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You have known for a while that something isn't right, and you can feel that in your body and your heart. You feel exhausted and never rested, anxious and on edge, or flat and no longer enjoying yourself. 

You might be struggling with whether your relationship or your job is a good fit for you right now. You might be watching your gorgeous child struggle, or pull away from you, and it hurts. 

You are looking for someone who can focus solely on you and help you get to a place where you feel more like yourself again. Perhaps you've spent a long time being there for everyone else, keeping things together, or trying to manage on your own. Therapy can be a place where, for a while, you don't have to do that.

You deserve support that is focused on you. This is where individual therapy can help.

Individual counselling can look quite different depending on whether I’m supporting a child, teenager or adult. What they have in common is that sessions are relaxed, collaborative and centred around your safety and comfort.

With children, we might play games, draw, make things or use arts and crafts. Play can be a natural way for children to express feelings and experiences that can be difficult to put into words.

With teenagers, we might chat while we draw, listen to music, play a game or simply talk. There doesn't need to be pressure to sit face-to-face and talk about everything. We can find ways of working that feel comfortable and natural.

With adults, sessions will often involve talking and reflecting, but there is no one way therapy has to look. We might explore emotions, relationships, past experiences or patterns that are leaving you feeling stuck. Sometimes, creative approaches can also help when words don't quite capture what you're experiencing.

People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons. You might be struggling with anxiety, low mood, stress, grief, self-esteem, relationships or a difficult life change. You might feel overwhelmed or stuck, or simply have a sense that you want to understand yourself a little better.

You don't need to know exactly what's wrong, or what you're supposed to say when you walk through the door. We can start with where you are and work it out together.

You love each other but you're struggling to reach each other. You’ve had the same argument more times than you can count.

One of you tries to talk about what’s wrong, while the other shuts down or walks away. A small disagreement quickly becomes something much bigger. You both feel unheard, misunderstood, and frustrated, and before long you’re arguing about the way you argue rather than what started it in the first place. You want to feel close again, but instead you’re caught in a cycle that leaves you both hurt and exhausted. You’re not necessarily looking for someone to tell you who is right. You want to understand what is happening between you and find a way to change it. 

Relationships can become painful when the same patterns keep repeating. You reach for connection and feel rejected. Your partner asks for space and you experience it as abandonment. You become defensive because you feel criticised. They withdraw because they feel overwhelmed. The more one of you pursues, the more the other pulls away. Over time, these patterns can create resentment, loneliness and emotional distance. You can start to feel like you’re living beside each other rather than with each other. You might stop talking about the things that matter because you know where the conversation will end. You might avoid difficult conversations altogether, carefully choosing your words or keeping your feelings to yourself to prevent another fight.

This is where couples counselling can help.

I provide a safe, supportive space where both of you can be heard without judgement or blame. Together, we’ll explore the patterns that keep you stuck, understand what is happening beneath the conflict, and develop healthier ways of communicating and responding to each other.

I can support you through having the same fight on repeat, the distance between you, difficulties with intimacy, loss of trust, infidelity, parenting and life transitions. You don’t need to be in crisis to seek support. Couples counselling can also help you strengthen your relationship and deepen your connection.

My role isn’t to take sides or decide who is right. It’s to help you understand each other differently, repair what has been hurt and create a relationship that feels safer, more connected and more satisfying for both of you.

Things at home feel harder than they should. You love your family, but things have become too difficult. Conversations turn into arguments. Everyone feels frustrated, unheard or misunderstood. Your children are turning away from you and it hurts your heart. Parenting disagreements with your partner, changes in the family, separation, loss, illness or other pressures have left everyone feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. You feel as though everything you are trying is either not helping or making things worse. You want things to feel different, but you’re not sure how to get there.

This is where family therapy can help.

I provide a safe and supportive space where each family member can be heard and understood. My role is not to find someone to blame, but to help you understand what is happening within your family and the patterns that are keeping you stuck.

Together, we can work on communication, stop having the same old arguments, bring you closer together, practice having hard conversations, and develop healthier ways of responding to one another. I’ll help you understand your child's experience (whether your child is 5, 15, or 35) while also supporting parents and other family members to feel more confident and connected. If you are an adult bringing your family to therapy, I will make sure that there is room for each person to breathe, and help unpick longstanding patterns that have made it hard to feel connected. 

Family therapy is flexible and tailored to your family. Sessions may include everyone together, or different family members at different times, depending on what will be most helpful. You don’t need to have everything figured out before you reach out.

If your family is feeling stuck, disconnected or overwhelmed, I can help you find a way forward together.

You know the experience is in the past, but your mind and body haven’t quite caught up. You may find yourself replaying what happened, avoiding people, places, smells, sounds and other reminders of what happened, feeling constantly on edge, or reacting more strongly than you want to. Certain places, situations, conversations or relationships can bring the feelings back without warning. You may understand logically that you are safe now, yet still feel overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected or stuck.

You want to move forward, but knowing you should be over something doesn’t make it feel that way.

This is where EMDR therapy can help.

I provide a safe, supportive space to help you process experiences that continue to affect you in the present. EMDR can support people working through trauma, distressing experiences, anxiety, grief, relationship experiences and other events that have left a lasting emotional impact.

Rather than asking you to repeatedly retell everything that has happened, EMDR helps your brain process difficult memories in a way that can reduce their emotional intensity and the hold they have over you.

Together, we’ll work at a pace that feels safe and manageable. I’ll support you to understand your responses, build a greater sense of safety and develop the resources you need as we work through what you have experienced.

You don’t have to erase what happened. The goal is to help it become something that happened to you, rather than something that continues to happen to you.

If you’re tired of feeling stuck in the past and ready to feel more present, settled and free, EMDR therapy can help you begin to move forward.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapy designed to alleviate distress from traumatic memories and PTSD. It uses bilateral stimulation—typically guided eye movements—while recalling traumatic events, helping the brain reprocess memories, reducing their emotional charge. It is often faster than traditional therapy.

The EMDR Institute explains EMDR in the following way: 

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. 

Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. 

When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.

EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.

Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

A space to think about the work, and the person doing it. 

The work you do matters, but it can also be complex, demanding and emotionally consuming. You carry the stories of the people you work with, make decisions in situations where there isn’t always a clear answer, and navigate complexity, risk, boundaries and ethical challenges. Sometimes you need somewhere to step back, think things through and make sense of what is happening without judgement.

This is where supervision can help.

I offer professional supervision for social workers and family therapists at all stages of their careers. I provide a supportive, reflective and collaborative space where you can bring complex cases, uncertainty, questions and challenges, as well as the things that are going well.

Together, we can explore your clinical thinking, case formulation, relationships with clients, professional boundaries and ethical decision-making. We can also make space for the emotional impact of the work — including the moments that stay with you long after a session has finished.

My approach to supervision is grounded in curiosity, thoughtful reflection and collaboration. I’m not there to have all the answers. I’ll work alongside you to deepen your thinking, strengthen your confidence and reconnect you with your professional values.

Supervision is tailored to your experience, professional context, theoretical orientation and learning goals. It is also a place to consider your own wellbeing, sustainability and the kind of practitioner you want to be.

Whether you’re early in your career or highly experienced, supervision can give you the space to pause, reflect and grow — so you can return to your work with greater clarity, confidence and integrity.