My Approach

My approach is grounded in systemic and attachment-informed thinking. This means I am interested not only in the difficulties that bring you to therapy, but also in your relationships, experiences, history and the wider circumstances of your life.

Rather than assuming that the problem sits within one person, we can be curious together about the patterns and relationships that may have developed over time, what has helped those patterns to continue, and where opportunities for change might exist.

Therapy with me is collaborative. I won't assume that I am the expert on your life or tell you how you should live it. Instead, I bring my therapeutic knowledge and experience alongside your knowledge of yourself, your relationships and the people who matter to you. I welcome feedback about what feels helpful and what doesn't.

I aim to create a space where people feel comfortable, heard and able to talk without judgement. Whether I am working with an individual, couple or family, I pay attention to the different relationships, perspectives and experiences that may be important. Where more than one person attends therapy, I make space for different points of view so that our work doesn't become about deciding who is right or wrong.

I am interested in strengths as well as difficulties. Even when people feel stuck, there are often resources, relationships, values and hopes that can become obscured by the problem. Sometimes, when hope feels difficult to find, part of my role is to hold that hope until you are able to hold it for yourself.

Our work may involve talking together, asking questions that invite different ways of thinking, exploring relationship patterns or family histories, and sometimes using visual or creative ways of understanding relationships. We will regularly think together about whether therapy is helping and what you would like from our work.

About Me

Because relationships matter.

Relationships can be a source of enormous strength, connection and belonging, but they can also be where we experience some of our greatest difficulties. Sometimes couples or families find themselves caught in patterns that are difficult to change. At other times, experiences from the past continue to affect how we feel about ourselves and relate to the people around us.

I am a UKCP-registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and families. I offer a warm, thoughtful and collaborative space where we can explore what is happening in your life and relationships, understand patterns that may have developed over time, and consider different ways forward.

I bring more than 25 years' professional experience of working alongside children, young people, adults and families. I originally qualified as a Social Worker before training as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, and have particular experience in relationship and family difficulties, trauma and childhood sexual abuse, and addiction and the impact it can have on relationships and family life.

People come to therapy for many different reasons. You may be experiencing difficulties in a relationship, feeling disconnected from someone important to you, struggling with changes in family life, or noticing that experiences from the past continue to affect you in the present. You don't need to have everything worked out before getting in touch.

I work in central Brighton & Hove and online, and offer a free initial telephone consultation of up to 30 minutes so that we can talk briefly about what has brought you to therapy and whether working together might feel right.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
• Family Therapist
• Systemic Family and Couple Psychotherapist
• Systemic Psychotherapist