people from ethnic minority communities. I have also managed a peer-led mental health project in partnership with the NHS and third-sector organisations.
My particular interests include childhood trauma, attachment wounds, shame and the emotional and relationship patterns that can continue into adulthood. I help clients understand how early experiences may have shaped their sense of self, their relationships and the protective ways they learned to cope.
My work is relational, trauma-aware and integrative. Alongside deeper psychodynamic and attachment-informed exploration, I can draw on practical CBT-informed and ACT-informed tools. This allows therapy to include both meaningful understanding and useful skills for managing anxiety, overthinking, difficult emotions and everyday situations.
Together, we can approach your experiences with curiosity rather than judgement, develop greater self-compassion and explore safer, more flexible ways of relating to yourself an
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
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Fees
£55.00 - £65.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer concession prices for over 65's, students, NHS workers and those on Universal Credit.
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Further information
I work with over 18, and offer an easy and convenient on-line and telephone service. I also provide flexible time slots during and after working hours and over weekends.
