Work with me
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Are you struggling with anxiety or relationship difficulties and looking for queer affirming therapy?
I specialise in working with LGBTQ+ clients and those who have always felt different in some way. I set up my practice to use my lived experience and training to provide high-quality, trauma-informed therapy to my community. Over the years I’ve had the privilege of working with many people to help them move through the things that have been holding them back.
Sessions are held online via zoom and cost £55 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 £50 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.
My working hours are: Mon – Thursday 9am – 4pm.
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, include 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:
– Stop sabotaging your relationships through constantly asking for reassurance or your fears of getting close. Know yourself better and communicate more effectively so you can create and keep healthy relationships.
– Improve your confidence so you can feel sure of your decisions and less guilt about your needs
– Learn to manage anxiety so it doesn’t stop you living, working and making friends.