About me
A very warm welcome to you.
I am currently available for face-to-face sessions with individuals and couples.
I am a BACP accredited therapist with 15 years of experience.
My approach is humanistic, relational, embodied, and attachment - and trauma - informed. It is rooted in my integrative training and a wide variety of other therapeutic influences, meditation, mindfulness practice, somatic movement, nature-based practices, IFS, Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting.
I began my couples therapy training with Juliet Grayson in 2019 and have since done further training and CPD in working with couples/transforming relationships with various experienced trainers, including ongoing training with Terry Real (RLT) .
Are you longing to connect more deeply with who you truly are, physically, emotionally, mentally (and if relevant to you, spiritually) and with what you need and want in order to shift towards increased wellbeing?
If you are in crisis, transition or having a challenging time generally; if you are longing to reconnect with your true purpose and your enjoyment of life; if you're experiencing repeating patterns of difficulty in your relationships; if you identify as 'highly sensitive' and struggle to sustain a sense of resilience; if you are neurodivergent; if you're feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, angry or unable to see a way to move forward, my support could help.
It is my experience that when it's the right time to commit to giving ourselves the regular space and attention that therapy can offer, a sense of safety and resource is possible that can lead to profound shifts in our experience of ourselves, our relationships with others and to the wider world.
From 15 year of practice as a therapist and many years of therapeutic work prior to that, I am experienced in working in a creative, individual-focussed way to support you in shedding light on - and ultimately transforming - your relationships to each aspect of yourself, partners, other people in your life and the wider world.
My perspective is informed by a deep understanding of trauma (shock -, developmental - , complex - ) and I have a specialist interest in working with early attachment issues; how they play out in our relationships in later life and also how they can be re-patterned within the therapeutic relationship to enable us to experience greater ease and enjoyment in all of our relationships in the here and now.
As well as offering support with anxiety, depression, low self-worth/confidence, loss of meaning/purpose, perimenopause/menopause/ageing, 'mid-life crisis', parenting, living with neurodivergence, work-stress and relationship difficulties, I have a lot of experience working with people who struggle with disordered eating and difficult relationships with food and their bodies, as well as with clients who suffer in relation to other forms of addiction.
I have been a mindfulness meditation and somatic movement and embodiment practitioner for over 30 years and this informs my client work.
As well as working with clients in indoor settings, I offer therapy in nature and run somatic movement groups in wild settings.
Respect and compassion for you and all you've been through to bring you to this point is core to my work.
You are very welcome to call me to get more of a sense of me and ask any questions you may have.
Couples Therapy
Challenges can of course arise in any relationship, but they can feel especially intense and destabilising with our romantic partner/s where so many layers of complexity meet and can interact in unconscious ways as well as those we're aware of.
Whatever has brought you to the point of choosing to enter into therapy together, I understand that there will likely have already been a complex and winding journey to arriving here.
I recognise also that it may not always feel entirely straightforward to invite an unknown person into the usually more private world of your relationship.
The initial session together allows you to get more of a sense of me and how I work, and me some idea of the issues and shared and personal histories you are coming with. If you both wish to continue after that I usually recommend weekly sessions, at least initially. Once the shifts/changes you are hoping to experience become more established, less frequent sessions may feel appropriate.
I will support you to look more deeply into the dynamics between you, at what you are each wanting, how you communicate with each other, where things may have changed or deteriorated, and how to move towards healthier and more enjoyable and fulfilling ways of relating
I may at times offer specific practices/exercises to support you in what you're wanting to learn, change or cultivate in the relationship.
Some common themes I work with:
Repair after conflict
Healthy boundaries, how to assert them and respect one anothers'.
Staying in connection with self and other in the face of strong difference.
Understanding and working with neurodivergence in relationship and families.
Recognising and taking responsibility for feelings and needs (and how to help each other with this).
Family dynamics/parenting challenges
Intensity vs true intimacy
Adjusting to transition/change - eg the birth of a child, children leaving home, job-loss/change, perimenopause/menopause, ill-health, bereavement.
