Working with me will give you a relaxed and non-judgemental space to be heard. I use my knowledge of attachment, how trauma impacts our nervous system, and insights and hope from my lived experience, to help you work out what to do to feel better. I strive to make my practice as anti-oppressive as possible, providing therapy that is queer affirmative, trauma informed and neuro-affirming.

Together, we will explore patterns in your relationships, how your past might be affecting your present and what to do about it. Working relationally means I’ll be keeping an eye on how your patterns might play out in the therapy room and looking out for opportunities for us to practice doing things differently, so you can grow the confidence to make the changes you want in the real world.
My counselling draws from a range of therapy models, including Relational Psychotherapy, Attachment-informed, Compassion and polyvagal/somatic (body-focused) approaches.

We might be a good fit if you’ve had therapy before but didn’t see lasting change, or you’ve previously felt misunderstood in therapy that wasn’t queer-affirming. You might not be coming to therapy to talk about your gender or sexuality, but you don’t want to spend your session time educating your therapist or worrying you’re being judged.

Working with me can help you:

– Learn to manage anxiety and panic attacks so they don’t stop you living, working and making friends.

– Improve your confidence so you can trust in your decisions and start to feel better about yourself.

– Improve your relationships and your communication. Know and value yourself more so you can create and keep healthy relationships.

– You’ve had therapy before but you didn’t see lasting change.

As well as teaching grounding strategies, my work goes to a deeper level to help uncover and heal from the root causes of your anxiety and current coping strategies.  This can be particularly helpful if you feel like you already understand why you respond the way you do but don’t know how to change.

– You want a down-to-earth therapist, who will be real with you and be active in your therapy sessions.

Find out more about me and my approach to therapy

– You don’t want someone who only knows about trauma and anxiety from a textbook.

My lived experience of mental health distress means I get things in a way that’s never going to be purely academic.  I know how hard it can feel to sit on ‘the other chair’ in the therapy room, how challenging it can be to face difficult feelings and experiences and heal.  I don’t have everything together, but I know the difference between my stuff and yours and I do what I can to ensure my nervous system is in a robust enough place to support you.

– You’ve previously felt misunderstood in therapy and you don’t want to spend your session time educating your therapist about your queer identity.

Part of the reason I set up my private practice was to provide high-quality therapy to queer clients, I’d heard about too many microaggressions which shouldn’t have been happening and were stalling the progress of lgbtq+ clients in therapy.  Along with my lived experience of lgbtq+ communities, my therapy practice and training have focused on work with queer communities.

– You are ready to try something new and are aware that therapy can take work and time.