About Me and My Approach
Therapy doesn’t have to start with perfect words
It begins with being seen, heard and met exactly where you are. Whether you call it counselling or therapy, it’s support meeting you where you are.
I’m a psychotherapeutic counsellor who supports adults through grief, complex loss, and overwhelming chapters of life. If you’ve found your way here, it may be because you’re carrying something heavy, or ready to stop carrying it alone. I’ll walk alongside you at your pace.
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Why I Became a Counsellor
Before becoming a counsellor, I spent over a decade on mental health helplines. These brief yet powerful conversations left me wanting to go deeper, to accompany someone through lasting change. I’ve long been drawn to relational, supportive roles, beginning with YouthNet in the late 2000s. Working with young people navigating mental health struggles and early adulthood pressures showed me the quiet strength of steady empathy and honesty. After years in mental health agencies, I moved into private practice to work without limits on session numbers or support types, to help people as fully as possible, with all the tools and creativity available. Personally and professionally, I’ve seen how much can shift when someone really sees you. A trusting therapeutic relationship can open space for clarity, change, and connection.
Support with Grief and Complex Loss
I specialise in grief, including losses often left unspoken: miscarriage, baby loss, bereavement by suicide, or the death of a working animal or beloved pet. I’ve supported people through many forms of loss, including with Cruse and the Blue Cross, and have a particular interest in the isolating experience of suicide bereavement.
Since 2019, I’ve also supported people in acute emotional distress through Shout, a crisis text line. While I don’t offer emergency intervention, I understand how disorientating those moments can be and I bring that steadiness into my counselling work.
My Therapeutic Approach
I’m an integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor grounded in person-centred values: empathy, honesty and respect shape the foundation of our work. I don’t believe in pushing for progress before you're ready. I don’t ask you to explain what’s hard to name. Together, we create a space where insight can emerge through connection. We’ll pause often to notice what’s shifting and what still feels stuck. This helps keep the work grounded in your needs. For clients referred through The Person-Centred Association, (TPCA): I offer counselling rooted exclusively in the person-centred approach, focused on your pace, your voice and your process. I’m happy to talk through what this means if you’d like more information.
When helpful, I also draw on:
CBT to explore the patterns between thoughts, feelings and behaviour
Psychodynamic ideas to understand how past experience echoes into the present
Body-orientated approaches including Somatic Experiencing to help balance the nervous system
Creative approaches: drawing, music, movement or writing, when words don’t quite fit
You don’t need to be artistic to work creatively. Curiosity about what feels natural is enough.
While I mainly work with individuals, I also support people in partnerships navigating change, particularly where disability, illness, or caregiving roles have reshaped connection or communication. I welcome clients in non-traditional, queer, or culturally diverse relationships, and offer a space to explore these dynamics with depth, clarity, and mutual respect.
In my work with couples and other partnerships, I draw on Imago Relationship Therapy, a structured approach encouraging honest, attuned dialogue and supporting reconnection where pain, difference, or major life changes have disrupted trust or closeness.
Blindness as Identity and Insight
I’m a blind counsellor and that’s not a footnote, it’s a meaningful part of who I am.
Blindness shapes how I navigate the world, not as something I endure but as part of how I relate, adapt and do this work. It’s sharpened my creativity, flexibility and belief in people’s ability to meet challenges with resourcefulness.
I know what it means to move through spaces not designed with you in mind and how much it matters to be met with attunement and respect. These insights shape the space I hold: inclusive, imaginative, and shaped by seeing the world differently, in every sense.
Beyond the Therapy Room
Outside sessions, I’m a classically trained soprano singer, actor, and voiceover artist. I might be recording an audiobook, working on a script, or at my piano arranging music. That piano lives in my therapy room and sometimes, it’s part of the work.
Whether through sound, silence or shared presence, my life has always centred on expression and helping others reconnect with theirs.
What Does ‘counsellor’ Mean Anyway?
I'm a psychotherapeutic counsellor, trained in relational, integrative talk therapy grounded in emotional and psychological understanding. In the UK, ‘counsellor’ and ‘therapist’ are often used interchangeably, though I’m not a clinical psychologist. Whatever the title, this work is about support offered with compassion, insight and respect.
Curious About Working Together?
If something’s weighing on you and you’re ready for things to feel different, I’m here. You don’t need to know exactly where to start, just reach out when you’re ready.