I am a fully qualified integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor with experience in working with adults, teenagers and children.

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My core counselling training was with Spurgeon's College in London. I have since continued my therapeutic training with various course providers such as The Link Centre who specialise in Transactional analysis, PESI around a number of topics such as somatic therapy, childhood trauma and working with parts and inner child healing. I have also completed many of Carolyn Spring's courses on working with trauma and abuse, along with many other short courses on topics such as grief. working with therapeutically with neurodivergence and integrating mindfulness art, stones and clay therapy into my practise. I believe in not just working with the mind but also the body as both are connected.

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I am currently studying to be an EMDR trauma therapist and look forward to offering this service to you within my private practise later this year.

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I am a member of the BACP and ACC and follow both their guidelines for working safely and ethically and maintain a minimum of 30hours of continued professional development each year.

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I was lucky enough to train with Place2be during my training and since have worked in many primary schools in the South East, counselling children creatively through a combination of talk, art, play and clay therapy. Whilst I don't work with children under 12 in my private practise, I do believe the experience of offering therapy to children keeps me curious, creative and playful in my therapy practise and helps with inner child healing work.

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I have worked as part of a counselling agency team in South East London offering low cost counselling to a wide variety of people going through anything from complicated grief to long term depression and anxiety.

 

I now work in full time private practise and enjoy working with a variety of individuals and I continue to invest in my professional development on a monthly basis as well as benefitting from monthly group and individual supervision.

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I decided at 16 years old that I wanted to be a therapist as I loved human psyhcology and listening to people, but was advised by my school careers adviser to revisit this idea when I was a bit older and wiser, so I have enjoyed two careers! My first was in newspaper and magazine publishing, I spent 12 years working on various publications in London, my favourites being BBC Good Food Magazine, Olive and delicious magazine. It was a busy, glamourous and faced paced environment and I loved the creativity and how socialsble it was! However I am now enjoying a slower pace of life in beautiful Sevenoaks, doing what I feel is my life's work. Being able to help others who are experiencing difficulties in life is an honour, it is such a great pleasure to be able to journey with people in this way and I never take my clients trust in me for granted.

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In my personal life I enjoy walking my rescue dog Elsie in the woods or by the sea, chilling at home with my cats watching a film or cooking a curry. I also love to socialise with friends and family over a meal or few drinks and I love relaxing in a yoga class and the sauna. I am also a avid reader.

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