About Me

in trainingWith 20 years of experience working in the voluntary, NHS and private sectors, including personal therapy and supervision, I have gained so much experience and knowledge from so many of my clients who were all amazing people. They taught me first-hand the reality of mental health difficulties, the internal reasoning and belief systems that allowed destructive patterns to continue for years chipping away at every area of their lives until the rock that they imagined they were begins to crumble and disintegrate. Many have said that, by that time, they felt hopeless and did not have the strength or will to fight another day.

I have created group workshops for foster carers, teachers, parents and young people to help them understand themselves and their interactions with others. This has broadened their awareness and confidence to make positive changes to their work and their personal relationships strengthening their mental wellbeing and helping them make realistic decisions which created healthy control in their lives.

I offer weekly holistic, psychic and self-awareness courses to help people learn how to meditate. Meditation enables us to observe life’s difficulties and challenges from the outside. It can help us move through these complex  phases of our lives giving us a sense of control and perspective. Meditation can help us respond constructively to these everyday misfortunes which blight our lives with feelings of helplessness and inadequacy. We then learn to no longer carry that which has ceased to serve us, living in the present not through the distortions of past experience.

I am what I would describe as a humanist. I have no set religious beliefs yet trust that we all have inner qualities at our essence that evolve through life’s challenges and adversities. I believe that we all have the ability to reconnect to ourselves and to what may have been lost and disconnected.

Qualifications:

M.A. in Child, adolescent and family psychotherapy

Level 5 Integrative Counselling.

Couples relationship therapist

Art, Sand and Play therapist

Supervisor

Qualified Holistic therapist

Reiki Master 

Psychosexual psychotherapist in-training

Tavistock relationships

Apart from my qualifications providing me with a career, I learnt the important truth that in order for me to feel fully effective in helping others, I needed first to work through and understand my own, attachment, abandonment, rejection and co-dependency needs. The way I learnt, was by experiencing those dark challenging and sometimes terrifying moments for myself. There were times when I thought I could not continue the therapy process, which sometimes felt like I was trying to run through an endless lake of oil. But I persevered. Now, I am able to connect to those experiencing similar journeys whilst giving them the tools to help them pull themselves through because I have been there and come out the other side.