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Please find information available below about the services I offer to help you move towards a brighter tomorrow, today.

Individual therapy offers a supportive and confidential space for children, teenagers, and adults to explore what’s happening in their inner and outer worlds. 

People come to individual therapy for many reasons — to make sense of difficult emotions, navigate life transitions, heal from past experiences, or simply to better understand themselves.


For children and teenagers, therapy can help with challenges such as anxiety, low mood, emotional regulation, behavioural concerns, school-related stress, friendship difficulties, family changes, or feeling misunderstood. Sessions are adapted to be age-appropriate and may include conversation, creative expression, or play-based approaches to help young people communicate and feel safe.


For adults, individual therapy can support concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, self-esteem, identity questions, relationship patterns, or feeling stuck or overwhelmed. Some people come with a specific issue they want to work on, while others value having a regular space to reflect, process experiences, and develop greater clarity and resilience.


The therapeutic relationship is collaborative and paced to suit you. Whether you’re seeking practical support for a particular difficulty or a deeper exploration of your experiences, individual therapy can offer a place to feel heard, understood, and supported as you move toward meaningful change.


Couples counselling offers a supportive space for partners to explore their relationship, improve communication, and better understand one another. People seek couples counselling for many reasons — during times of conflict or disconnection, when navigating change or stress, or simply to strengthen their relationship and deepen emotional closeness.


Some couples come to therapy feeling stuck in recurring arguments, struggling to communicate, or feeling distant or misunderstood. Others may be working through issues such as trust, intimacy, the impact of parenting, work or financial stress, health challenges, infidelity, or major life transitions. Couples counselling can also be helpful for partners who want to be more intentional about their relationship, even if there is no single “problem” to fix.


Therapy provides a space where each partner’s perspective can be heard and respected. The focus is on understanding patterns within the relationship, developing healthier ways of communicating, and fostering empathy, connection, and emotional safety. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit the needs of the couple, recognising that each relationship is unique.


Whether you are feeling overwhelmed by challenges or wanting to invest in your relationship’s growth, couples counselling can support you to navigate difficulties together and move toward a more connected and satisfying relationship.


Family therapy provides a supportive space for families to explore challenges together, strengthen relationships, and improve communication. Families seek therapy for many reasons — during times of conflict or stress, when supporting a child or teenager, or when navigating change within the family system.


Family therapy can be helpful for concerns such as ongoing conflict, parenting challenges, behavioural or emotional difficulties in children or adolescents, breakdowns in communication, or the impact of major life events like separation, blending families, illness, loss, or relocation. It can also support families who feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward together.


Sessions focus on understanding each family member’s experience and the patterns that influence how the family interacts. Therapy offers a space where everyone’s voice can be heard, while working toward greater empathy, cooperation, and emotional safety within the family. Depending on the needs of the family, sessions may involve all family members together or different combinations over time.


Family therapy is collaborative and flexible, recognising that every family is unique. Whether your family is facing a specific difficulty or simply seeking support to strengthen relationships and navigate challenges more effectively, family therapy can help foster understanding, resilience, and positive change.


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.


I offer professional supervision for social workers and family therapists seeking a supportive, reflective, and collaborative space to think about their work. Supervision provides an opportunity to explore clinical practice, ethical considerations, professional development, and the emotional impact of therapeutic work in a way that feels contained and respectful.


Supervision can support practitioners at different stages of their careers — from students and early-career clinicians to experienced therapists wanting space to deepen their practice, reflect on complex cases, or reconnect with their professional values. Common areas of focus include case formulation, working with complexity and risk, navigating professional boundaries, managing uncertainty, and attending to the relational and emotional aspects of the work.


My approach to supervision is grounded in curiosity, reflection, and collaboration. I aim to create a space where supervisees feel safe to bring both their questions and their strengths, and where learning is supported through thoughtful dialogue rather than judgement. Supervision is tailored to your professional context, theoretical orientation, and learning goals, and may include attention to self-care, sustainability, and preventing burnout.


Whether you are seeking regular supervision, support during a particular professional challenge, or space to reflect and grow as a practitioner, supervision can offer an opportunity to strengthen confidence, clarity, and integrity in your work.


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