About me
I offer counselling to individuals and couples and am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), registration number 00815695.

My own life experience includes navigating the challenges of growing up feeling different and highly sensitive within environments that were not always supportive. This has shaped my interest in how people adapt in order to cope with difficult circumstances and how we can heal from them. Finding a therapist that sees and recognises what is going on for you is a great first step. I had 5 therapists before finding one that actually ‘saw' me’. She didn’t have any special qualifications or a Phd, just the usual amount of training but with a lot of patience and awareness. This is why I will always offer a no obligation 15 minute call, because there is no way of knowing whose the right therapist for you without speaking first.

Many of the strategies we develop early in life are actually creative ways of surviving situations where we had little control. These adaptations can be helpful when we are young, but later in life they can sometimes leave us feeling disconnected or stuck.

People I work with often describe experiences such as:

• Feeling emotionally numb or cut off

• Difficulty forming close relationships unless they feel very safe or familiar

• Staying in work or situations that don’t feel right in order to survive or fit in

• Loneliness or a sense of being separate from others

• Feeling as though other people are more capable or “more adult”

• A sense that life is happening somewhere else, or will begin later

• Feeling behind where you “should” be in life

• Believing in others more easily than believing in yourself

• Losing touch with your interests or sense of identity

Experiencing some of these feelings does not mean something is wrong with you. Often they are signs that earlier emotional needs were not fully met or recognised. Therapy can help make sense of these experiences and begin to reconnect you with parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside.

I also have a particular interest in how trauma and cumulative life experiences can shape our internal world. Trauma is not always a single dramatic event; sometimes it develops through repeated moments of misattunement or feeling unseen. Over time this can lead people to prioritise safety, avoid risk in relationships, strive for perfection, or expend significant energy trying to appear “fine”.

For LGBTQ+ people, these patterns can be intensified by minority stress and the pressure to adapt to social expectations. I’m interested in how these experiences shape identity and how reconnecting with others in supportive spaces can be healing.

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Contact

I work online only currently

If you are interested in finding out more about counselling, please feel free to drop me an email or book a chat