My Approach

Mental and emotional distress is a completely understandable response to difficult life events and therapy is a safe and confidential space, in which to explore your experiences, so that you can make sense of how life has been for you and how you might want to live going forwards.

Together, we can discover how things are for you, what you want to change or leave behind, who you truthfully are and who you long to become. By accompanying you as you unravel, what can sometimes feel like a big ball of knots, we can nourish and cultivate your own unique self-awareness and deeply innate wisdom, in order for you to understand yourself more lovingly.

We might do this by talking and focusing on your awareness of your breathing rhythms and physical sensations. Or we might safely explore, by writing or drawing something that feels important to you or through imagining or chair work or family constellations and sand tray. Or, we might take a walk together, connecting to nature as a safe place - all co-created, of-the-moment potentials, in service to you welcoming home, understanding and giving worth to, your very own most singular and quite beautiful, individual soul.

The sessions that I offer are one-off, short or long term, both in person and online.

My practice rooms are based at The Shaw Therapy Center, in Oldham, OL2 8PH and you can see what they're like and whether you'd feel comfortable there, here: https://shawtherapycentre.co.uk/.

In the meantime, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy [BACP], describes what some Gestalt therapy sessions can be like: https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/gestalt/

About Me

I'm informed by deep listening, ecotherapy and the imaginal and I offer a resolutely safe and grounded therapeutic space, in which to creatively explore and welcome the mysteries of who you are as a unique human being, alive at this particular time on earth.

Whilst working in the NHS, I trained academically and experientially to masters level, at Manchester Gestalt Center and Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute. I engage in regular supervision and therapy, both of which are requirements of my profession and I hold an Enhanced DBS.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Gestalt Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Stress
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling