Based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, working face-to-face but also offering online for those who prefer it or are further afield, I am a fully qualified integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, meaning that I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches (person-centred, psychodynamic and relational) to suit your needs and unique situation.
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Integrative counselling is a holistic, flexible approach to therapy that looks at the whole person, considering your mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional needs (see my approach for more information). ​The client-counsellor relationship is key to successful therapy. Therapy can be challenging. Hence, I aim to build a trusting and non-judgmental relationship that helps you feel comfortable, safe and secure. In this setting, you can explore and come to understand your life history, behaviours, difficulties, concerns, or triggers. From this, you can begin to heal, make positive adjustments and set goals to improve your health, happiness, relationships, and satisfaction with life.

​I work with 18+ adults and have experience working with addiction, abuse, anger, anxiety, bereavement and loss (recent and past), depression, gender and identity issues, mental health and physical health issues, maternal issues (esp. ambivalence, post-natal depression), men’s issues (incl. toxic masculinity, male post-natal depression), OCD, relationships, trauma (incl. PTSD and CPTSD), self-esteem, sex and sexuality issues, work issues, women’s issues.

I have a background in academia, and I completed my doctorate in English Literature and Psychoanalysis at the University of Birmingham in 2016. I am a published author and write regularly on psychoanalysis and counselling and psychotherapeutic theory and practice.