About Me

I am passionate about psychotherapy as a means to finding more fulfilling ways of living. I came to train as a psychotherapist following a stage of my life when I needed to embrace change myself. I was looking for a way we can explore ourselves at depth and held a belief this would lead to a life lived more fully.

As an integrative therapist, I draw on different models, theories and ideas to find what works for you and what resonates, rather than a fixed set of beliefs I try to convince you of. I draw on theories that look at the formative context of attachment and early experience. I draw on relational theories that support me in using our therapeutic relationship to create a ‘safe space’ for  you to see how you can be responded to, to notice how that impacts you, to recognise what you find helpful and reassuring and what you find difficult or aversive. I use embodied practices to pay attention to our bodily sensations and the physiological reality of our lives. I  draw on ideas of understanding the internal parts of people, how these parts influence our choices, interact with each other and can cause inner confusion.  It is important to me to ground my work in physical reality, to have a grasp of how our nervous systems work and to keep linking our experiences of ourselves, our internal processes to our bodies and physical processes. I am constantly learning, layering up my skills and knowledge from different ideas out in the world and from my clients.

I have experience working with anxiety, low mood and depression, grief, trauma, relationship difficulties, stage of life transitions and many more situations and experiences people find themselves in. I also have many years experience working with people who are neurodivergent, with a sound awareness of different communication styles, thinking styles and sensory differences and am open to making adjustments to my practice where I can.

I have completed training in an MA in Humanistic, Integrative Psychotherapy at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling over 7 years and began working in private practice in 2017.

I have recently trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and use these techniques within an integrated, relational framework.

Prior to this work, I have worked in many different health, mental health, educational and care contexts and been drawn to connecting with people, supporting them to find strength in situations that bring challenge.