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If you're looking at this website, you might be facing difficulties and worries in your emotional life, be feeling distressed and needing help with a specific issue, struggling to come to terms with a traumatic event or loss, or perhaps seeking a clearer perspective on your life, on making choices and on how to move towards a more positive future.

For most of us, it has been necessary to develop an identity or sense of self in order to feel accepted or enough. Maintaining this requires adopting patterns, strategies and beliefs and while these can feel as though they work well for many years, they eventually keep us stuck or put blocks in the way of growth.

As your therapist I work with you to understand what these patterns and beliefs are, recognise where they get in the way, and discover where they came from.

As we do this we heal habits such as people pleasing or co-dependancy, we understand where you may have lost your voice or disowned your feelings, identify where you may have begun to see yourself as less than and how you compare yourself negatively to others, where you have lost your trust and belief in yourself as worthy and enough.

By combining relational therapy with mind set coaching we aim to expose and disown the outdated beliefs and survival strategies, to introduce boundary setting, effective communication skills, healthy habits, kind internal dialogue and the ability to truly show up for yourself. This in turn improves your relationships with others and the experience of living your life.

My special interests are working with historic abuse and trauma, working with change and letting go of destructive patterns of thinking and behaving, working with life stage changes such as becoming a parent, relationships, recovering from or managing relationship with narcissists.

I am a fully qualified clinical supervisor, working with individuals or groups from an integrative perspective.

I have also had 10 years experience of training and lecturing in counselling and can offer support to student counsellors with a thorough understanding of course requirements.

I work integratively with Person Centred as my core model, integrating CBT, TA and Existential ideas.

My style of supervision is relational, encouraging growth and autonomy through challenge and teaching.

I have a strong commitment to ethical practice and encourage supervisees to develop their own evaluating process with reference to the Íø±¬ÃÅ ethical framework.