About Me
I am an Integrative Psychotherapist and NHS Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, with particular experience and a passion for working with adolescents and young adults.
I hold an MA in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy from the University of Roehampton, graduating with Merit following a BACP-accredited clinical training programme, alongside a BA (Hons) in Therapeutic Psychology. My training included over 220 hours of supervised clinical psychotherapy practice across NHS and community settings.
Alongside my private practice, I work within the NHS supporting young people aged 11 to 21 with a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, neurodiversity, relationship difficulties, identity, trauma and periods of significant emotional distress.
My wider clinical background includes a two-year psychotherapy placement with ASCA, working with adults affected by substance misuse and addiction. Prior to this, I spent three years volunteering with Samaritans and The Listening Place, supporting people through emotional distress, suicidal thoughts and periods of crisis. Together, these experiences have given me a depth of experience in sitting alongside people through both the everyday challenges of life and times when things can feel much harder to manage.
My interest in the relationship between our physical and emotional wellbeing has also led me to undertake further professional development alongside my psychotherapy training. I have completed Nutrition for Health: Evidence-Based Tools and Strategies with Imperial College London, International Accredited EFT Level 1 training with The EFT Centre, and Reiki First and Second Degree training with The Reiki Academy London, incorporating both the Western and Japanese lineages of the Usui System of Reiki.
These areas of learning reflect my wider interest in the different ways we experience and make sense of ourselves, and continue to inform the whole-person perspective I bring to my therapeutic work.
While my training and clinical experience are an important foundation for my work, I believe therapy is ultimately about the relationship we create together. I aim to offer a space where you can feel genuinely heard and understood, with room to explore whatever has brought you to therapy openly and without judgement.
Therapy With Me
Our relationship sits at the heart of the work. I believe you are the expert in your own experience. Rather than seeing therapy as one person having all the answers, I see us as fellow travellers, exploring together with openness, curiosity and compassion.
Our work can offer space to gently explore the feelings, relationships and patterns that have shaped you, including parts of yourself that may have felt difficult to understand, express or make sense of. There is no expectation of who you should be, only space to become more curious about who you are.
I won't come to our work with a fixed idea of who you should be or what your therapy should look like. I work integratively, which means our work can be shaped around you, drawing on different ways of understanding your experience depending on what feels most helpful and meaningful to you.
I believe healing is not about erasing the past, but learning how to carry it differently, allowing it to become a source of wisdom, compassion and meaningful change.
Who I work with
In my psychotherapy work, I work with clients aged 16 and over, with a particular passion for supporting older adolescents and young adults. These stages of life can bring questions around identity, relationships, belonging and direction, alongside the pressures of navigating an increasingly complex world.
People come to therapy for many different reasons. You may be experiencing anxiety, low mood, difficulties with self-esteem or relationships, emotional overwhelm, neurodiversity, the impact of difficult or traumatic experiences, or patterns that seem to keep repeating. You may be going through a significant change in your life, or simply feel ready to understand yourself more deeply.
You do not need to be in crisis to come to therapy. Sometimes therapy begins with a sense that something needs to change, a wish to make sense of how you are feeling, or simply the feeling that you no longer want to carry things alone.