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I have availability for new clients and work weekdays and evenings Monday to Friday.

I am a qualified integrative counsellor and psychotherapist working with adult individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives and trainee therapists. I have a legal background and over 20 years experience working in the social enterprise space and over 10 years as a non-executive director for a financial services institution.

I offer a warm, caring and confidential space for meaningful change. My practice is integrative  which requires using a range of proven therapy techniques to address your unique needs and circumstances allowing you to feel seen, heard, understood and accepted. 

My practice also provides an inclusive and culturally competent approach to clients from different backgrounds, which includes considering the psychological impact of race and culture in their lived experiences.

Sometimes, we get caught up in our daily lives, relying on auto-pilot, pushing aside our worries and concerns and not allowing space to process our emotions.

Personal beliefs guiding my work include the understanding that the desire of most human beings is for relational connection and when this is missing, emotional and psychological disturbances may occur. This tends to relate to attachment issues impacting on our sense of self and relationship with others.

I provide counselling to address short-term work which tends to be solution focused around current issues to develop coping strategies. I also offer psychotherapy which usually involves longer term work, exploring deeper, long emotional difficulties and behaviour patterns which often work with our unconscious processes.

Other client presentations I work with have included high levels of anxiety, depressive episodes, low mood, burnout, relationship and identity issues, imposter syndrome,  trauma, life changing events, grief and loss. 

I also give space to clients wishing to reflect on their faith and spirituality.

You may be facing difficulties in life that are just too big to manage on your own or you may be feeling stuck, anxious or disconnected on the inside.

My approach is not about quick fixes, it's about understanding root causes shaping your emotions and relationships. I believe we are the sum of all that we have experienced in life and sometimes events in our past leave their emotional imprint on our present circumstances, affecting our relationship with self and others.

Through a safe reflective space, we will spend time exploring your thoughts, feelings and behaviour patterns, helping you develop a stronger sense of self, healthier relationships and emotional resilience. I strongly believe that the client-therapist relationship plays an integral part in the therapeutic process allowing you to feel seen, heard and understood. 

I provide an inclusive and culturally competent approach  to clients from different backgrounds, which may include considering the psychological impact of race and culture in their lived experiences.

My counselling service is integrative drawing from modalities that include person centred, gestalt, existential and solution focused therapy with a primary focus in working from a psychodynamic perspective and attachment theory.

I have extensive experience working remotely with NHS talk therapy and hold a Íø±¬ÃÅ certificate in online and telephone counselling.

During our initial sessions, we will delve deeply into the issues at hand and collaborate to create a plan for addressing them in a way that helps you get your life back. Most of my clients see a gradual lifting of symptoms within the first month and sustained improvement thereafter which often include new ways of thinking, self-compassion, authenticity and emotional resilience. 

I offer a free 15 minute initial telephone session. During this call, we talk about what brings you to therapy, how therapy can help and questions you may have. I will also share my way of working as I believe it's important for clients to choose a therapist they feel comfortable with. 

If we both feel we make a good fit, I will email you a counselling contract. This contract expresses the responsibilities of the counsellor towards the client and the client’s responsibility in the counselling relationship. I will also answer any queries you may have prior to our first therapy session to confirm you understand its contents before signing.

During our first session, you may not have the words to express how you feel, you just know you're not thriving and there might be a nagging voice asking "what's wrong with me?''

I aim to help you deepen your self-awareness through reflection, using the therapy space in exploring your inner world without fear of judgement and creating a safe space for healing, self-discovery and change.