My practice ensures a protected space to voice experiences and to feel heard and understood. My focus is on building a trusting relationship and a secure platform that empowers individuals to construct a more meaningful life.

 

With these values in mind and over ten years of experience, I have had the privilege of supporting a wide range of adults, parents and children across the NHS and private practice. I have worked within adult primary care and child and adolescent primary care services, crisis and inpatient units, child and adult trauma response services, and long-term physical health, chronic pain management and Neuropsychology services.

 

My therapeutic approach is centred around the idea that our life experiences, cultural, diverse, and possible neurodiverse (e.g., ADHD, Autism) backgrounds shape the views and beliefs we hold about ourselves, others and the world around us, which affect the patterns in our thinking, behaviours and interactions each day as we try to protect ourselves. I aim to spend as much or as little time as desired, supporting individuals to make sense of their past life experiences, to understand how they have learned to cope with their beliefs and fears in a way that might be keeping them stuck and maintaining their current difficulties.

 

With this shared picture in mind, I then work with individuals to tailor therapy to their needs and goals, offering a range of tools and techniques to build useful coping mechanisms. I utilise and often integrate a range of therapeutic modalities including Attachment-based, Schema, Narrative and Systemic approaches, with a particular grounding in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and “third wave” CBT approaches, including Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), Acceptance & Commitment (ACT) Therapy, and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT).