I’m an integrative therapist with experience of working with children, teens and adults. As an integrative practitioner, I believe that no one size fits all and I offer the flexibility to integrate different approaches in order to adapt the therapy to best suit your individual needs. I always put the therapeutic relationship at the heart of my work with clients and work in a trauma informed, neurodiversity, sexuality and gender affirming way, with the aim of creating a safe, warm, non-judgemental space. With a background in working creatively, I am open to finding different ways of collaboratively exploring the issues that are important to you.I
I have a particular interest in the ways that early attachments can impact on our relational patterns throughout our lives and I have significant experience of working with adoptive and kinship care families and young people who have experienced early life trauma. Before training as a therapist, I worked for 23 years in in the education sector as a primary school teacher, senior leader and a specialist mentor for university students.
I have supported clients with a variety of common areas, including, but not limited to:
- Anxiety and depression
- Bereavement and loss
- Neurodiversity (ADHD and Autism)
- Self-esteem
- Bullying
- Workplace stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Self-harm
- Domestic abuse
- Trauma
- Families and relationships
- The impact of childhood trauma
- Parenting
- Emotionally based school avoidance