My approach:
I’m a Creative Psychotherapist, which just means I work with more than words alone. I'm more interested in the art of therapy than the science of it.
Shaping my practice through thousands of hours in the therapy room, I draw from Jungian and psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychodrama, Internal Family Systems (IFS), writing, movement, breath, imagination and the natural world. I trust the body as much as I trust language. I believe that walking, talking, scribbling, writing, playing and pausing all have a place in the process.
At the heart of my work is relationship: to self, to others, and to the stories we carry. I believe that our past and our present shape what we believe is possible for our future. Therapy is a space to loosen what feels stuck, rewrite what’s been inherited, and make room for new ways of being.
I support people facing all kinds of human mess and magic: anxiety, depression, addiction, relationships, parenthood, grief, change, transition, and the tangled knot of work and worth.
It can be hard graft, but meaningful.
A gentle hand and a kick up the arse when you need it.
The process
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Wherever you’re at, however you’re feeling, I’ve got you. Fill out the contact form and I’ll get back to you within 24 hours.
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We’ll meet for a first session via Zoom. My rate is £95. It’ll be a chance to talk through what’s going on for you, what you’d like from therapy, and to see if we’re a good fit.
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If it feels right, we’ll continue weekly or fortnightly. Together, we’ll dig into the stuff that matters, work towards your goals and continuously review the work.
A note on therapy
GOOD MENTAL HEALTH TAKES WORK.
A series of sleepless nights, growing pressures at work, being in touch with something painful from our childhood, anxieties about our health, relationships or our finances, periods of loneliness, experiences of discrimination and stigma, times of turbulent change, the death of someone we love, the weather, our political landscape, a hangover, an argument, a breakup, a hang-up, a heartbreak, a holding of an unspoken truth: these are just some of the things that can make us humans feel out of whack. Each will have an effect on the way we feel, think, behave, cope, and engage with the world around us.
Good mental health is not a given. Considering how often we face these challenges in our daily lives, it really serves us to work at our mental health. Therapy is one of the best places to do this. It is a place to train and flex our mental and emotional agility, a theatre to rehearse for real life, and a relationship that saves us from the burden of feeling alone in our messiness.
Therapists have an incredibly privileged insight into the paradoxes of human nature. They make weekly journeys to the greatest depths of human trauma: death, infertility, infidelity and depression, as well as the seemingly smaller moments of pain: a crush we might have on another that goes unnoticed, or feelings of jealousy and resentment towards a close friend.
Therapists acclimatise themselves to these things not just by training and reading books but by knowing their own nature and confronting the complicated, painful and embarrassing aspects of themselves that are collectively relegated into a murky puddle of shame within our culture.
Because of this, we can share anything and everything with them – and they will meet it with curiosity, compassion and care. A good therapist offering a combination of empathy and challenge, both a gentle hand and a kick up the arse, will always help us to return to a place of balance when we come up against it all.
This is possible because therapists are, unconditionally, on our side. They’ve got our back, and they are there to help us navigate the things we so often find hard: trusting others, coping with our emotions, communicating effectively, understanding ourselves, honouring our potential and feeling relatively authentic, confident and unashamed.
Getting started with therapy can feel like a lot of work,
but reach out let me take care of that with you.