About me

I began my career working for over 15 years in creative therapeutic settings with a diverse group of people, including students. Seeing the healing benefits of people finding their own creativity and engaging with a community, as well as experiencing this myself,  inspired me to train as a counsellor. Now I support people find their own creative ways to heal and make changes. 

Alongside my counselling work, I work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, a key NHS mental health Trust. I’ve been part of teams building therapeutic support for the workplace, and more recently been working at Tavistock Consulting which is a therapeutically minded organisational consultancy service. So, I have a particular interest in workplace issues.

As well as my private practice I have previously worked for an alcohol and addiction support agency, Mind, the Mental Health Charity and Gloucestershire Counselling service, which offered low cost counselling to victims of domestic abuse. 

Qualifications and memberships

• Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Member of BACP workplace
• DipHE Professional Counselling (BACP accredited course)
• Certificate Person Centred Counselling Skills (BACP accredited course)
• Certificate Gestalt Counselling Skills (BACP accredited course)
• Student member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists

Continuous professional development (CPD):

• Workplace Stress, Human Givens College
• Alcohol, Codependency, Motivational Interviewing, Creativity in Counselling, Shame, Mindfulness
• Clinical assessment training
• Trauma Informed Practice when working with survivors of Sexual Violence
• Trauma with Babette Rothschild
• Reading Seminars – Organisational Consultancy & Change; exploring systems psychodynamics, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
• Online counselling – Advancing knowledge, Open University