About me
THE JOURNEY ROOM
I am a BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with over 18 years' experience working with young people and adults. My work began in the NHS and has evolved to include both state and private secondary schools, private practice and work in Psychedelic Research Clinical trials. My practice is grounded in a simple belief: distress is rarely a malfunction. It is an intelligible, adaptive response to what has happened to us — the power that was or was not available to us, and the meaning we made of it in order to survive.
This understanding draws on the Power Threat Meaning Framework, developed by the British Psychological Society, which reframes emotional distress and troubled behaviour as responses to adversity, trauma, and systemic inequality, rather than symptoms of illness. Instead of asking what is wrong with you, I ask what happened, what it meant, and what you had to become to get through it. This provides us with the map out of it.
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My Approach
My work sits at the meeting point of attachment and relational theory, Jungian depth psychology, somatic and trauma-informed practice, and family constellations. Much of what shapes us is inherited from the systems we grow up in — families, institutions, culture — which often produce the very distress they later label as pathology. I am particularly attentive to this with women and others in marginalised positions, where these dynamics can be woven so deeply into ordinary life that they are hard to name, let alone resist.
Healing is not only about regulating the nervous system, though that matters. It is about recognising where you were disempowered, where your truth was overwritten, and finding your way back to yourself.
Areas of Specialism
Alongside more common presentations of distress, and offering support around significant life events and transitions, I have a number of specialist interests detailed below.
— Adolescents and young people, aged 13–21— I have over 15 years' experience supporting young people and their families through the emotional and social demands of adolescence
— Coercive control — in intimate relationships, families, religious or institutional settings, and workplaces, including the inter-generational patterns that affect children and young people.
— Boarding school — where early separation and institutional life shape compliance, hypervigilance, and disconnection from one's own truth in ways that echo coercive dynamics later in life.
— Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy — I offer integration therapy supporting those who have been a part of clinical trials, or experienced expanded states in other domains and wish to find a space to make sense of them. I do not work with plant medicine itself.
What to Expect
We begin with an initial phone consultation, where you can ask questions and share what has brought you to therapy — for yourself or someone you care about. From there, we schedule a first session. Sessions run 50 minutes, typically weekly, face-to-face or online. I work with adolescents and adults, individually and in groups.
In Short
Whether you are in crisis, in transition, or at a time when the story you have been told about yourself no longer fits, my role is to walk alongside you and assist you in finding your way back home.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc in Psychology of Coercive Control (present)
- Second Sight - Three year Shamanic Training (year 1)
- Foundation in Systemic Family Constellations - Centre of Systemic Family Constellations
- Diploma in Psychotherapy in Community - The Philadelphia Association
- Depth Relational Process - Institute of Psychedelic Therapy. (two years)
- Trauma Pathway - Betsy De Thierry
- Understanding Female Neuroscience, Neuroscience Academy
- Attachment Narrative Therapy - Bowlby Centre, Working with Imagery and CBT, OCTC
- Working with Young People and Their Families using CBT, OCTC
- Advanced Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CPCAB
- Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling CPCAB
- Certificate in Counselling Studies CPCAB
- Certificate in Counselling Skills CPCAB
- PG Certificate in Psychology
- Aspects of Bereavement Course
- Creative Ways to Help Young People and their Families
I have worked for over 15 years as a school counsellor supporting young people and staff and have worked in mental health for over 15 years.
I am registered with Bupa, AXA and other major healthcare providers.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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.
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Fees
£85.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fee is £95 for a 50 minute session.
At least 48 hours cancellation notice is required, if less, the full fee will be payable.
I offer an initial 15 mins telephone consultation for you to ask me any questions, and get an idea of if you think we could work together.
It's best when sessions are weekly at a pre-arranged time. Options to pay upfront for a block per month.
When I work
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