About me
Hello, and welcome.
Choosing a counsellor is a deeply personal decision. You're not simply looking for someone with qualifications; you're looking for someone you feel safe enough to trust with the parts of yourself that perhaps no one else gets to see.
Humour is a big part of who I am. I believe comedy and tragedy often sit side by side, and while therapy can involve difficult conversations, it can also contain moments of warmth, relief and even laughter. Sometimes laughter is the first glimpse of hope returning.
If you choose to work with me, you can expect to be challenged with kindness, sensitivity and compassion. I won't tell you who you should be. Instead, I'll help you understand who you are, how you came to be that person, and what may be getting in the way of living the life you want.
Years of personal therapy, alongside many years of professional practice, have shaped not only my knowledge but also my emotional intelligence. I understand how vulnerable it can feel to ask for help because I've experienced the value of therapy myself. I see seeking support as an act of courage and self-respect.
My approach is warm, collaborative and free from unnecessary jargon. Therapy isn't something I do to you; it's something we build together. Every person is different, so rather than expecting you to fit a particular therapeutic model, I take time to understand how you think, feel and experience the world. Together we'll create an approach that works for you, whether that's talking therapy alone or incorporating creative therapeutic techniques where appropriate and always with your understanding and consent.
I offer a calm, confidential and accepting space where you can explore whatever is troubling you without fear of judgement. Together we can begin to recognise long-standing patterns, understand where they come from and decide which still serve you and which are ready to change.
Healthy boundaries are often the foundation of emotional wellbeing. Many of us struggle to say no, communicate our needs or recognise when our own boundaries have been crossed. We can work together to strengthen your sense of self, helping you develop healthier relationships with partners, family, friends and colleagues. Learning to communicate clearly and compassionately can transform the way you experience relationships.
Many clients come to me because they feel stuck, overwhelmed or no longer recognise themselves. Workplace stress, career change, anxiety, burnout or major life transitions can slowly disconnect us from who we are. Therapy offers the opportunity to pause, reflect and reconnect with yourself before life reaches breaking point.
I also have extensive experience supporting people who have experienced manipulation, coercive control and gaslighting. These experiences can leave you doubting your own thoughts, memories and judgement. Together we can gently untangle what has happened, helping you regain clarity, rebuild confidence and establish healthier boundaries moving forward.
One way I often describe therapy is this: it's difficult to read a book when it's pressed against your nose. Sometimes all we need is enough distance to finally see the words clearly. Therapy creates that space.
Where appropriate, I also incorporate inner child work. When we lose connection with the younger parts of ourselves, we often lose our spontaneity, confidence, creativity and joy. Reconnecting with those parts can bring a renewed sense of wholeness and authenticity, allowing you to experience deeper relationships with yourself and others.
I can support you with:
Anxiety and stress
Depression
Trauma and PTSD
Childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse
Gaslighting, coercive control and narcissistic relationships
Relationship difficulties
Couples counselling
Addiction
Anger management
Bullying and cyberbullying
Workplace stress and burnout
Career change and life transitions
Parenting challenges and family relationships
Parents of children with complex needs
Children leaving home
Caring responsibilities, including dementia
Fertility, IVF and pregnancy-related issues
Long-term illness, including ME and EDS
Menopause and thyroid-related emotional wellbeing
Weight and body image concerns
Fear of flying and phobias
Smoking cessation
Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
Life and business coaching
Personal development and self-esteem
Clinical supervision for counsellors and helping professionals
Alongside my private practice I have worked as a lecturer, trainer, clinical supervisor, psychological lead and non-executive director. These roles have given me broad experience, but the heart of my work has always remained the same: helping people make sense of themselves and move forward with greater confidence, clarity and compassion.
Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, lost, questioning your relationships, navigating change or simply know that something doesn't feel right, you don't have to work it out alone.
The hardest part is often making that first contact.
If something you've read resonates with you, I'd be delighted to hear from you. I offer a free 15-minute telephone conversation where you can ask questions, tell me a little about what's bringing you to therapy and, most importantly, get a sense of whether I feel like the right counsellor for you.
There is no obligation, just an opportunity to begin.
When you're ready, please get in touch. I'd be honoured to walk alongside you
Anxiety,
Depression
Addictions
Trauma
Phobias
Are an adult survivor of childhood emotional, physical or sexual abuse.
Don't feel right.
Are you not in the position in life you expected to be at this point?
