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I’m a Íø±¬ÃÅ-registered humanistic counsellor with lived experience of adoption and a deep understanding of addiction, recovery, and the lifelong impact of attachment trauma. I offer a safe, non-judgemental space for adults navigating complex emotional histories – especially around identity, shame, grief, and feeling disconnected from self or others. My integrative approach draws on Person-Centred Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Gestalt, and is rooted in the belief that healing happens through real, honest relationship. I also bring lived insight into the 12-step philosophy and work in frontline addiction and mental health services, alongside facilitating a therapeutic group for adult adoptees. Whether you feel stuck, angry, numb, or simply exhausted from surviving alone, you are welcome here just as you are. You don’t need to have the right words – just a willingness to begin. I’ll meet you there.

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How I practice

My practice is integrative and relational, which means I draw from a range of humanistic approaches to meet you as a whole person – not a set of symptoms or a story to be fixed. I’m grounded in Person-Centred Therapy, where empathy, acceptance, and authenticity guide our work; Transactional Analysis, which helps explore relational patterns and inner dialogue; and Gestalt Therapy, which supports present-moment awareness and emotional contact. These are the frameworks that inform me – but it’s the real, human relationship between us that makes therapy work.

I hold space with curiosity, compassion, and gentle challenge – offering you the chance to slow down, hear yourself more clearly, and explore what might be blocking growth or connection. I welcome all parts of you into the room – the angry, uncertain, grieving, or guarded ones – and we make space for them to be understood, not judged.

I also bring knowledge of the 12-step recovery model, and experience working in addiction and mental health services, which allows me to hold recovery journeys and relapse processes with care and insight. My lived experience of adoption and identity questioning informs my practice deeply – I understand what it’s like to grow up not knowing where you belong, and how that can echo into adulthood. Therapy with me isn’t about fixing you – it’s about reconnecting with your truth, your choices, and your capacity to heal.

I’m a Íø±¬ÃÅ-registered humanistic counsellor 

How I Practise Counselling

My counselling practice is a place where you are invited to come exactly as you are — without performance, pretence, or pressure to be anything other than human.

I hold our time together as a space where words and silences both matter. Where what feels too much, too messy or too hidden can begin to find its shape and meaning. My work is grounded in the belief that when we feel deeply heard and seen — often in ways we’ve longed for but not found elsewhere — we can start to meet ourselves with the same honesty and care.

I practise with a humanistic heart and an integrative mind, drawing on Person-Centred, Transactional Analysis, and Gestalt approaches. This means I pay close attention to who you are, how you relate — to yourself and others — and how your old patterns and present moments meet in the counselling room.

Sometimes this work looks like speaking your story aloud for the first time. Sometimes it’s sitting quietly with what has no words yet. Sometimes it’s noticing a feeling that arrives unexpectedly, or a realisation that shifts something inside. I trust that you hold the seeds of your own change, and my role is to walk alongside you as those seeds find light and air.

I don’t believe in forcing insights or chasing solutions. I believe in meeting you where you are, with respect, honesty and warmth. I believe in slowing down enough to really hear what your deeper self wants you to know. And I believe that in the safety of a real, trusting relationship, it becomes possible to soften old defences, heal old wounds, and move towards the life you long for.

Whoever you are, whatever you bring — you are welcome here.

How I Practise Counselling

I offer a place where you don’t have to be anyone other than who you are, right now. Where you can lay down what you’ve been carrying — the stories you’ve never told, the feelings you’ve hidden even from yourself — and trust that they will be met with respect, not judgement.

My counselling room is not a place for fixing you, because I don’t believe you are broken. It’s a space for listening — not just to what you say, but to what aches beneath the words. It’s a space for noticing what wants to be felt, what needs to be spoken, what’s ready to come into the light.

I practise with an open heart and an attentive mind, grounded in humanistic values and an integrative approach. I draw from Person-Centred Therapy, Transactional Analysis, and Gestalt ideas — but what matters most to me is you, not the theory. The way you make sense of your world, the ways you protect yourself, the small moments of courage that happen when you let yourself be truly seen.

Sometimes our work might look like exploring old wounds and how they live on in you now. Sometimes it’s sitting together in the rawness of a feeling, without needing to tidy it away too soon. Sometimes it’s noticing what happens between us — the hesitations, the laughter, the tears that rise when you feel safe enough to let them.

I won’t tell you who you should be, or how fast you should change. I will be here — steady, honest, human — as you find your own way towards healing, choice, and a deeper sense of yourself.

Underneath it all, I trust that something in you knows how to grow — even when you can’t yet see it. My role is to help you listen for it, gently and bravely, until more of you feels possible.

However you arrive — you are welcome. All of you.