My Approach

Most clients are children and young people and my focus is on compassionate attunement and creative, play based interventions to help a child feel valued and understood. I firmly believe that family support work is crucial too. Often parents can feel alone, isolated, confused, helpless and scared in coping with their child's external behaviours and inner emotions. I offer empathic understanding, compassionate support and guidance. Play is used alongside a variety of evidence based techniques and psycho-education. Parents are supported to reflect and build on their strengths and implement change for their child.

I work with infants, children, young people, families and adults.

About Me

I work with infants, children, young people and their families. I've worked for 10 years for child and adolescent teams in a local NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust and I have a small private practice. I hold a degree in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling and am close to completing an MA in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (UKCP). My approach with children, young people and their families is influenced by a variety of theory including psychodynamic, neuroscience and playtherapy . Children tell their stories through play, so I use a variety of creative and arts based materials to help them express and make sense of their world, often through metaphor and symbols. Fundamentally my work is focussed on building a strong and secure therapeutic relationship in which trauma can be contained and processed and safety, change and growth can emerge and resilience can build.

I work with

• Couples
• Families
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

What I can help with

• Parents