Beginning therapy can feel scary. The process of gaining more awareness of what troubles you can, at times, be difficult.

I believe that one of the main factors that will support you in your brave journey is our relationship. I will aim to create a warm, supportive space and provide a genuine, non-judgemental and empathic relationship that enables your therapeutic journey.

This relationship should provide the safe container in which you can be curious about what happens between us in the moment, and how you experience the relationship, including your bodily sensations and what they might be telling you.

I believe in the uniqueness of human beings. I seek to understand what it is like to be in your shoes in the present day.

I appreciate each person’s creativity and resourcefulness. In childhood, we may have encountered environments that could not give us what we needed, so we learned to adapt. Sometimes, those adaptations mean we deny or change something of ourselves in the process.

These adaptations might impact us in later life, often in ways we find hard to see ourselves. I offer space for you to explore yourself, your relationships and your perceptions, to help you gain greater awareness and choice for how to live in the present.

I use a blend of three therapeutic approaches (Person-Centred, Transactional Analysis and Gestalt) which I weave together into my Humanistic practice.

Key components of this approach are:

- Viewing the client as the expert in their own experience, taking a client-led approach to honour each person’s capacity to find the answers best suited to them

- Commitment to providing a non-judgmental, genuine and empathic space

- A belief that supporting clients to find greater awareness will provide a clearer, more integrated sense of self, strengthen agency and broaden choice, within the limits and potentiality of a person’s contextual environment

- A holistic approach, viewing individuals as indivisible from, and impacted by, their environment.

- Viewing the therapeutic relationship as a space for clients to discover their patterns of relating and to try out new ways of being in a safe, supported environment