My Approach
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Therapy with me is collaborative, relational, and grounded in creating a space where you can feel safe enough to explore what’s difficult - at your own pace. I believe that meaningful change happens through relationship, understanding, and the gradual development of self-compassion and choice.
I work integratively, drawing on relational and attachment-based thinking, and I pay close attention to how your past experiences may be shaping your present patterns. Together, we look at what has helped you survive, what may now be limiting you, and how new ways of relating to yourself and others can begin to emerge.
How I work
I offer individual counselling and psychotherapy, working collaboratively with whatever you choose to bring. Some sessions may focus on present-day difficulties, while others involve exploring earlier experiences and relational patterns. There is no expectation to talk about anything before you feel ready.
I aim to provide a space that is warm, respectful, and emotionally containing, where strong feelings can be explored without judgement or blame.
What Therapy Can Offer
Therapy can offer a space to slow things down and make sense of what is happening beneath the surface. Rather than focusing on fixing or changing you, the work is about understanding - how your feelings, thoughts, and responses developed, and what they may be protecting or responding to.
Through being met with consistency, curiosity, and care, many people begin to feel more emotionally regulated, less overwhelmed, and more able to respond to themselves and others with choice rather than reaction. Change tends to happen gradually, through insight, relationship, and the experience of feeling understood.
Working with Anger and Strong Emotions
Anger often develops as a way of protecting ourselves when something feels overwhelming, unsafe, or unfair. For some people it shows up as irritability or outbursts; for others it turns inward and is experienced as shame, self-criticism, or emotional shutdown.
In therapy, we can explore where anger comes from, what it may be trying to protect, and how to relate to it in ways that feel safer and more manageable. This work can be helpful if you struggle with emotional intensity, fear your own reactions, or feel stuck in cycles of anger and self-blame.
Anxiety, Overwhelm, and Emotional Regulation
Living with ongoing anxiety or overwhelm can leave you feeling constantly on edge, exhausted, or disconnected from yourself. Often these experiences are linked to earlier ways of coping that were once necessary but no longer serve you.
Through therapy, we can begin to understand these patterns, develop greater emotional regulation, and create more space for calm, choice, and self-trust.
Professional Framework
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and work in accordance with its ethical framework and professional standards.
Above all, I believe that you already have the capacity to grow and change. My role is not to heal you, but to support you in understanding yourself more deeply and finding your own way forward.
