My Approach

I work with young people to help them explore and make sense of their world, the events in their lives, and their feelings and responses to these. The space to reflect may mean the young person is able to work out their own solutions. I mostly work face to face, offering short- or long-term work in SW London.

I believe that although young people occasionally use words to tell those around them how they are feeling, often they use behaviours instead. They may need help and support to find the words for the feelings at the root of their actions.

I work with various art mediums for therapeutic conversation: play, art, puppets, sand tray, whatever the young person may be drawn to. Using the arts can enable someone to access painful feelings when perhaps words are not known, or not big enough, for the feelings.

About Me

I completed a postgraduate diploma in integrative psychotherapeutic child counselling at the Institute for Arts in Education and Therapy. I have worked as school counsellor in primary and secondary level education and as a counsellor in a youth counselling charity.

Creativity is an important part of my life, whether with fabric, yarn or in my garden. I am on a gardening journey as I learn from season to season and year to year, but I particularly enjoy finding the right place for a plant in the garden and watching it thrive.

I work with

• Children and young people

Types of Therapies Offered

• Child Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

What I can help with

• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Divorce
• Eating Disorders
• Family
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Separation
• Stress
• Trauma