My Approach

Therapists tend to attract clients who share some common themes in what they want to focus on. The themes that recur in my work are shown below, but I will of course work with whatever a client brings:

• Relationship breakdown: breakups, divorce and separation among married clients, the continuing impact of divorce or separation between parents during childhood
• Finding and deepening relationships: navigating dating, messaging, maintaining relationships; finding truthful relationship styles, noticing co-dependency, unconscious processes being acted out
• Unhappiness: living with lack of motivation, joy, meaning and self-worth; feeling anxious or depressed; stuckness; self-criticism and attack, suicidal thoughts, impact of suicide of a parent
• Connecting with feelings and the body: coming to see how necessary survival strategies such as ‘getting on with life’ may have resulted in disconnection from painful feelings, which could now be felt and integrated
• Neurodiversity: exploring the process of discovering and diagnosing neurodiversity and its expression in life now
• Dependency on substances: living with long-term substance use and seeking release
• Personal development: seeing the deficits in care and love in childhood, separating from the family and social expectations, individuating, owning shadow, discovering and living true gender and sexual identities, finding an outlook on life that is more aligned, cultivating practices that provide self-support

I see therapy as a process in which clients gradually come to discover what they already know about who they are and what is important to them. I provide an attentive, non-judgmental container. I don’t have special wisdom to impart but I will share my responses and reflections.

About Me

offer space for people who wish to explore fundamental issues. Some are driven to counselling by a current crisis that means they need support. Others have been managing perfectly well but decide that repeating destructive patterns or underlying dissatisfaction now deserve attention.

I hold Diplomas in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling and Psychotherapy from Re-Vision. This is 'counselling with a soulful perspective'. The strongest influence in the training is Jung. In this perspective, times of real difficulty or despair are seen as holding a potential for change and growth.

In our work you will be heard and witnessed. You will be able to share as much as you choose about your difficulties and the pain you may feel.

For three years I worked in the student counselling service of my local university. One theme I noticed is that many people are still deeply affected by the divorce of their parents.

Being connected to nature is important to me. I live in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire. My home consulting room is in my garden, with views over fields and woods. I can work with clients outdoors in nature.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a marketing consultant in professional and financial services. I’m familiar with the tension this world creates between business success and personal life. I know the pressure it puts on building and sustaining relationships. 

I recognise and welcome diversity among my clients in all its forms, including cultural diversity, Gender Relationship and Sexual Diversity (GRSD and LGBTQIA+) and neurodiversity. 

I’m comfortable in the world of conscious sexuality and work with clients exploring their experiences and feelings around sexual identity and open relating/polyamory.

I offer a free half-hour phone or video call to meet me and discuss the possibility of working together.

I work with

• Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• ADHD
• Adoption
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Divorce
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Suicide