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• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I am an experienced therapist offering online therapy to individual clients aged 16 years and above.

Therapy provides an opportunity to better understand ourselves, untangle inner conflicts and bring about positive change. Your sessions with me are confidential and provide you with a space to talk freely, separate from your personal and professional networks. It can be the place where you drop the social script; you don't have to pretend to me that you are feeling fine or make small talk about the weather.

I acknowledge that the environments we grew up in and what we experience as we move through the stages of our lives, can leave us with emotional wounds and unhealthy coping mechanisms.

I am experienced in working with clients who suffered from emotional abuse and neglect as children from their care givers. The impact of childhood abuse can be far reaching and can and does, impact a person well into adulthood. Did you feel like you could not be yourself growing up? Did you fear criticism, judgement or ridicule? Was there a domineering character in the family who left you walking on eggshells?

The impact of abuse may have left you with feelings of anxiety, depression and perhaps a feeling of aloneness, coupled with a strong need to be self sufficient, as you learnt early on that you couldn't rely on those around you for support.

I am experienced in working with hyper independent clients, who tend to be very high functioning, until suddenly life gets too much and they feel like everything is unravelling. You may be very successful professionally, but struggle with intimacy and showing up in relationships. Are you the master of high functioning, whilst chronically feeling like a walking raw nerve ending? We can explore this at your own pace.

Another area of experience is working with bereavement and loss. I trained with the nationwide charity, Cruse Bereavement Support, and supported clients who had experienced bereavement and loss. The loss may have occurred recently or decades ago. Grief is complex and there are no rules about how each individual will process their feelings and emotions.

Sometimes a feeling of detachment and a sense of going through the motions can creep up; you continue to function and meet the demands of your life, but you feel numbed out and like you are getting through each day on auto pilot. Your feelings are valid and we can explore this.

I work with relational difficulties, whether that's struggles in a couples relationship, family tensions or issues at work with your boss or colleagues. We can explore challenges in communication and connection with others.

I work in an integrative way, which means I draw upon various modalities, mainly Person Centred therapy with elements of Gestalt and Psychodynamic. I will support you and work with you, to improve your emotional well being. I tailor the therapy to suit your individual needs and can offer short or longer term sessions.

Areas of interest

Bereavement and loss; Complex family dynamics; People pleasing behaviours; Burnout; Anxiety; Low mood; Depression, Work place stress; Relationship issues; Stress; Feeling sad; Abuse; Low self esteem; Childhood abuse and neglect