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I provide face to face counselling Friday and Saturday in Chiswick.  I offer online counselling at other times. 

Are you finding it difficult to face the day with anxiety bubbling under the surface? Where life feels like one struggle after another and you can’t see a way forward. You may notice anxiety is impacting on many areas of your life such as your studies, work, relationships, your health, physical long-term condition or neurodiversity  (diagnosed or not). You find managing daily routines more difficult, are overwhelming and exhausting.

I can help you look at your anxiety, at what’s feeding into your worries and causing the overwhelm, and help you learn to press the pause button to put healthier strategies in place while we unpick the underlying causes of the anxiety. We will look at what is happening in the present – difficult life challenges, a transition, a traumatic event, difficulties at work, a relationship breakdown or bereavement.  We can also look further back into your past, to see how difficult childhood experiences and negative core beliefs may be impacting your present and feeding into your anxieties.

I am an Integrative Therapist with 17 years of experience working with young people, adults and older adults. This means I draw on a variety of theoretical approaches to best suit your needs. To explain this simply, we can give space to the here and now and immediate challenges you are facing and look at ways to support you put better strategies in place, tapping into your existing strengths to help unpick the anxiety. 

We can go further into past experiences and patterns that are still impacting you in the present, to help you release past traumas,  difficulties within your life and negative core beliefs that are holding you back.  

I focus on safety, a contained environment and a pace that works for you, as anxiety and overwhelm can make everything feel challenging. I use a number of techniques to reinforce safety and grounding such as using Polyvagal Theory and use of mindfulness and other grounding exercises. I can also work creatively, when words are not enough.

I draw on my Counselling Training and ongoing Continued Professional Development which includes Humanistic, Gestalt (including parts work), Psychodynamic, CBT, Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, Inner Child work, Neurodiverse Aware Counselling, Creative Counselling and my Psychology degree.

I have worked in a variety of setting including the NHS, Disability Charity, Carers Charity, a trauma-impacted community, Employee Assistance Programme for Aviva, Bupa and Macmillan Cancer  Clients, a National Children's Mental Health Charity, in schools and in Private Practice.

I offer an initial free 30 minute session via zoom or phone call, to give you space to discuss what is bringing you to counselling, to see whether we would be a good fit and whether you wish to take the next step.