I am a registered Integrative therapist and Hypnotherapist. I’m passionate about the benefits therapy can bring to people’s sense of personal freedom, life-fulfilment, health and happiness.

I am highly motivated to remove the stigma around mental health issues, which adds unnecessary shame and distress to an already difficult experience. We are all works in progress, there is no perfect end-point to get to, and so I feel it’s important to share a part of my own story.

As far back as I can remember, I had struggled. I had taken on some disruptive and internal critical parts who insidiously shaped my thoughts and behaviour, and led me to feelings of insecurity, depression and anxiety at various times in adulthood, affecting all aspects of my life. After a mixed experience in CBT therapy, I booked a session with a Hypnotherapist.

The process of hypnotherapy was life-changing. It allowed me to separate from and meet subconscious parts of me that I had spent my life ignoring or pushing away. Through self-understanding and self-compassion I began to understand why these parts did what they did, and could offer healing to them from an authentically compassionate place, changing the way I saw and related to myself forever.

This revelatory sense of emotional freedom inspired me to do more therapeutic work on myself, alongside studying many different experiential approaches, deep-diving what makes them so effective on a neurological level, and naturally led me to train in Hypnotherapy and other therapeutic approaches.

With so many of us going through life needlessly suffering, I feel an inherent need to use my experience and knowledge to help others experience the profound and freeing effect therapy can offer.

I take a systems-based approach with mind and body, recognising that they are inextricably linked and intrinsic to one another, therefore much of the work I do with clients encourages curious and playful engagement with all aspects of  experience including sensations, feelings, subconscious symbols, metaphor, sounds and imagery.

• Putting Polyvagal Theory Into Practice With Deb Dana: Essential Strategies for Creating Safety and Connection With Trauma Clients, PESI, UK.
• Treating Trauma with Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-stepprocedures for healing trauma, anxiety, depression and more – PESI, UK.
• IFS Intuitive Drawing Foundation Workshop, Ruth Culver.
• Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Frank Anderson, MD – PESI, UK.
• The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing with Bessel van der Kolk MD PESI, UK.
• IFS for Couples training w/ Liz Phillips – IFSCA
• Anxiety, Depression & Shame Workshop with Mike Elkin & Ann Sinko – IFSCA
• Introduction to Shamanic counselling – City Lit.

Whilst we tend to look for reviews and testimonials for reassurance when looking for products or services and you may see testimonials on other therapist’s websites, I intentionally do not publish these for very important reasons.

As a member of the NSTT and a trainee member of the UKCP, I abide by their ethical codes which consider the use of client testimonials unethical. In order to comply with trading standards advertising requirements, any published testimonials need to be verifiable, which would breach the confidentiality of my clients. The protection of my client’s confidentiality is extremely important to me, which is why you will not find testimonials here.

If you would like to contact me to sound me out, please do get in touch for a free 15 minute phone or Zoom chat. Choosing the right therapist for you is crucial to get the best out of the process, so there is absolutely no obligation for us to work together after this meeting, and I heartily recommend you to shop around and take time to make a considered decision.