About me
Sometimes Life Asks More Than We Feel We Can Give
You may be living with anxiety, depression, or grief, or with a quieter sense that something has shifted and you are no longer quite sure how to find your way back to yourself.
Perhaps you carry the particular exhaustion of moving through a world built for a different kind of nervous system. It may be that you are holding others steady while your own needs wait quietly at the back of the queue. Or illness, treatment, or a diagnosis has rearranged your life, and you are standing in a transition that has left the ground unsteady beneath you.
I am a Person-Centred Counsellor and certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher with an MSc in Psychology and eighteen years in cancer care before I came to this work. My deepest experience lies with neurodiverse adults, with people living with cancer or long-term illness, and with those carrying the weight of caring for someone else.
Whatever brings you here, you are welcome exactly as you are. This is a space where you can arrive without rehearsal.
Training, qualifications & experience
Training and Experience
I came to counselling after eighteen years in healthcare, first as a therapy radiographer in the NHS and later supporting people living with cancer at Maggie's Centres. Those years taught me how to sit steadily with someone in the hardest hours of their life, and that experience underpins everything I offer now.
Clients often tell me it is the combination they value most: psychological training alongside a practical, unflinching familiarity with illness, treatment, and the long road afterwards.
My practice is rooted in person-centred counselling, held within a wider understanding of psychology, mindfulness, and the nervous system, and shaped by respect for each person's individual path.
Qualifications
MSc Psychology (Merit), University of Stirling, 2025
COSCA Accredited Professional Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling, Therapy Train Stirling
COSCA Accredited Certificate in Counselling Skills, Falkirk and District Association for Mental Health (FDAMH)
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, UK College of Mindfulness Meditation, 2020
Associate of Arts and Sciences in Radiation Therapy Technology, Bellevue College, USA
Professional Membership
Registered Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Member, British Psychological Society (BPS)
Member, COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland)
I work within the BACP Ethical Framework and receive regular clinical supervision.
Continuing Professional Development
Working with Bereavement and Complex Grief, BACP
Taking Your Therapy Practice Outside, Walk and Talk Outdoor Therapy
Online Counselling, The Open University, 2024
Special Interests
Grief and bereavement sit at the heart of my work, particularly loss that follows illness, caregiving, or a long period of anticipation.
Alongside this I have a strong interest in neurodiversity, and many of the adults I see live with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or dyspraxia. I also work closely with carers, and with people whose sense of identity has shifted through diagnosis, treatment, or change.
My approach is inclusive, trauma-aware, and shaped around each person's particular strengths.
Research and Group Work
My postgraduate research examined how mindfulness-based therapy affects wellbeing, stress, and sleep quality in long-term carers. Carers are among the most quietly depleted people I meet, and studying them closely deepened my commitment to bringing evidence-based mindfulness and compassion-focused approaches into the counselling room.
From that research I developed the Stillness Series, a four-session mindfulness programme, and I have also delivered group work on relationships and communication for Breast Cancer Now.
Member organisations
COSCA is the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland, and seeks to advance all forms of counselling and psychotherapy and the use of counselling skills by promoting best practice and through the delivery of a range of sustainable services. COSCA Counsellor Accreditation is a pathway to entry onto the UKRC. It is a requirement of all individual and organisational members of COSCA to abide by its Statement of Ethics and Code of Practice and be accountable to the Complaints Procedure. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Counselling sessions are £60 per 50 minutes.
I offer both in-person sessions at Callendar House in Falkirk and online sessions across the UK. You’re welcome to get in touch with any questions or to arrange a brief introductory call, free of charge, to see if we might be a good fit to work together.
When I work
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I offer both in-person and online sessions Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, with Saturday mornings also available.
On Tuesdays, I am available online only.
Further information
Further Information
Finding the right counsellor matters enormously. The relationship between client and counsellor is one of the strongest predictors of whether therapy helps, stronger than the particular model used. So take your time over this, and speak to more than one person if that is what it takes to find someone who feels like a fit. That is a sign of good instincts rather than indecision.
If you would like to explore whether we might work well together, I offer a free fifteen minute introductory call. I will phone you at a time you choose, and we can talk through what has brought you here and how I work. You are welcome to ask anything, including the practical questions people sometimes hesitate over. There is no obligation on either side.
A first session moves at whatever pace suits you. Some people arrive knowing exactly what they want to say. Others come with a feeling they have not yet found words for, and we begin there instead. Both are entirely workable starting points.
Sessions are available in person at Callendar House in Falkirk, outdoors as Walk and Talk therapy, and online across the UK and internationally. Sessions last fifty minutes and cost £60. I usually suggest meeting weekly to begin with, though we can shape this around your circumstances.
Do get in touch when you feel ready. I will reply personally.
