Hello!

Before training as a counsellor, I worked as a trainee clinical psychologist with people with learning disabilities or on the autistic spectrum. As rewarding as this was, I started to understand that I needed more life experience to find my place in the world.  But I'd always held a passion for  the power of psychology. Twenty years of working in the public sector helping people to access services has instilled a real need to continue to help people within me.

After entering therapy to find support with bereavement, I also found the power to stop trying to fit myself into other people's, and society's expectations of me. At each stage of my counselling training I found new ways to understand my values, mindset, behaviour and emotions, and change them when they no longer helped me.  Through my own counselling journey,  I'm now exactly where I want to be.

Therapy has had such an important impact on my life that I'm passionate to help my clients not only through life's difficult times, but also to a more fulfilling life.  

Because I'm trained to work in different ways, there's no one therapy that fits everyone  - if it doesn't feel right, then there's always a different way to try.  All my sessions are client-led because you're the expert on your life, so I'll always explain my thoughts around what we could try and what we focus on, but you'll decide. You can always say no! You're the boss.

Outside of work you may find me forest-bathing in nature or trying (badly) to get better at yoga! Hope to see you soon.  Contact me