My Approach

The initial contact is usually by telephone. We will have a conversation and decide if you would like an assessment. The assessment is an opportunity to tell me about yourself. I ask some questions about your past and present life. We then decide how long we could potentially work together. Afterwards, you can decide if you’d like to work with me.

I also provide individual and group supervision for student counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and experienced therapists. I am an accredited member of the UKCP and a Registered Member of the BACP Association.

I work either face-to-face in Sheffield or online via Zoom.

My core theoretical approach is Group Analytic, Psychodynamic and Integrative Therapeutic. I believe that everyone would benefit from having their life story listened to at least once by a therapist. To have your experience of your life history understood by me. To have fifty minutes of uninterrupted time that is completely yours every week, not including holiday breaks, to talk about whatever you like, as I get to know you.

I can work Integratively, with EMDR, CBT, DBT, systemic thinking, crisis interventions, risk assessment, and harm reduction in addiction and process addictions to abstience. I supervise all the above except EMDR.

About Me

I am a Group Analyst, individual therapist and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor.

At certain points in everyone's lives, there comes a time when life, work, family, loss, or the unhelpful ways you cope with stress can become overwhelming.

One in four or five people have difficulty with their mental health throughout their life span, which could be stress, anxiety and/or depression, through to something more serious where other services are required.

I have accumulated a wealth of experience in my twenty-year career, whilst working in the substance misuse recovery field, which included working with people's underlying trauma. I have worked in therapeutic communities with young people who are Autistic and have been diagnosed with ADHD, and who are neurodivergent, and, more recently, for five years as a Highly Specialist Psychotherapist in the NHS. I have experience working with a range of relational and emotional difficulties, ranging from anxiety, depression, work-related stress, addiction and addictive behaviours, bereavement and loss through life transitions and stages of life.

Many people may have stopped talking about the pandemic. There are still those who have found the self-isolation and lockdowns a challenge, or I have had some people say that it levelled the playing field of life. The pandemic has impacted people's lives both financially and emotionally. You may want a space to discuss the past, the present, and the future.

I know it’s not easy to approach a psychotherapist for the first time. Speaking with a stranger can feel daunting initially, though once you get through those initial and understandable anxieties, you can be surprised by how helpful it can be to talk with someone you have no prior contact with.

I provide short-term and long-term individual and group psychotherapy, and individual and group clinical supervision for student counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists.

I work with

• Companies
• Families
• Groups
• 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

• Group Analyst

What I can help with

• Addiction
• ADHD
• Age-related Issues
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• EMDR
• Family
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Online Counselling
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Stress