How I can help
Individual Counselling for Adults
Individual counselling for adults provides a safe, confidential space to explore personal challenges, emotions, and life changes with professional support.
It helps individuals build coping strategies, improve wellbeing, and work towards positive, lasting change.
Child & Adolescent Counselling
Child & Adolescent Counselling supports young people in understanding their emotions, behaviour, and challenges in a safe and supportive environment.
It helps children and teenagers build confidence, resilience, and healthy coping skills for everyday life.
Therapy for Adopted, SGO & Kinship Children
Therapy for adopted children and children in kinship care provides a nurturing space to explore emotions, identity, attachment, and life experiences connected to their story.
It helps children build trust, strengthen emotional wellbeing, and develop healthy relationships and coping skills.
Working with family - Therapeutic Parenting Support
Therapeutic Parenting Support helps families understand and respond to children’s emotional and behavioural needs with empathy and connection.
It provides parents and carers with practical strategies to strengthen relationships, build trust, and create a secure home environment.
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
Clinical Supervision
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a relationship-based therapy that helps children and caregivers strengthen attachment, trust, and emotional connection.
Using safety, empathy, and attuned communication, DDP supports healing from trauma, loss, and early relational difficulties.
Clinical Supervision
Clinical Supervision
Counselling supervision provides a reflective and supportive space for therapists to explore their clinical work, professional development, and wellbeing.
It promotes ethical practice, enhances therapeutic skills, and helps ensure safe and effective support for clients.
Individual Counselling for Adults
Individual Counselling for Adults
Counselling provides a safe, supportive, and confidential space to explore thoughts, feelings, and experiences. I offer the opportunity to talk openly, without judgement, and to feel heard, understood, and supported. At different times in life, a person may experience emotional difficulties, challenges in relationships, feelings of anxiety, sadness, overwhelm, or struggles connected to life events and past experiences. I can help people to better understand themselves, process emotions, and develop healthier ways of coping.
What can I help with?
- Low mood or depression
- Stress or Anxiety
- Bereavement & Loss
- Past trauma
- Inner child work
- Relationship difficulties
- Separation or Divorce
- Work difficulties
- Identity and belonging
I am trained in a range of therapeutic approaches and tailor my work to meet your individual needs and circumstances. This often involves integrating different methods, combining practical, solution-focused approaches such as CBT with the deeper reflective work of person-centred and psychodynamic therapy.
What to expect...
The therapeutic process begins with an initial free 15 minute consultation to find out if we connect and you feel comfortable. From there, we will arrange an assessment, helping to build a full understanding of your experiences, needs, and current difficulties and then sessions will begin.
Sessions last 1 hour and cost £50*.
*A reduced rate is available for students and those on lower incomes.
Child & Adolescent Counselling
Child & Adolescent Counselling
Who do I work with?
I provide therapy for children, adolescents, and young people aged 6–18, as well as therapeutic guidance and psychoeducation for parents, caregivers, and families.
I have experience supporting children and young people who may have experienced trauma, bereavement, loss, or difficulties linked to disrupted attachment relationships.
How can therapy help?
I support children and young people with a variety of emotional, behavioural, and relational challenges, including:
- Anxiety and worries
- Separation anxiety
- Difficulties within school
- Bullying
- Bereavement and grief
- Illness and health-related concerns
- Trauma
- Family breakdowns or changes
- OCD-related behaviours
- Low confidence and self-esteem
- Identity and self-development
What will therapy look like for your child?
Every child and young person is unique, so my therapeutic approach is always adapted to their age, stage of development, and individual needs.
Children do not always have the words to explain how they are feeling. Because of this, I use a range of creative and play-based therapeutic approaches to help children safely express, explore, and make sense of their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. This may include the use of creative materials, storytelling, imagination, play, and therapeutic activities designed to support emotional understanding and communication.
What to expect...
The therapeutic process begins with an initial consultation and assessment, helping to build a full understanding of your child’s experiences, needs, and current difficulties. Following this, a tailored therapeutic plan will be discussed and agreed together with both the child and their parent(s) or caregiver(s).
