Life can become quite difficult and overwhelming at times. It can happen to any of us. We may have people around to help and support us, but sometimes that isn’t enough or it isn’t available. We may worry about being judged or being honest about how we feel incase it offends other people. Social, family and cultural pressures may leave us struggling to feel ‘good enough.’ Emotional difficulty and overwhelm can be frustrating at best or hugely impact on our mental health and resilience to cope.

 Counselling offers a unique relationship and a confidential space to explore emotional difficulties, life experiences, relationships and feelings about ourselves, without any judgement. It’s a safe space to explore what’s going on for you, to help uncover, understand, accept or change patterns that are no longer working for you.

Giving yourself the time to explore these difficulties is a healthy way of putting yourself first. It’s becoming more necessary in the demanding fast-paced, pressurised world of today. Too often we overlook our own needs or fail to give ourselves permission to acknowledge what’s okay and what isn’t. So many other things require our attention and there’s little time to process, reflect or start to heal from past trauma, loss or current fears and frustrations.

Specialising in children’s counselling with over 15 years of experience working with children and young people within an education and care setting. Since January 2018, I have worked as a counsellor using the concepts of play therapy at Place2be, a children’s mental health charity based in London that provides counselling in primary and secondary schools.  Having young adults, teenagers and young children within my immediate family, also helps me to keep up to date with the types of struggles that young people face today. Helping them to connect with the true essence of who they are, and making sense of their world, in order for them to find their courage to be and thrive, is a real privilege.

As well as working in Private Practice, Since March 2018, I have worked with all age groups as a Counsellor at the Challenging Behaviour Counselling and Wellbeing Foundation. I am also a Counselling Lecturer and I really enjoy being a part of that learning environment and watching students grow and develop. This also helps to ensure that my counselling knowledge remains current.

I feel really passionate about working with adults, teens and young people in this way. Witnessing the positive changes that can occur over time is what motivates me and it’s an honour to be a part of that journey. A journey within a counselling space where you can be truly seen, heard, understood and appreciated for who you are, with no judgements or conditions placed on you. A journey of self discovery where you find the courage to look at yourself, your life experiences and your patterns of relating, in order to build resilience, good mental health, positive change and achieve your goals.

A time to just be, to start to look at whatever is causing a disturbance to your inner peace and harmony with no worry about how you may be perceived or who you may be impacting on.