About
The first thing to say is that I am a Counselling Psychologist, registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC). As a Counselling Psychologist, I am trained to a doctoral level to deliver researched and evidence-based therapy from a variety of therapeutic models. This allows me to tailor therapy to your individual needs.
As well as learning multiple psychotherapeutic approaches, my training was based on the importance of understanding an individual’s unique experience, and how this can be explored in a therapeutic relationship. Although there are many things that shape who we are as individuals, it is, I believe, our relationships, both with ourselves and others, that often influence us most profoundly. By developing our awareness of these relationships, we can develop valuable and compassionate self-understanding. I support people to use this understanding to find ways of improving the quality of their lives.
Services
As a trauma psychologist, I help people transform by helping them to heal wounds from the past. These wounds can often be held in the nervous system but not explicitly remembered. I work primarily with Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR (eye movement desensitisation & reprocessing therapy), and a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP). I tailor my therapeutic approach according to what each individual wants to work on, integrating different approaches as appropriate.