Trauma-infromed therapy for burnout, anxiety and confidence
I provide neuro-affirming, trauma-informed therapy and have specialist experience in working with lgbtq+ clients. Based in Shipley (near Bradford and Leeds) and working with people online throughout the UK.
Sessions are held via zoom and cost £60 for a 50 minute session. Working online means you don’t need to worry about location and can instead focus on finding the right therapist for you.
A concessionary rate of £55 available for students and those on low incomes, please let me know in your enquiry e-mail if you require one of my concessionary spaces. I welcome enquiries from therapists and those on therapy/counselling training courses.
Health Insurance: I work with Bupa, AXA, Aviva and WPA insurers – please check your policy if you would like to use your insurance to pay for sessions and let me know when you get in touch.
My working hours are: Mon – Thursday 9am – 4pm.
Nov 25 update: I now have appointments available on Tuesdays at 4.30pm and 6pm. These are likely to be in high demand, please get in touch if you would like to work with me at these times.
If you work irregular shift patterns I can accomodate flexible session times within these working hours.
I organise meetings by e-mail so you don’t need to worry about taking an awkward phone call at an inconvenient time!
I help people in areas such as:
Anxiety and panic attacks
Improving Relationships
Improving relationships and communication, break ups, processing difficult past experiences and unhealthy family dynamics.
LGBTQ+ therapy
Exploring identity, coming out, experiences of discrimination, internalised prejudice
Increasing confidence and self-esteem
A harsh inner critic, difficulties trusting yourself and making decisions
Boundaries and assertiveness
Workplace issues
Career change, burnout, conflict at work
Major life changes
Career change, break ups, coping with disability diagnosis
Childhood Emotional Neglect
How to deal with the long-term impact of not having emotional needs met in childhood
What is therapy with me like?
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.
Want to Schedule an Appointment?
Read more of my writing on therapy:
What’s the point of therapy when the world is on fire? Therapy and activism
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What birdboxes taught me about healing trauma
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Music for our fight, flight and freeze response
At some point I found myself going through my playlists identifying music which for me encapsulated the fight, flight and freeze responses.
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The seemingly simple act of ‘self-care’ reveals itself to actually be a series of complex interlinked tasks which can be very challenging
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Are new year’s resolutions useful?
Are New Year’s Resolutions a useful way to approach change? This blog post contains some ideas for approaching the new year from a place of self-compassion.
Some of my favourite mental health books on mindset, trauma and self-compassion (part one!)
If you’re interested in finding out more about what might be behind issues such as anxiety, depression and low self-esteem and what you can do about it, I’ve listed some helpful mental health book suggestions below.
5 ways to get more out of therapy
Some ideas on how to get more out of therapy and make your sessions even more helpful if you’re looking to get the most out of your counselling sessions.









