Sometimes life moves fast and can feel overwhelming - especially when we’re under pressure, feeling low, or carrying something difficult.
Therapy offers a quiet space to slow down and listen to what’s really going on inside. Together, we’ll explore your thoughts, feelings and body-based signals with care and curiosity at your own pace and in your own way. This gentle approach is suitable for anxiety, stress, burnout, low mood, and emotional overwhelm as well as trauma and addictions.
Therapy offers a quiet space to slow down and listen to what’s really going on inside. Together, we’ll explore your thoughts, feelings and body-based signals with care and curiosity at your own pace and in your own way. This gentle approach is suitable for anxiety, stress, burnout, low mood, and emotional overwhelm as well as trauma and addictions.
During our sessions, you’ll be introduced to an inner listening method called focusing - a gentle, body-based technique that helps you stay with your emotions in a way that feels safe and manageable. This is very much a learnable skill, and something we practise together, so you can begin to use it in your everyday life. When emotions are approached in this way - even painful or overwhelming ones - they often begin to shift, allowing you to move from confusion or distress towards something calmer and clearer.
Your therapy will be unique to you but along the way we may use some of these approaches:
Focusing: This is a gentle but very effective way of exploring your inner knowing by getting in touch with, and more accepting of, your feelings as you experience them. As a British Focusing Association Recognised focusing practitioner, I will be able to support you in learning this nourishing tool for self-care.
Relational therapy: Petruska Clarkson's integrative psychotherapeutic framework, in which I trained, sets out five different kinds of relationship that exist between client and therapist. In our work together, we may move between these different ways of relating.
Polyvagal theory: These tools and exercises help you to become more familiar with the messages your nervous system is giving you and learning to understand your world and your responses through the lens of your bodily responses to them.
SandStory: In this gentle creative approach you reflect on your inner journey using a tray of sand and figures.
Clay work: this is a form of active psychotherapy in which you use clay as a means to look at feelings and emotions. I am a trainee on this Play Therapy UK approved course and am particularly drawn to the existential and Jungian dimensions of this therapeutic process.
Walk and talk: Nature is the best healer. If you would rather be out walking than sat in a room, then we can take the counselling sessions into the woods.
Self-compassion: I hold the heartfelt belief that self-kindness is the key to deep change. Compassion Focused approaches can help you to develop this attitude towards yourself.
Focusing: This is a gentle but very effective way of exploring your inner knowing by getting in touch with, and more accepting of, your feelings as you experience them. As a British Focusing Association Recognised focusing practitioner, I will be able to support you in learning this nourishing tool for self-care.
Relational therapy: Petruska Clarkson's integrative psychotherapeutic framework, in which I trained, sets out five different kinds of relationship that exist between client and therapist. In our work together, we may move between these different ways of relating.
Polyvagal theory: These tools and exercises help you to become more familiar with the messages your nervous system is giving you and learning to understand your world and your responses through the lens of your bodily responses to them.
SandStory: In this gentle creative approach you reflect on your inner journey using a tray of sand and figures.
Clay work: this is a form of active psychotherapy in which you use clay as a means to look at feelings and emotions. I am a trainee on this Play Therapy UK approved course and am particularly drawn to the existential and Jungian dimensions of this therapeutic process.
Walk and talk: Nature is the best healer. If you would rather be out walking than sat in a room, then we can take the counselling sessions into the woods.
Self-compassion: I hold the heartfelt belief that self-kindness is the key to deep change. Compassion Focused approaches can help you to develop this attitude towards yourself.
A little more about me
Let me share a little more about my background so that you can decide if I am the person to share your journey. I've been working as a psychotherapeutic counsellor for 10 years - first, as a bereavement support worker with Cruse (2015), then with agencies such as Anxiety UK and Mind, and now in my own practice, from a cabin that looks out onto trees. I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and hold a postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling (2019).
I am deeply committed to understanding what it means to be human and what it means to be in relationship with each other in these messy times. I have spent many years exploring my own inner world from an creative, experiential perspective and reading about different approaches. The most profound transformation came from learning Eugene Gendlin's focusing. This led to me training as a British Focusing Association focusing practitioner . I find creativity particularly insightful in therapeutic work. I am a SandStory therapist and finalising my training in clay therapy and dynamic expressive focusing.
For the past five years, I've also been the editor for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's spirituality journal, Thresholds. This work is inspirational because it enables me to absorb the words and working practices of many experienced, soulful counsellors and psychotherapists working in the UK and beyond. This has deeply inspired my own practice. I also edit counselling and psychotherapy books, including the wonderful Kitchen Therapy by Charlotte Hastings - a creative and intuitive exploration of food and psychotherapy. It was a joy to be part of this project.
Let me share a little more about my background so that you can decide if I am the person to share your journey. I've been working as a psychotherapeutic counsellor for 10 years - first, as a bereavement support worker with Cruse (2015), then with agencies such as Anxiety UK and Mind, and now in my own practice, from a cabin that looks out onto trees. I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and hold a postgraduate diploma in integrative counselling (2019).
I am deeply committed to understanding what it means to be human and what it means to be in relationship with each other in these messy times. I have spent many years exploring my own inner world from an creative, experiential perspective and reading about different approaches. The most profound transformation came from learning Eugene Gendlin's focusing. This led to me training as a British Focusing Association focusing practitioner . I find creativity particularly insightful in therapeutic work. I am a SandStory therapist and finalising my training in clay therapy and dynamic expressive focusing.
For the past five years, I've also been the editor for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's spirituality journal, Thresholds. This work is inspirational because it enables me to absorb the words and working practices of many experienced, soulful counsellors and psychotherapists working in the UK and beyond. This has deeply inspired my own practice. I also edit counselling and psychotherapy books, including the wonderful Kitchen Therapy by Charlotte Hastings - a creative and intuitive exploration of food and psychotherapy. It was a joy to be part of this project.
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