I am a qualified humanistic therapist providing counselling (short-term) and psychotherapy (longer-term) for individuals over the age of 18. I am an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

I focus on the Gestalt and Existential approaches to therapy, which you can read about in more detail on the next page. My approach primarily explores your here-and-now experience and its relationship with your environment, relationships, past experiences, and the realities of being human. It can help you creatively manage a decision, event or crisis, or explore deeper aspects of yourself and your relationships. It is informal, honest, empathic, and sometimes playful and experimental. It explores how you notice and meet your needs, or ignore them to protect yourself. It expands your flexibility and choice to be different, sometimes contradictory things (strong and vulnerable, serious and funny, solitary and sociable), allowing you to be adaptive in a changing world.

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I was previously a mental health researcher exploring how we know whether people benefit from therapy, the stories people tell about their lives, and the Recovery Approach. I have delivered psycho-educational groups on "shame", supported older people in their homes, and worked with people with a wide range of diagnoses, including eating disorders, borderline personality disorder, depression, anxiety, and psychosis.