About Me

  • I have been working in my independent counselling practice since 2009 in London, Oxford and Bristol

  • I’ve worked with lots of people in lots of situations, therapeutic and creative group work and teaching, individual work.

  • I’m an artist and my work involves the overlap between the inner life/inner world, healing and creative practice, how they influence and support each other.

  • I live in Bristol with my partner and young child

  • I am neurodivergent being autistic, an ADHDer and also dyspraxic. I wear glasses with tinted lenses to calm the visual overstimulation I experience.

I have worked in my independent counselling and psychotherapy practice for 15 years in Bristol, Oxford and London. Since 2015 it has been my main work. These days I specialise in working with neurodivergent people and have undertaken specialist training to support this.

How I Came to Be a Counsellor

I first found out that there was theory about what makes people tick when I did a taster course in psychology at the college where I did my A levels. I was amazed to find out there was sense to be made and ways to think of humans and their behaviour and was captivated by the subject. It has been a passion of mine ever since. I went on to do a psychology degree at the University of Leeds where I became interested in the nature of perception and my dissertation focussed on human behaviour in relationships.

After that I worked in London in a resource centre for people with chronic mental health challenges. I ran creative therapeutic groups including art, music and writing and supported people individually. I also ran the volunteer service. I have also worked in Oxford teaching people experiencing homelessness strategies to manage mental health and also creative writing.

The imagination and self expression through creative practice are threads that have run through my work since the beginning and were a core part of my Psychosynthesis counselling training. I have been fortunate to have worked with a huge variety of people in different settings and different times and have witnessed the creative practices can reveal rich and new facets of experience and also give access to healing already residing in the person.

I have been employed in NHS counselling services in both Oxford and in Bristol.

As well as working with people I am also a working artist, at the moment primarily working in paint though I have worked with textile processes and materials and performance in the past. I completed a course in Arts Practice with a focus on health and wellbeing in 2003.