Opening up to someone new can feel daunting, but many people find it freeing to speak with a trained, impartial professional who can help them make sense of their thoughts and emotions. In our work together, you’ll set the pace and choose what you want to explore. You may wish to explore specific issues such as depression, anxiety, self-harm, OCD, and addictions. You may need some support in navigating a life transition or situation, which can bring up a variety of emotional responses around loss, beliefs and identity.  You may want to look at broader patterns in your life, gain clarity, and understand yourself better.

Together, we can find ways for you to live the life you want to be living. We can identify the emotional obstacles and difficulties that affect you and look at how things could be different for you. This might involve discovering what you actually want, rather than what you think you should want from life or relationships. This could help you reconnect with aspects of yourself that have been put aside.

My aim is to offer a warm and open-minded space where you can focus fully on yourself. I adapt my approach from session to session — sometimes more gently supportive, sometimes more challenging, depending on what feels most useful.

Humanistic and Integrative Counselling is a relationship in which the counsellor facilitates an environment for the client to feel empowered, develop their own resilience, and generally feel more confident. To offer you the best possible support, and to focus on your individual needs, it draws from a range of counselling approaches and techniques.

Counselling can be particularly helpful for processing painful feelings and events, and to work towards positive change in your life. It can be a relief to talk to a professional who is separate from the rest of your life, and to put aside a time each week in which you can focus on yourself and your own needs. You can then gain some insights into where you are in your life, who you are or who you want to be, and which direction to go in.

Sometimes one of the most challenging steps is to seek help in the first place. Once you have started the therapy process, it becomes easier to explore difficult thoughts and feelings in a productive way. Talking things through can help your mind feel less cluttered, and makes decision-making more straightforward.