Some children and young people benefit from individual sessions where they have a dedicated space to explore their thoughts and feelings independently. Others may find it helpful to work alongside a parent or family member through dyadic or family-based therapy. The approach used will always be guided by the child’s age, developmental stage, emotional needs, and the difficulties being presented.
Where challenges relate to attachment, family relationships, or communication, involving both parent(s) and child within the therapeutic process can provide a supportive space to strengthen understanding, connection, and emotional safety. This can be particularly valuable for younger children or for those who have experienced trauma or disruptions in attachment relationships.
Therapy may be short-term and focused on a particular concern, or longer-term where more complex or ongoing difficulties require deeper therapeutic support and exploration.
Sessions cost £50 per hour.
Therapy for Adopted, SGO & Kinship Children
Therapy for Adopted, SGO & Kinship Children
Every child deserves to feel safe, valued, and understood. For adopted, looked after, and kinship children, early experiences of loss, separation, neglect, trauma, or instability can have a lasting impact on their emotional wellbeing, relationships, behaviour, and development.
I offer psychological therapy for children and young people who have experienced these challenges, providing a safe, nurturing, and supportive space where they can begin to make sense of their stories and develop the skills they need to thrive.
Therapies/services offered include:
- Individual Psychotherapy
- Trauma informed therapy
- Attachment focussed therapy
- Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP)
- Psychoeducation
Children often achieve the best outcomes when the adults around them feel supported too. I work collaboratively with adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers, and other key adults to help them better understand the impact of trauma and attachment difficulties (see Therapeutic Parenting Support and DDP for further information).
I currently work with local authorities, regional adoption agencies and charities. If you would like further information, please get in touch.
Working with Family
Working with Family - Therapeutic Parenting Support
I understand that parenting a child who has experienced trauma, loss, or early adversity can feel emotionally overwhelming and, at times, isolating. My one-to-one therapeutic parenting support sessions are designed to help you better understand your child’s emotional needs, strengthen connection, and develop strategies that support healing, safety, and secure attachment. Whether you are an adoptive parent, foster carer, kinship carer, or biological parent wanting to better understand your child’s inner world, these sessions provide a compassionate and non-judgemental space to reflect on the challenges you may be facing and explore ways to move forward with greater confidence and understanding.
What support I can offer...
- Individualised support tailored to the needs of your child and family
- Practical strategies informed by therapeutic parenting, attachment theory, and the P.A.C.E. approach
- Support with emotional co-regulation, connection, and trust-building
- Help understanding challenging behaviour as communication rather than defiance
- Guidance around boundaries, self-care, and maintaining emotional resilience as a parent or carer
- Opportunities to reflect on family strengths, patterns, and relationships
- Support in improving communication, problem-solving, and creating stronger family connections
Sessions can be offered either in person or online, depending on what feels most accessible and supportive for you and your family.
DDP
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused therapeutic approach that draws upon attachment theory, developmental trauma, child development, and our understanding of the neurobiology of trauma, caregiving, and relationships.
DDP places strong importance on the involvement of parents and caregivers throughout the therapeutic process. Parent sessions take place before direct work begins with the child, and parents or caregivers remain an important part of the ongoing therapeutic work and are often involved within sessions.
Therapeutic interactions within our sessions — both verbal and non-verbal — are guided by the principles of PACE: Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy. These principles help to create a safe, connected, and trusting environment in which children and families can explore experiences, strengthen relationships, and support emotional healing.
I am trained in both Level 1 and Level 2 Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP).
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Supervision
Supervision
Supervision provides an important reflective space for practitioners to regularly “check in” with a more experienced professional. It supports counsellors and therapists in remaining grounded, maintaining safe and ethical boundaries, developing both theoretical understanding and practical skills, and prioritising self-care to help prevent burnout.
I believe that effective supervision is a fundamental part of providing safe, ethical, and competent therapeutic work and I will support you to achieve this. During the initial session, we will discuss and agree on the most appropriate model of supervision to support both you and your client work. We all have individualised styles of working and finding the right connection with your supervisor will be the foundation of your therapy work and professional growth.
Fee: £40 per hour*
*reduced rates for self-funding students
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