What to Expect
I’m here to support you on your journey.
I believe that counselling is a collaborative process, with its foundation set in having a strong therapeutic relationship between client and therapist, with the client’s wellbeing at the heart. Everyone deserves the chance to tell their story and be heard.
Together, it may be that we explore your personal history to better understand the values, beliefs, and behaviours that influence your present-day experiences, look at current life stressors, explore relationship dynamics, give space to your concerns and hopes or provide space for you to be held in times of grief and loss.
Our work will include identifying strategies to help you navigate life’s challenges, create meaningful change, and reconnect with your authentic self.
Most importantly, this is a space where all emotions are welcome – including the difficult or uncomfortable ones. Allowing space for these feelings is an essential part of the healing process.
I will walk alongside you as you explore, feel, and make sense of your emotions, offering a safe and supportive space where you can share your personal experiences with comfort and ease.
When helpful, we can integrate a mind–body approach into our sessions. This may include mindfulness, grounding techniques, somatic awareness, and nervous system regulation. These practices can support emotional processing, helping difficult feelings rise, move through, and eventually settle, often in transformative ways.
There’s space here for truth, transformation and even laughter.
I am able to support you through the many challenges that life can bring, including:
- Anxiety & Low Mood
- Health Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
- Chronic Pain and Conditions
- Negative Thought Patterns
- Self Esteem & Shame
- Relational/Attachment issues
- Trauma / PTSD
- Work Place Stress / Burn out
- OCD / Intrusive thoughts
- Panic Attacks
- Narcissistic abuse
- Life Transitions
- Bereavement & Loss
- Life Re-Evaluation / Feeling Stuck
- Peri-Menopause / Menopause
- Parenting / Family Problems
Therapeutic models
I work with a range of therapeutic models, which I call upon to suit your needs in the moment, including Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, CBT, Person Centred, Rewind Therapy (for PTSD) and mind-body (somatic) work (including Pain Reprocessing Therapy).
I am an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).