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Specialises in

• Counselling

• Psychotherapy

Offers

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

About me

*Please note: my therapy services are currently offered online only*

Are you struggling with anxiety, self-esteem or your relationships and looking for lgbtq+ affirming therapy? I specialise in working with queer clients to help them to feel good enough and more at ease.

Perhaps you often find it hard to trust your decisions and feel anxious that you're doing everything wrong. Maybe you find yourself replaying conversations in your head, cringing and wondering why you can't be �normal�. You might have had panic attacks or experienced trauma in the past and thought you'd worked through it, but now find you're starting to feel overwhelmed by things you used to handle easily and wonder if it's coming back.

Maybe dating and relationships are bringing up your 'stuff' (stuff about your sexuality, stuff about your ex, stuff about not being good enough) and it makes you worry about messing things up. But you know you want to work through your attachment issues before you end up being alone forever.

You might have a decent job that pays the bills, and feel like you should be grateful, but you're not making a difference to the world in the way you always hoped you would. You wonder if that energetic and creative part of you is gone for ever.

I offer queer affirmative therapy that can help you

- Learn to manage anxiety and panic attacks so they don't stop you living, working and making friends.

- Improve your confidence so you can trust in your decisions and start to feel good enough.

- Improve your relationships. Know yourself better and value yourself more so you can create and keep healthy relationships.

I set up my practice to use my lived experience and training to provide high-quality, trauma-informed therapy to my community and over the years I've had the privilege of working with many people to help them move through the things that have been holding them back.

I have over 5 years' experience as a therapist, including working for an LGBTQ+ charity, in private practice, and supporting staff and students at an FE college. I'm a BACP accredited therapist (which means I've met the organisation's higher standard as a competent, ethical and independent practitioner). My previous work in University and Arts settings and participation in activist/queer/feminist communities means I know first-hand the joys and challenges these spaces can bring.

I therefore have particular experience and interest in supporting clients facing workplace burnout and stress, navigating high pressure environments and work life balance, helping them to be their authentic selves.

My lived experience brings understanding of how anxiety and low self-esteem can make you feel like you're broken, and my own journey has brought me proof that change is always possible.

Working with me will give you a relaxed and non-judgemental space to be heard. I use my knowledge of attachment, how trauma impacts our nervous system, and insights and hope from my lived experience, to help you work out what to do to feel better. I strive to make my practice as anti-oppressive as possible, providing therapy that is queer affirmative, trauma informed and neuro-affirming.

We might be a good fit if you've had therapy before but didn't see lasting change, or you've previously felt misunderstood in therapy that wasn't queer-affirming. You might not be coming to therapy to talk about your gender or sexuality, but you don't want to spend your session time educating your therapist or worrying you're being judged.

Areas of interest

lgbt therapy; LGBTQIA; queer affirming; anxiety; self-esteem; low mood; trauma informed; confidence; communication; relationships; adults; childhood emotional neglect; panic attacks; attachment informed; relational therapy; integrative