Counselling
“There is no perfection, only life.”
Milan Kundera
Counselling
Life can sometimes feel overwhelming, and anxiety can make everyday challenges seem insurmountable, affecting your relationships, work, sleep, or overall wellbeing.
Whether you're struggling with persistent worry, stress, overwhelm, panic, or a sense of feeling disconnected from yourself or others, anxiety counselling and therapy can provide a safe and valuable opportunity to explore what you're experiencing and develop healthier ways of coping, allowing you to live with greater calm.
You may feel anxious, isolated, or alone, even when surrounded by supportive people. Counselling can help you better understand your thoughts, emotions, and behaviour patterns, build self-compassion and self-acceptance, and create meaningful, lasting change.
I offer a warm, non-judgmental approach, listening with curiosity and compassion. Together, we can explore the challenges you're facing, helping you develop greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, confidence, and tools to manage anxiety more effectively.
I work with clients experiencing:
-
anxiety and excessive worry
-
stress, overwhelm and burnout
-
low self esteem
-
'sandwich generation': caring for children and ageing parents
-
PTSD and trauma
-
sexual and domestic abuse
-
menopause and midlife challenges
-
depression
-
relationships.
If you're experiencing challenges with your wellbeing, relationships, or daily life, therapy can help you find greater clarity, confidence, and balance.
Bereavement and illness
Through my work with patients and relatives at my local hospice, I have supported bereaved clients who are living with complex emotions of fear, grief and loss — and individuals with life-limiting illness who are navigating challenges like relationship and lifestyle changes, and difficult feelings about diagnosis and treatment.
Everyone’s experience is unique — there is no single “normal” way to cope with grief, bereavement, loss or a life-changing diagnosis. I offer a safe and compassionate space where you can express the complex and often overwhelming thoughts and feelings that may arise, including sadness, anger, denial, fear, guilt, and regret.
I aim to validate your experience and support you to find a way to accept and live with your new reality.
ADHD and Autism
I specialise in providing neuroaffirmative counselling for neurodivergent adults and young people.
Drawing on many years of personal and professional experience of neurodivergence, I understand how overwhelming, confusing and even hostile the world can feel when you don’t fit the 'neurotypical norm'. Masking, feeling as though you’re getting it wrong, or trying to fit in can be emotionally and physically exhausting.
I also recognise that it’s easy for others to make assumptions about what being neurodivergent 'should' look like, when in reality each person’s experience is unique and valid.
My therapeutic approach avoids 'one size fits all' frameworks. Instead, I remain open, flexible and collaborative, working with you to explore alternative ways of supporting your needs. This may include taking short breaks during sessions, using creative or sensory-based tools, or finding ways to explore emotions that don’t rely on talking in detail before you feel ready.
Ultimately, I will work alongside you to understand your personal experience, support deeper self-acceptance, and help you to build confidence, empowerment, and comfort in navigating the world as your authentic self.