My approach

I believe in therapy as a space for growth and healing, a space to tell your story, without judgement, and where you will be met with empathy and compassion. Therapy can also be challenging, and I may at times challenge you in certain areas of your thinking and behaviour that might be sources of difficulty in your life. Through doing this, I hope therapy might offer you the chance to deepen the understanding you have of yourself, become more connected to your feelings and in turn to become the expert on yourself.

It is my belief that from a position of greater self awareness and becoming more in touch with our emotional landscape, we can begin to make more informed decisions in our lives, create healthier connections to those we love, as well as bring ourselves into closer alignment with a life that feels purposeful and meaningful to us.

My qualifications

Level 4 qualification in integrative psychotherapy & counselling from the London Foundation in Psychotherapy and counselling

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship therapy from the London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy, awarded Distinction at level 7 through Middlesex University, London

Registered member of COSRT

Ongoing commitment to professional development in the form of attending seminars, conferences, reading and reflective group dialogue.

My position as a therapist is operating in the understanding that we are all human, liable to making mistakes, hurting others and ourselves, feeling pain and experiencing suffering. Conversely, as humans we are creators of joy and kindness, empathy and love; and my method of working looks to explore the array of these elements of life that you uniquely experience.

I give credence to the wisdom of both the mind and body and how each combine to create you and the way you experience the world. I inform my practice by combining knowledge from discoveries in contemporary neuroscience which are interwoven on a holistic level.

A bit about me

As a queer person, I have personal lived experience of queer and kink community culture and sex and relationship diversity, which inform my practice as a therapist. My practice upholds the ethics and principles of the GSRD model (gender, sex and relationship diversity), informing an openness to ways of being in gender, sex and relationships.

I am personally committed to my own ongoing development as a human being and the understanding I have of myself, in the hope of bettering the service to my clients. I take part in ongoing professional development in the form of CPD training, supervision, peer supervision, reading, personal therapy both group and individual.

Other personal interests of mine span into philosophy, the arts, music and dance, having formerly worked in the creative industries, managing large and diverse collectives of people. I have experience of working sensitively to cultural, religious, ethnic and physical intersections of a persons identity. I bring my experience of arts and diversity in to my practice as a therapist.