My Approach

My clients are children and young people and my focus is on compassionate attunement and creative, play based interventions to help a child feel valued, understood and attended to. I firmly believe that family support work is crucial too. Often parents can feel alone, isolated, confused, helpless and scared in coping with their children's external behaviours. I offer empathic understanding, compassionate support and guidance I use a variety of evidence based techniques and psychoeducation to help parents feel safer to reflect and to 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'm employed in a local NHS Mental Health Foundation Trust and have a small private practice. I hold a degree in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling and am currently undertaking an MA in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (UKCP). My approach is Integrative and influenced by a variety of theory including psychodynamic, neuroscience and playtherapy . Children tell their stories through play and so I use a variety of creative and arts based materials to help them 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 safety, change and growth can emerge.

I work with

• 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