My Approach

I am an Integrative Arts Psychotherapist. This means I will be able to form a unique treatment to meet your needs and I am skilled at using various art forms, imagination and metaphor to support your therapy. The use of the arts is an option available to you which I can support you with, equally we can just talk. I practice in a relational embodied way where creativity can support self expression, finding ways to explore that which is beyond words or hard to speak about. It can also help us to connect and explore deeper in to the underlying issues which bring you to therapy.

I offer a space where you are welcome to explore whatever is troubling you or making your life difficult currently. You may know what you want out of therapy or it may be a little less clear, and this is all ok. I will support you in an engaging way to work through this. It may be that current stressors are impacting your personal, social or work life, it could be relationships or experiences past or present.

About Me

I have 14 years’ experience working in the NHS Mental Health services. 10 of those years working in a specialist Eating Disorder Community Service at senior level with severe and enduring Eating Disorders. I am also experienced in working with other areas of mental health, working with complexity, and supporting individuals where there may also be other issues alongside Eating Disorders such as complex PTSD, or past traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse, living with domestic abuse or growing up in household there may have been neglect, parental mental health issues or difficult family relationships or other diagnosis of personality disorder, depression and anxiety, OCD or ASD.
I am passionate about helping people find their unique way out of their distress, and difficulty. I am known for my unfaltering hope, warmth, compassion, authenticity, creativity and dedication to my clients. I will provide you with a space to experience acceptance and whilst forming a deeper more meaningful understanding of yourself and how you are the way you are. Embracing all that is you, and to find a way to move forward in a way that works for you.
I offer clinical supervision or consultation to therapists working in NHS and private practice.

I work with

• Companies
• Groups
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

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 Arts Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Anorexia
• Bereavement
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Trauma