Developing insight, self-knowledge and self-compassion can provide a greater sense of freedom! I welcome clients looking to explore identity, belonging, relationships, intimacy, trauma, body image, self-worth, mental health or neurodivergence. I bring both professional training and lived experience into my work, with warmth, curiosity, and humour, offering a queer-affirming, inclusive space.
I use a relational approach to slow things down, explore what’s underneath and support you to make changes that feel meaningful and lasting. Together, we can begin to identify unhelpful patterns, understand where they come from, and work towards greater self-awareness to support informed choices. My ultimate aim is to help you gain autonomy over your life by recovering three vital human capacities: the ability to be spontaneous, aware and intimate with oneself and others.
My approach is grounded in anti-oppressive practice, with an awareness of how class, race, culture, gender, sexuality and relationship diversity shape experience. Alongside this, I draw on the social model of disability, which understands disability as arising from barriers in society, rather than from an individual’s impairment or condition. I also bring in a sense of our relationship to land and the more-than-human world, holding therapy as part of a wider ecology of care.
Alongside my counselling work, I design and deliver recovery-focused psychoeducational courses and suicide prevention programmes within the NHS, including in acute ward settings and in the community. These structured courses support people to better understand their mental health and develop practical self-management strategies. I also co-facilitate mental health support groups for displaced people with Refugee Radio, a local charity.
My experience spans trauma-informed work across the NHS and voluntary sector, supporting people with complex and intersecting needs. I am also a Trustee for a Sussex-based music-making mental health charity and have a strong interest in creative approaches to recovery and discovery, including music, dance and movement, writing, poetry, art, and theatre.
My core training in Transactional Analysis offers a useful framework for understanding patterns in thinking, feeling, and relating. I also draw on additional approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems, Family Constellations, grief and mourning practices, and nature-based therapy and ecopsychology. My academic background includes an MSc in Psychology (in progress), a Diploma in Counselling, an MA in International Development and a BA in Public Communications and Media Arts. I am registered with UKATA and the NCPS.