My Approach

I am influenced by my training in Transactional Analysis (TA) and by personal and professional lived experience. My fascination with what connects us and what keeps us apart is due, in part, to my experience of growing up different and a professional lifetime of listening to and retelling other people’s stories through the medium of television. What links these experiences to how I practice is a belief that when we understand the wholeness of human experience, when we feel whole and complete, we can heal, grow and transform.

TA as a model of psychotherapy integrates ideas from psychoanalysis, behaviourism, and humanism. This integration allows me to tailor my approach to meet the unique needs and experience of each client.

My practice
I am based in Milton Keynes where I offer face to face and online (Zoom) short-term and open-ended counselling and psychotherapy. Sessions are weekly, usually at the same time each week. The routine and regularity of weekly sessions gives structure and focus to the process of therapy within a safe and ethical framework of good practice.

I see therapy as offering space and time to explore, question, reflect and be curious. It can be somewhere to go to make sense of the stories of our lives. The ones we tell each other and those we tell ourselves. My intention is to work with you, my client. To listen to you fully with empathy, compassion and understanding. To collaborate with you within a relationship of mutual trust and respect as you begin to reframe and process your experience and find meaning in it. To encourage you as your awareness grows and you find new, healthier ways to live your life fully, freely and with more meaningful connections.

Experience, Qualifications & Experience:
I work with a wide range of emotional and relational issues, have experience of both NHS and charitable settings and a particular interest in questions of identity. How do we experience sameness and difference; our own and each other’s? How does our sense of who we are impact our relationships; those we have with others and the relationship we have with ourselves? How do we navigate towards finding space to be differently different together?...

MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Distinction), Middlesex University
Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA)
Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Level 7), Metanoia Institute
Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Level 6), Metanoia Institute

About Me

I am an experienced psychotherapist offering counselling and psychotherapy to individuals and groups within an inclusive practice which supports and affirms cultural and identity diversity. A safe, non-judgemental, confidential place for you to "come and be as you are", to explore whatever is troubling you and prompted you to consider therapy.

I believe everyone has value and worth and deserves to be treated equally and fairly with dignity and respect. That’s why the therapy I offer is grounded in “OKness” achieved through a relationship of empathic, trusting and respectful connection. In my experience to feel connected to another person, perhaps for the very first time, is to feel seen, heard and understood. Is a chance to (re)connect to a more authentic self and a freer way of living and being.

I work with

• Groups
• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Age-related Issues
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Divorce
• Employment Difficulties
• Family
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Race Issues
• Separation
• Stress