I am a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist and counsellor with 8 years experience working with clients across a broad range of issues including trauma, domestic abuse, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, bereavement (including loss of a beloved pet), and adverse childhood attachment experiences. My relational approach offers a confidential, warm, empathic and non-judgmental space for you to reflect on any areas of your life you may be struggling with. I have experience working for the NHS, the charity sector, secondary education, higher education and within a residential trauma clinic.
For me, therapy is about accepting my client as a unique human being, whose individual beliefs create distinctive characteristics that will inform what is needed for their therapy to be successful, and I draw upon a wide range of theories to fit the uniqueness of each individual client. Integrative psychotherapy embraces individuality and values the full range of levels of functioning including behavioural, cognitive, affective and physiological, as well as the spiritual dimension of life.
My special area of interest is how traumatic experiences can overwhelm us and get stuck in the body, leading to dysregulation of the nervous system. Through my Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma training, I will support you in tending to anxiety and depression to help regulate your nervous system to restore a capacity for active and appropriate defenses, and rediscover the capacity to relax, rest and fully engage in your life.
I will offer you an initial assessment session with the aim of understanding what has brought you to therapy and to explore what success may look like for you. I work on both a short and long-term basis, whichever suits your needs.
I adhere to the UKCP code of ethics and I maintain professional indemnity insurance.