Need some help moving forward?
Struggling to cope at work.
Want to change careers.
To learn that it's ok to say "No"
Anger management.
Been raped or attacked.
Feel you've had a happy childhood but don't know why you aren't moving forward in the direction you expected to be in.
Want to learn to like yourself.
Understand why you keep making the same mistakes and change that behaviour.
Be the parent of a person suffering difficulties in life?
Parent struggling with a child with complex needs or illness.
Children leaving home.
Be a child struggling with a parental relationship.
A carer for someone with dementia.
Considering a donor baby/sperm.
Longing for a child.
Long term illness.
IVF
Anything pregnancy related.
Money & life
CISM. Critical incident stress management
bullying/ cyber bullying
Stress
Fear of flying
ME
EDS
Generalized Fear
Smoking cessation
Menopause
Thyroid issues
Weight issues
Have been or are being gaslighted.
Want a relationship.
Have you got relationship Issues? Unfortunately people don't come with instructions, are you having trouble understanding yourself, your partner or others? Or maybe you are a couple that don't seem to understand each others point of view.
A parent
A counsellor/ psychotherapist looking for therapy.
Feel free to contact me, I will do my best to assist you.
I am at present working in a thriving private practice, which includes
1. Private client sessions in person, on Skype or telephone.
2. Life/ business coaching.
3. Creative Clinical supervisor to several workers/teams/managers and counsellors/psychotherapists.
4. Ex Lecturer at City and Islington college.
5. Trainer in various topics.
6. Ex Non-executive director at MSH, Psychological lead.
Training, qualifications & experience
Level 5 Dip Psychotherapeutic Counsellor.
Adv Dip Integrative Counsellor
EMDR ( Eye Movement, Desensatisation & Reprocessing) ' Adv Part 3'
Qualified Hypnotherapist
EFT ( Emotional Freedom Technique) Adv Practioner
Cascade trained Creative Clinical Supervisor, ABC level 4 Dip in Casework supervision
Person Centred Art Therapy Skills.
Hypno- Life Coaching.
Auricular Acupuncture, NADA Registered.
Adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Motivational Interviewing,
Advan NLP.
Mindfulness/ Meditation
Advanced working with Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, Ketermin, Skunk, Cannibis, Ketamin and new drug trends.
Counsellors secondary stress disorder
NLP: Anger management
Families/ carers and drug use
City & Guilds Nursery Nurse
Conflict resolution
Domestic violence
self harm
Advanced working with street based sex workers
Cert in counselling children & adolescents
Group facilitation
Manage Critical incident trained
PODS
Experience
1) CARIS:
8 years experience working in bereavement with children from age 2 years upwards and with adults. Traumatic bereavement, death by murder and suicide.
2) Friern Barnet School:
Managed the pastoral counselling service.
Faciliated and developed person centred art therapy groups for young people.
3) City Roads Crisis Intervention Centre
Developer and facilitated creative therapy groups.
4) Milton Skills:
Provided counselling within an addiction service.
5) Lifeline:
Managed a substance misuse counselling service for 4 years.
6) Tracy Callaghan Project funded by Hackney council:
Developed, facilitated a counselling service for anyone with an addiction living in the borough. Supporting Lifeline, WDP, Homerton hospital, probation, DAAT service, Hackney Carers for family members, starbright for addicted pregnant mothers.
Supervised team of counsellors, DAAT teams.
Trainer.
7) RAPT:
Clinical supervisor in Wandsworth and Wormwood Scrubs prisons.
8) Lifeline Tower Hamlets:
Clinical supervisor to the counselling team.
9) City and Islington College
Lecturer in counselling courses of all levels and teaching counsellors to be clinical supervisors.
10) Over 20 years I have established a private practice working with clients both on a long and short term basis.
11) Hackney council Steps Restorative supervisor for out reach workers working with the homeless 16 yrs.
12) NHS midwifery team Restorative supervisor both one to one and groups. 5 yrs
13) Via Substance misuse service, Clinical supervisor 6 months in 2024. Job was to sure up team and contain until job was advertised and recruited.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My fees
50 minutes one to one Sessions start at £100.00
50 minute couples therapy £130.00
EMDR per 50 minutes £100.
Supervision: £100.00
When I work
7am-8pm Monday to Thursday
Further information
I ALSO PROVIDE THERAPY ON SKYPE AND TELEPHONE.
