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*** Most of my work is still online via Teams and will continue to be so, although I also work face-to-face-in-person from my practice in Newbury Park, Ilford, IG2.***

As a counsellor/psychotherapist, my way of working is a trauma-informed person-centred approach integrated with pluralistic principles, psychodynamic concepts and psychoeducation.

I work holistically and relationally with the whole person - a humanistic model that facilitates growth.

I believe each person has the resources within themselves to grow and resolve their difficulties, given the right environment so I work collaboratively with clients to work through their difficult issues by providing the appropriate environment.

I have experience in working with individual adult clients, couples/relationships/families as well as group therapy.

As a supervisor, my aim is to facilitate your reflection on your practice, supporting you in your work with your clients as well as your own wellbeing and professional development.

I see my role as a supervisor as one of working collaboratively with you to facilitate your reflection on your work and your congruence in it, underpinned by my person-centred and pluralistic philosophy to life and practice.

Through the supervision process and the activities within it, I expect that my supervisees will increasingly bridge gaps (where relevant) in their understanding between theory and practice, reflect on their work and review alternative perspectives, take fresh ideas back into their client work, wrestle with and probably untangle some ethical dilemmas, feel refreshed and reinvigorated in themselves, and grow both professionally and personally.

In my experience as a supervisee, when the balance between my client’s welfare and my own wellbeing/personal and professional development have been in harmony, I have experienced supervision as being positive: this is what I hope to offer to my supervisees.

If, following our email correspondence, we agree to work together, I will then send you some onboarding emails which will include practical information you might need as well as a working agreement and consent request for you to review.

We could also use the first session as an opportunity to explore what it is you’d like out of supervision and to get a sense as to whether we feel we are a good fit to work together.

In the session, we will be working with whatever it is you want to focus on after clarifying/renegotiating aspects of the working agreement to suit us both (where relevant).

At the end of that first session, we can decide whether or not we wish to continue to work together. Or you could take some time to think about it and come back to me.

Just like counselling/psychotherapy, the supervisory relationship is vital. Therefore I like us to factor in a review after our first 3 sessions together to determine how comfortable both parties feel regarding continuing working together.

The next step is for you to send me a message to arrange that initial session.

Available both in-person and online. I work face-to-face in Newbury Park, Ilford, IG2, and online across the UK.

If cost is a barrier, please do say so. I hold a small number of reduced-fee spaces and am always willing to talk it through.

Are you a mother lying awake at 3am, re-reading old texts from your adult child and asking yourself, "Where did I miss it?" Perhaps there's been an argument, a growing silence, or a painful estrangement, and you're exhausted from the worrying and trying to fix things that refuse to be fixed. You are not alone, and you are not a failure.

I work with mothers navigating guilt, shame, grief, and the identity crisis that can come when children grow into adults with lives of their own. I'm an active partner in your therapy, which means we will explore different possibilities together and look at what is truly within your power to change.

I also work with individuals, couples and families facing anxiety, family relationship breakdown, betrayal, estrangement, faith and cultural identity questions, and major life transitions, and I offer supervision for fellow practitioners.

Alongside my one-to-one, couples and family work, I'm now enrolling a small, confidential online group for mothers of adult children, where we move from "manager" to "consultant" in our children's lives, learning to love them fully without managing them.

If you're a mother worried about your adult child, facing a difficult relationship, or a season of change, you don't have to carry it alone.

I bring my real, everyday self to our sessions. I'm a warm, active partner in your therapy, which means we will navigate different possibilities together and look at what is truly within your power to change.

I specialise in family relationship repair, mothers of adult children, anxiety, and life transitions. My approach is trauma-informed and person-centred, integrated with pluralistic, humanistic and relational principles, drawing on coaching, solution-focused, existential, interpersonal and NLP methods where helpful.

I work holistically and relationally with the whole person, believing each of us holds the resources within to grow and resolve our difficulties given the right environment. I work collaboratively with you to create that environment.

The next step is to arrange an initial session.

This initial session (a full paid-for session) doubles as an assessment. Here we'd discuss where you're at and what you'd like to get out of therapy, and by the end we'd hopefully get a sense of whether we feel we're a good fit to work together.

You can contact me to arrange a mutually convenient appointment. At the end of that first session you can decide whether you'd like to continue, and how frequently, or take some time to think about it and come back to me.

If cost is a barrier, please do say so. I hold a small number of reduced-fee spaces and am always willing to talk it through. Every question is welcome, and so are you.