About me
ATTACHMENT SPECIALIST: Getting to the Root of Your Relationship Patterns
Transforming how you connect—both internally with yourself and externally with others
About Me
As an attachment-focused relational therapist, I provide specialised online therapy for individuals and couples across the UK and internationally (excluding the USA and Canada). My practice offers dedicated psychological care for those navigating relationship issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, panic attacks, and family concerns. While these represent frequent focal points in my work, they are by no means an exhaustive list. An attachment framework is versatile and deeply accommodating, allowing us to safely address whatever unique personal or emotional challenges you may be facing.
I offer a collaborative approach, so our sessions are tailored entirely to your unique goals. We can either explore how early experiences shape your current attachment styles or focus firmly on the present to tackle immediate challenges—often combining both approaches to suit what you need. By establishing a warm, conversational online space, we will unpack your patterns, build meaningful self-awareness, and focus on practical tools to help you process overwhelming emotions and build more fulfilling connections.
My background as both a therapist and a trained mediator enables me to offer distinct, one-off solution-focused sessions designed entirely to address and untangle a specific, immediate issue.
When something in your life needs to change
There are many reasons you might be considering therapy. Anxiety and depression may have begun taking up too much space, perhaps through panic attacks, health anxiety, overthinking, or a constant sense of being on alert. Or you may find it hard to express what you’re feeling; life can seem manageable from the outside while feeling very different internally.
You might be someone who is used to supporting everyone else, managing chronic stress, or quietly struggling with loneliness and low self-esteem without a space that is entirely your own. Knowing something needs to change isn't always the same as knowing how to change it.
Understanding your story
You don't need to know why you feel or respond as you do before coming to therapy; we can become curious about that together. My work draws on attachment-based psychotherapy, incorporating integrative, psychodynamic, and relational approaches to explore your unique relational patterns. We will consider how early experiences and past relationships shape the way you experience yourself and others today. Sometimes, the focus of our sessions shifts from 'Why am I like this? ' to 'What is happening inside me right now?'
Anxiety involves much more than thoughts. For many, it lives physically through a racing heart, tight chest, disturbed sleep, or an inability to switch off. These somatic sensations can sometimes become frightening in themselves, accompanied by checking, reassurance-seeking, or hypervigilance. Where relevant, we will pay attention to exactly what is happening in the body alongside your thoughts and emotions.
What would it be like to work with me?
I see therapy as something co-created between us. My way of working is warm, conversational, and active. I won't just sit in silence while you try to work everything out alone. I may ask questions, share observations, help you make connections, or gently challenge something when it serves your growth. There is room here for reflection, words and silence, seriousness, and sometimes humour.
Our sessions can be both exploratory and deeply practical. Depending on your needs, our work might involve:
Understanding emotional responses and triggers.
Exploring patterns in behaviour and ways of relating.
Developing coping strategies for managing intense emotions.
Communicating needs and establishing clear boundaries.
Finding alternative responses when impulsive behaviours or familiar, reactive patterns take over.
Beyond everyday stressors, I guide clients through deep relational challenges like broken trust, protective habits, or communication difficulties. This includes working with the complexities of OCD, intrusive thoughts, dissociation, masking, body image, body dysmorphia, and difficulties around food. Additionally, I support individuals exploring the personal and relational impact of ADHD, autism, and other forms of neurodivergence. Because these struggles so often intertwine with how we protect ourselves, an attachment lens offers a safe, grounding framework for our work.
Therapy has to make sense in your world.
I don't separate your psychological experience from the actual world you live in. Culture, faith, migration, gender, identity, belonging, and family expectations all deeply matter. Historical and intergenerational trauma may also form part of your wider context, and I do not assume there is one "correct" psychological way to live.
If faith or spirituality is important to you, it has a place in our work—whether it is experienced as a source of comfort, meaning, questioning, or conflict.
We don't only grieve people.
Grief takes many forms. It can follow a bereavement, but profound loss also involves relationships, childhood experiences, changes in health, estrangement, or leaving a country or community. There can also be deep grief for what you never had or distress when navigating major life transitions where life unfolded differently from the one you imagined. Grief does not follow a neat timetable, and therapy with me is never about a rushed pressure to 'move on'. There can also be grief for something we never had. Grief doesn't have to follow a timetable, and therapy doesn't have to be about 'moving on'.
When the relationship becomes the battleground
Couples come to therapy for many different reasons, including repeated arguments, painful silences, chronic disconnection, or a loss of physical and emotional closeness. My advanced attachment-focused couples training and marriage/relationship, counselling approach draws on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), PACT, Imago, and Gottman-informed methods. Rather than deciding in advance what is happening between two people, I want to understand the unique relationship in front of me.
Where a pursue-withdraw dynamic is present, for example, one partner may reach harder for connection while the other becomes overwhelmed and pulls away. My role isn't to take sides but to understand both of you and the loop you get caught in. Often, both partners are fighting for the relationship in completely different ways—and what one intends as a desperate reach for connection is not experienced that way by the other.
Clinical supervision
I provide comprehensive online clinical supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, alongside specialised supervision of supervision. Grounded in my advanced Level 7 postgraduate training, my supervisory practice supports therapists working across psychodynamic, person-centred, and attachment-based frameworks.
In this collaborative and reflective space, I pay close attention to complex unconscious dynamics—including projective identification, relational loops, and parallel processes—as they manifest within the therapeutic relationship. Whether you are navigating intense client presentations, managing ethical dilemmas, or refining your own supervisory lens, I provide a safe, supportive environment to slow things down, deepen your clinical insight, and foster sustainable professional growth.
If we work together
I want to understand your world from the inside—what life feels like for you, not simply how it looks from the outside.
Training, qualifications & experience
My professional training includes a Diploma in Integrative Counselling (covering psychodynamic and humanistic approaches), specialist Level 5 training in Attachment-Based Psychotherapy, and advanced Level 7 postgraduate training in attachment-focused psychotherapeutic practice. This advanced study encompasses trauma work, couples therapy, clinical supervision, and research. I am also a fully trained mediator.
I am registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Attachment difficulties and attachment styles, including how they may shape repeating patterns in behaviour, relationships and the way you experience yourself and others.
- Emotional regulation and emotional overwhelm.
- Self-confidence, self-worth and self-esteem.
- Shame and feelings of not being good enough.
- Rejection and fear of it.
- Fears around closeness, abandonment, judgement and loss.
- Emotional awareness, emotional communication and expressing needs.
- Historical and intergenerational trauma.
- Hypervigilance, dissociation and masking.
- Identity and belonging.
- Body image and difficulties around food and eating.
- Health anxiety, intrusive thoughts and reassurance-seeking.
- Grief and loss, including losses beyond bereavement.
- Cultural identity, migration, faith and spirituality.
- Communication, boundaries and conflict within relationships.
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fees
Initial Assessment: £50 per 30 minutes
Individual Session: £80 per 50 minutes
Couples Counselling: £120 per 60 minutes
Clinical Supervision: Please enquire for current rates.
Single Breakthrough Session (Solution-Focused): £100 per 60 minutes. (Focused, one-time support to untangle a specific challenge and build an immediate action plan.)
Concessions: I offer a limited number of concessionary rates for all services; please enquire about current availability.
When I work
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Further information
I currently offer online, video-based therapy only, working with individuals and couples, as well as providing online clinical supervision for counsellors and psychotherapists.
I offer weekly and fortnightly sessions, as well as ad hoc appointments where appropriate. I aim to be flexible around individual circumstances and what works best for you.
I have experience working with clients from around the world and welcome enquiries from people living in other countries.
