My aim is to bring clarity, sensitivity and creativity to my work, with warmth, maturity and humour, offering fresh insight in supportive, affirming ways.

I have an impartial perspective, working both intuitively and with knowledge. Holding a perspective of self-determination, I view therapy as joint exploration, which may include exploring our resources, strengths, qualities alongside our limitations, frailties, vulnerabilities.

Recognising we are all unique, I don't hold a one-size-fits-all, tick-box approach, acknowledging that no one counselling approach explains the complexities or holds the truth for everyone. In my counselling & psychotherapy practice I bring together over 25 years experience of working with people. Please note, for relationship counselling, I DON'T SEE COUPLES. I ONLY see individuals privately (independently of their partner), who want to work through their OWN concerns, issues in their relationship.

Dip Counselling MA Psychotherapy Dip Psychotherapy BACP Accreditation UKCP Membership People come to therapy with various issues.

These may include:
- Seeking another perspective
- Making sense of our emotions
- Feeling stuck or a gap in our life
- Life at some sort of crossroads
- Sense of drifting in life
- Dilemmas / Confusion / Contradictions / Decision making
- Adjusting to change or a new phase in life (e.g. post university blues, new surroundings, relationships, parenthood, retirement)
- Feeling lost or seeking deeper sense of self
- Feeling out of touch in life
- Needing a different structure or strategy in life
- Making choices, decisions or difficulties managing life's uncertainties
- Feeling closed down in aspects of our life
- Living life as if on automatic
- Living life in compartmentalised boxes
- Excessively analytical - Either / Or thinking
- Preoccupation with future scenarios
- Excessively goal-orientated
- Crises
- Stress, Anxiety
- Frustration
- Anger
- Living with life's uncertainties or unknowns
- The pain of living a life unlived
- Life's disappointments
- Boredom
- Depression
- General anxiety
- Excessive worrying about future scenarios
- Fear
- Sense of feeling out of control
- Denial of needs or excessively needy
- Intimacy, love or commitment issues
- Relationships or marital problems, marriage guidance, family difficulties
- Feeling confident, fulfilled, creative or in control in some areas of life (e.g. work) yet not in others (e.g. relationships)
- Self-doubt, self-esteem and self-worth issues
- Excessive need for approval
- Shyness concerns
- No longer wanting to sabotage our life anymore
- Seeking a safe and secure place to stand in life, which feels authentic
- Risk-taking
- Wanting to be understood or to clarify thoughts (e.g. understanding of why we are the way we are)
- Trauma
- Abuse
- Guilt and shame
- Feeling like a fraud or "pseudo-self", unable to take off our "mask" or showing one face to the world yet experiencing difficulty being real with anyone (e.g. wanting to be ourselves rather than what we "should be")
- Health-related problems
- Bereavement / Grief