Whether you feel you are facing the possible ending of your relationship and are wanting to separate in as healthy a way as possible or are longing for change and greater satisfaction and shared enjoyment within it, I offer you my support.
My couples work is grounded in 15 years of practice as a somatic psychotherapist and is strongly informed by neuroscience, systemic models of therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE) as well as specialist couples training since 2019 (Juliet Grayson, David Slattery and Terry Real (Relational Life Therapy).
I welcome you however you identify; whatever your lifestyle, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, cultural or social background.
I am in ongoing supervision and undertake continuing professional development.
COST
Initial Session - 1 hour - £90
Subsequent sessions - 1 hour - £90
1 1/4 hours - £110
My Background
I was originally a community midwife and have experience of working in the charity sector supporting people with life-threatening / terminal illness. I also spent several years working with refugees and asylum seekers.
I work with clients suffering the effects of early attachment disorder, trauma, isolation, loneliness, addiction (I've worked as a counsellor in two drug and alcohol rehabs) fear, depression, anxiety and other mental health diagnoses, eating disorders, physical health problems and those who have spent much of their lives feeling generally overwhelmed, frightened or unsafe without ever really understanding why.
I have also worked as a bodywork therapist, and as a specialist mentor/coach for university students with a wide variety of needs and challenges.
How I Work
My way of working is tailored very specifically to each client's individual needs and is underpinned and inspired by:
- traditional person-centred and existential applied theory
- in-depth knowledge of attachment theory
- mindfulness
- Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- Brainspotting
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Family Constellations
- neurobiology
- Polyvagal Theory
- Brainspotting
- somatic awareness and movement (indoors and on the land)
- other forms of creative self-expression
- ritual-making
- nature-based exploration
Training, qualifications & experience
- Working With Couples Training with David Slattery 2025-2026
- Relational Life Therapy for Couples - Level 1 - Terry Real - 2025
- Brainspotting training with David Grand - 2025
- Working with Anger - Jill Gabriel - Oct. 2022
- 'Privilege and Otherness: Developing a Language for Practitioners with Prof. Dwight Turner - GCS - June 2022
- 'The Integrated Trauma Therapist' - incorporating Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR and other trauma-focussed modalities - April 2021
- Dreamwork & Belonging - Toko-pa Turner - November 2020
- Masterclass with Peter Levine - Somatic Experiencing: Mastering the body-oriented approach to stress and trauma - October 2020
- Masterclass with Esther Perel - Couples Therapy in Action - July 2020
- Dealing with Affairs - June 2020 - with Nicola Jones
- Fundamentals of Working with Couples - November 2019 - with Juliet Grayson
- SATe/DARe (Somatic Attachment Training / Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience) Cologne, 2016 (ongoing training)
- Post-Graduate Diploma Integrative Counselling - Masters Level (L7) (Distinction) (BACP Accredited Course) (UWL) 2010
- Certificate (Masters Level) in Somatic Dance/Movement Education (Distinction) (UCLAN) 2009
- Kahuna Bodywork Diploma - Hawaii 1996
- Mindfulness Training - Ongoing training since 2000 - MBSR, Plum Village
As an accredited member of the BACP, I work in accordance with the ethical framework of the BACP and am committed to ongoing personal and professional development and attending regular supervision.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- insecure attachment
- childhood abuse
- addiction/substance misuse
- eating disorders and body-image
- relationship issues
- change and transition
- depression and/or anxiety
- birth-related trauma (relating to pre- peri- or post-natal period)
- parenting issues including the challenges of parenting neurodiverse children
- crisis of all kinds
- low self-worth
- health concerns
- suicidal feelings
- spiritual matters
- bereavement
- work- or study-stress
- loss of meaning
- trauma and many others.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Additional information
Couples Therapy Fees
Initial session - 1 hour - £85
Subsequent sessions - 60 minutes - £85
75 minutes - £105
