I’ve spent twenty years working with people who want to change their lives, watching what actually works and what keeps people stuck.

I work with grief, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, addiction, trauma, and the patterns that show up across all of these. I’m trained in Humanistic counselling and Transactional Analysis psychotherapy, which helps us talk about what’s happening without it feeling clinical.

I pay attention to how people talk about themselves, the small ways we step out of our own stories. I’ll challenge you when it helps, but carefully. Shame shuts people down. Direct and kind seems to work better.

Want to turn a corner?

• Anxiety, depression or low mood?
• Negative thinking, rumination or intrusive thoughts?
• Despondence, emptiness or hopelessness
• Loneliness, isolation or relationship issues
• Problematic behaviours such as addiction or OCD?

If you’re experiencing any of these and you’ve found yourself here, I’m guessing it’s because you’re fed-up of being fed-up, and you want to make a change.

I get it.

Sometimes we need our darkest hour to give us that motivation to do something about it.

Is now your time?

I ran my own business for over thirty years. That work taught me about problem-solving, managing pressure, and keeping things functioning when they threatened to fall apart. But it also taught me about what I couldn’t fix with better systems or the right approach, the human problems that sit underneath the practical ones.

For the past twenty years, I’ve also been involved in community work supporting people through addiction and recovery. Not in any official capacity, just showing up consistently to the same rooms where people come to talk about the hardest parts of their lives. I’ve sat with people at their absolute lowest, watched them rebuild from nothing, and learned that change happens slowly and rarely in straight lines.

What that taught me is how to sit with someone else’s pain without trying to fix it immediately. How to support and listen between the lines to what’s actually being said rather than jumping to solutions.

I began working therapeutically with clients in 2024 when I spent a year in The Eaves low-cost counselling service. I am trained in Humanistic counselling and Transactional Analysis, approaches that help us understand what’s happening without it feeling cold or clinical. This does not need to mean anything to you as it is the relationship between us that counts.

I understand what it’s like to carry responsibility, to feel the weight of keeping everything together, to wonder if you’re doing it right. I also understand what it looks like when the wheels come off, and what it takes to put yourself back together afterwards.

I’m not interested in being the expert who has all the answers. I’m interested in sitting with people while they work out their own.