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 I have availability for face to face work on Tuesdays from 5pm. Other times will be possible from mid July onwards, please get in touch for further enquiries.

I offer an attentive and compassionate space for you to explore where you are now, and how you came to that place. This can be a daunting undertaking, as I know from my own experience, but the work is led from where you are when you come, and your awareness and understanding of your own experience. There is no right way, just the way that is right for you. I see my role as counsellor as to listen, to reflect and sometimes to guide or challenge; the work we do is created together, counsellor and client working with each other in the here and now.

In my experience, just to talk, to voice and acknowledge pain and difficulty can go some way toward positive change, and I hope to facilitate this and take it further. This might involve giving voice to parts of the self that are hurt, locked away or self-defeating, and seeing how these parts manifest physically or in day-to-day interactions. To go deeper we might draw on the experimental nature of Gestalt practice, using acting out, drawing, guided visualisation or breath work.

I am open to working with adults of all identities, backgrounds, ages and beliefs. I am aware of the challenges we face in this time, of the anxiety and uncertainty that is ever present, and the very real systemic obstacles there are to the wellbeing of many of us; I welcome exploration of this in the counselling room.

My training is in Gestalt counselling. Put simply, this means working with the client in the here and now based on what the client brings, whether past trauma or current difficulties; memories, thoughts or feelings.

Gestalt is a dialogic approach, meaning that the work takes the relationship between the counsellor and client into account, bringing attention to ways in which it sheds light on the client's self-process.

There is an understanding in Gestalt that the self is not fixed. It is a process, and a process always in relationship with an other, whether that might be a partner, a job, family, a past experience or an aspect of one's personality. The aim of Gestalt is to bring awareness to the parts of this process, and identify ways one might be stuck, or repeat patterns of self-sabotage; through this can come greater self-awareness, self-responsibility and the possibility of change.

I offer a free initial phone call or online meeting, to talk about what brings you to seek counselling and what I can offer you.

If we decide to go further, we can use the first session to further explore your needs and wants and whether they would fit with how I work.