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I am available for sessions on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, including evenings.

A warm welcome...

Feeling seen, heard and understood is essential for our health and I provide a safe place for this. 

I work with people who've experienced childhood trauma, abuse and neglect, helping them reconnect with their sense of safety, worth and agency. Sometimes simply the absence of empathy and understanding in our early years can be sufficient to cause deep wounds. Through Somatic and Attachment-based approaches, we gently explore how early experiences may still be living in your body today, shaping how you connect with yourself, others and the world around you. From this place of understanding we can start reclaiming what has been lost/taken/denied.

Trauma can leave a lasting imprint on the brain, body and sense of self. Common long-term effects include: Chronic anxiety and depression, difficulty trusting and connecting with others, low self-worth or shame, dissociation or numbing, fear of abandonment or rejection, people pleasing or extreme independence. Also body based symptoms such as fatigue, chronic pain and gastrointestinal issues.

Healing from early trauma is absolutely possible.

Starting therapy allows us the time to listen and notice, to make sense of, to process. To rebuild boundaries, a sense of self and safety. It validates and empowers. Attending your first session can be the start of real and lasting change.

I know how important it is to find the right therapist, one with whom you feel fully accepted and safe to explore painful and personal experiences. For this reason I offer a free initial meeting to help you decide if I am the right therapist for you.

Client written testimonials:

- "These sessions have been a blessing that I will cherish forever."  A

- "Thank you for your understanding, kindness and caring."  J

My theoretical perspective is Humanistic, believing that with the right support we have the ability to fulfil our potential: to be open, present, trusting, creative and fulfilled. Being Integrative enables me to draw from a range of approaches to suit your unique needs and preferences. These approaches include Person Centred: to help you reconnect with your inner values and sense of self worth. Gestalt: to increase understanding of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Transactional Analysis: to help promote personal growth and change through the way you relate and communicate with others.

I use Somatic approaches which are based on the understanding that trauma is not just something that happened in the past — it is something that gets stuck in the body and nervous system when a person’s natural survival responses (fight, flight, freeze) don’t get to fully resolve.

In our sessions, we don’t have to re-live or re-tell the whole story of what happened. Instead, we work with what is present now — subtle body sensations, emotions, and images — to help your body complete those interrupted survival responses and restore a sense of safety. Insights from Attachment Theory can help us understand how early relationship patterns may be impacting current relationships, self-worth or ability to feel safe.

When words are hard to find creative approaches can be helpful, such as sand tray and drawing. When I think an additional approach might be helpful it will be offered as an invitation, keeping your preferences very much in mind throughout.

I am an experienced therapist that strives to keep fees and therapy accessible to a wide range of clients. I appreciate the benefit of early intervention so alongside my private practice I am a Designated Safeguarding Officer for a local charity. I assist in training and supervising their practitioners in providing 1:1 emotional listening support in schools. 

"We are made through relationship, wounded through relationship...it makes sense therefore that we are healed through relationship"  - John Welwood

Extensive research has shown that, regardless of approach, it is human connection and acceptance that make therapy productive, so our relationship will be key to you feeling safe and supported. It is for this reason that I recommend an initial 20 minute meeting, free of charge. This time together will help you decide if I am the right therapist for you, whilst I ensure that I have appropriate training and competence to support you. 

I offer long, open ended and short-term counselling. Sessions are weekly and can be in person, online (via Zoom or Google Meet) or telephone. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or to arrange an initial meeting via one of these methods.

I am available for sessions on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, including evenings.

A warm welcome...

Feeling seen, heard and understood is essential for our health and I provide a safe place for this. 

I work with people who've experienced childhood trauma, abuse and neglect, helping them reconnect with their sense of safety, worth and agency. Sometimes simply the absence of empathy and understanding in our early years are sufficient to cause deep wounds. Through Somatic and Attachment-based approaches, we gently explore how early experiences may still be living in your body today, shaping how you connect with yourself, others and the world around you. From this place of understanding we can start reclaiming what has been lost/taken/denied.

Trauma can leave a lasting imprint on the brain, body and sense of self. Common long-term effects include: Chronic anxiety and depression, difficulty trusting and connecting with others, low self-worth or shame, dissociation or numbing, fear of abandonment or rejection, people pleasing or extreme independence. Also body based symptoms such as fatigue, chronic pain and gastrointestinal issues.

Healing from early trauma is absolutely possible.

Starting therapy allows us the time to listen and notice, to make sense of, to process. To rebuild boundaries, a sense of self and safety. It validates and empowers. Attending your first session can be the start of real and lasting change.

I know how important it is to find the right therapist, one with whom you feel fully accepted and safe to explore painful and personal experiences. For this reason I offer a free initial meeting to help you decide if I am the right therapist for you.

Client written testimonials:

- "These sessions have been a blessing that I will cherish forever."  A

- "Thank you for your understanding, kindness and caring."  J

My theoretical perspective is Humanistic, believing that with the right support we have the ability to fulfil our potential: to be open, present, trusting, creative and fulfilled. Being Integrative enables me to draw from a range of approaches to suit your unique needs and preferences. These approaches include Person Centred: to help you reconnect with your inner values and sense of self worth. Gestalt: to increase understanding of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Transactional Analysis: to help promote personal growth and change through the way you relate and communicate with others.

I use Somatic approaches which are based on the understanding that trauma is not just something that happened in the past — it is something that gets stuck in the body and nervous system when a person’s natural survival responses (fight, flight, freeze) don’t get to fully resolve.

In our sessions, we don’t have to re-live or re-tell the whole story of what happened. Instead, we work with what is present now — subtle body sensations, emotions, and images — to help your body complete those interrupted survival responses and restore a sense of safety. Insights from Attachment Theory can help us understand how early relationship patterns may be impacting current relationships, self-worth or ability to feel safe.

When words are hard to find creative approaches can be helpful, such as sand tray and drawing. When I think an additional approach might be helpful it will be offered as an invitation, keeping your preferences very much in mind throughout.

I am an experienced therapist that strives to keep fees and therapy accessible to a wide range of clients. I appreciate the benefit of early intervention so alongside my private practice I am a Designated Safeguarding Officer for a local charity. I assist in training and supervising their practitioners in providing 1:1 emotional listening support in schools. 

"We are made through relationship, wounded through relationship...it makes sense therefore that we are healed through relationship"  - John Welwood

Extensive research has shown that, regardless of approach, it is human connection and acceptance that make therapy productive, so our relationship will be key to you feeling safe and supported. It is for this reason that I recommend an initial 20 minute meeting, free of charge. This time together will help you decide if I am the right therapist for you, whilst I ensure that I have appropriate training and competence to support you. 

I offer long, open ended and short-term counselling. Sessions are weekly and can be in person, online (via Zoom or Google Meet) or telephone. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or to arrange an initial meeting via one of these methods.