Is therapy for me?
Whatever’s brought you here, you don’t have to carry it alone
People come to me with all kinds of struggles, from everyday worry and low mood to the deepest, hardest-to-say things. Here are some of the reasons people reach out.
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Anxiety and overwhelm
When your mind won’t switch off, when worry runs ahead of you, or when everything simply feels like too much.
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Stress and burnout
When you’ve been running on empty for too long, pushing through exhaustion and struggling to keep up the pace you once did.
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Low mood and depression
When the colour has gone out of things, when you’re flat or exhausted, or when getting through the day takes everything you have.
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Trauma and abuse
The lasting effects of frightening, painful or overwhelming experiences, including things that happened long ago. We go at a pace that feels safe.
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Post-traumatic stress
When a difficult experience keeps intruding, through flashbacks, hypervigilance, or a body that stays on alert long after the danger has passed.
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Relationship difficulties
The same painful patterns repeating, difficulty trusting or feeling close, or a bond that keeps getting stuck. For individuals and couples alike.
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Life transitions
Becoming a parent, a change in work, the end of a relationship, or not quite knowing who you are on the other side of a big change.
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Loss and bereavement
Grief in all its forms, whether recent or long-carried, including the kinds of loss that others may not always recognise.
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Identity and belonging
The quiet sense of not quite belonging, of feeling like the other, of living between cultures, or of never feeling fully at home in yourself.
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Low self-esteem
The harsh inner voice, the sense of not being good enough, or a habit of putting everyone else’s needs before your own.
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Feeling stuck
When you know something needs to change but can’t see how, or keep returning to the same patterns despite your best efforts.
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Work-related stress
Pressure, overwhelm or difficult dynamics at work that follow you home and quietly wear you down over time.
You don’t need to fit neatly into any one of these, and you don’t need a diagnosis to begin. If something feels true for you, that’s reason enough to get in touch.
A particular focus
Complex and intergenerational trauma
While I work with the full range of human experience, this is where much of my focus lies. Some wounds run deep, or reach back through families across generations, shaping who we become long before we have words for it.
If you carry a heaviness you can’t quite trace to a single event, or feel the echoes of a past that doesn’t entirely feel like your own, you are not alone, and there is a way to work with it gently. More about how I work.
Who I work with
Individuals
One-to-one therapy shaped entirely around you and what you’re carrying.
Couples
Support for two people trying to understand each other and find their way back.
Organisations
Corporate and organisational support, by arrangement. Please get in touch.
How sessions work
All sessions are held by video call or telephone, so you can work with me from anywhere in the UK, wherever feels private and comfortable. I’m based in Bath and don’t currently offer in-person appointments.
Some people come for a few focused sessions around a specific issue; others stay for longer, deeper work over time. There’s no minimum and no maximum. We find the rhythm that suits you, and check in regularly to make sure it’s helping.
I don’t use one fixed method. Depending on what you need, I draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Somatic Body Processing, Existential Psychology and Relationship Counselling, tailored to you rather than the other way round. Read more about how I work.
Take the first step, at your pace
Book a free introductory call. It’s a brief, no-pressure conversation to talk about what you’re looking for and see whether working together feels right.