My Work with Clients

 This work focuses on how you come to understand and experience yourself over time.  We might explore your self-esteem, self-criticisms, and sense of identity, as well as your relationship with your body and emotions. Together, we can look at the experiences that have shaped you, including early relationships and patterns that still show up today, allowing you to understand yourself more clearly.

 This work focuses on how you relate to others - that’s people in your family, friendships, and romantic relationships. It may involve exploring family dynamics, attachment patterns, boundaries, and communication, as well as how you experience closeness, dependence, and conflict. We will work on the patterns that tend to repeat, and how these shape the way you connect with others, so that relating to others can start to feel steadier, more boundaried and less confusing. 

 Substance use and addictive behaviours are understood as ways of coping with distress, emotional pain, or unmet needs. Rather than focusing only on stopping these behaviours, the work looks at what they offer, when they show up, and what makes them hard to let go of. This includes exploring triggers, emotional patterns, and the situations in which use feels most necessary, while gradually developing other ways of coping that don’t come at the same cost. 

 I work with people who have experienced trauma, including emotional, physical, & sexual abuse, as well as loss and bereavement. These experiences can have a lasting impact on how you feel within yourself, in your body, and in the world around you. The work involves making sense of what you’ve been through, how it continues to affect you, and finding ways to live alongside it without it feeling as overwhelming or all-consuming.  The focus is on building a sense of safety and working at a pace that does not feel re-traumatising. 

 This area of work focuses on patterns such as  intrusive thoughts, compulsions, and difficulties managing impulses or intense emotional reactions. These experiences can feel overwhelming, confusing, or hard to control. Therapy explores how these patterns developed and what they protect against, helping clients build greater awareness and flexibility in their responses to distressing thoughts or urges. I have experience working with impulse-control difficulties in a prison setting, which informs a grounded and non-judgemental approach to this type of work. 

 I offer an affirming space for neurodivergent clients and those with diverse gender identities, sexualities, and relationship experiences. We will explore how our experience is shaped not just internally, but by the social and relational worlds we move through, including the impact of systems, culture, and other people’s assumptions of how we experience ourselves & our relationships. It involves making sense of difference in a way that isn’t pathologising, as well as working with the impact of stigma, marginalisation, or not feeling fully understood. The focus is on helping you relate to yourself on your own terms, while finding ways of navigating the world that feel more sustainable and less at odds with who you are.