Welcome.

I offer a safe space to holistically explore your thoughts, feelings and identity and to make life-affirming changes to support your mental health and well-being.

Together, we will build a compassionate environment where you can learn to better understand yourself and how you function in the world. We might focus on immediate life challenges, improve awareness of ongoing patterns of behaviour, and/or examine how your past impacts your present.

We’ll aim to bring mind and body more in tune with one another, and to heal internal conflicts between thoughts, feelings, and different parts of self. We will work to process difficult life experiences and to set you up for the future you wish for. 

I work with:

  • People experiencing relationship difficulties, such as romantic challenges, complex families, loneliness, and social anxiety.

  • Those with histories of trauma and abuse, seeking to understand how difficult past experiences might be impacting them today.

  • People processing loss, whether that be of loved ones, relationships, life stages, or parts of self.

  • Those wanting to understand all parts of themselves; their hopes, creativity, ideas and agency, as well as their darkness, shame, fears and impulses.

  • People exploring neurodiverse, bi-cultural, queer and trans identities and those exploring relationship models such as polyamory. I am LGBTQ+ affirming and strive for anti-oppressive practice.

Sessions with me will be warm, supportive, explorative, and collaborative. We will navigate goals and expectations together, regularly checking in to make sure you are getting what you need. Our relationship will be integral to the work; we will only explore areas when you feel safe and trusting to explore them with me. We might notice patterns in our relationship that tell us more about your other relationships. We might challenge parts of your current understanding, to increase self-awareness and broaden your sense of what might be possible for you.

What sessions are like:

Having lived in both rural towns and big cities and worked in a variety of settings, from the voluntary sector to the corporate world, I bring a breadth of life experience to my practice and a deep personal understanding of what it’s like to undertake significant life changes.

Volunteering for the Samaritans during the pandemic uncovered both my passion and potential for supporting people in crisis. Years of my own personal therapy and self-examination help to equip me to be alongside others in their self-exploration.

I also have a deep love of art and nature and believe in the power of these to support mental health.

A little about me:

My training primarily integrates psychodynamic, relational, existential and person-centred theories, though I draw on ideas and research from wider fields. I am dedicated to my own continued learning and development and use both personal therapy and clinical supervision to support me in my work.

I am a qualified BACP Counsellor and have an MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling. I am currently completing a one-year programme to achieve UKCP Psychotherapist accreditation. I adhere to both the BACP and UKCP codes of ethics.

Training and ethics:

Fees:

Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £65. Some concessionary spaces are available for £60; ask for details.

Availability:

I have availability Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at my office in Stirchley, South Birmingham. I also work with online clients on those days. Please contact me for Walk and Talk Therapy availability.

First steps:

Get in touch to arrange a free, no-obligation, 15-minute introductory call or video meeting.