A Safe, Non Judgemental Space for Recovery and Healing

Therapy offers individuals a supportive and confidential space to address personal challenges, gain clarity, and improve overall well-being. It empowers you to better understand yourself, manage emotions effectively, and make meaningful changes.

Common reasons individuals seek therapy:

Mental Health Concerns: Addressing anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, stress, and other mental health challenges.

Healing from Trauma: Processing traumatic experiences safely, building resilience, and reclaiming personal strength.

Relationship Difficulties: Exploring challenges in romantic, family, or social relationships, and learning healthy ways to communicate and connect.

Managing Addiction: Receiving support and strategies to overcome substance abuse or other addictive behaviours.

Personal Growth: Increasing self-awareness, self-confidence, and achieving personal goals.

Life Transitions: Navigating significant life changes such as career shifts, relocation, parenting, retirement, or loss.

Enhancing Emotional Regulation: Developing skills to manage intense emotions, improve mood, and respond to challenges effectively.

Living with Chronic Illness: Coping with the emotional and psychological impacts of chronic illnesses and long-term health conditions.

How Individual Therapy Can Help:

Provide a compassionate and non-judgmental space for self-exploration and growth.

Offer tailored strategies and coping mechanisms to manage life's difficulties.

Enhance personal insight and promote lasting change.

Foster resilience, emotional balance, and greater overall happiness

Reconnect, repair, and rebuild your relationship — together.

Every relationship faces challenges. Whether you’re feeling stuck in repeating arguments, disconnected emotionally or physically, or navigating major life changes, couples therapy can offer a safe space to explore what’s happening and find your way forward.

Common Reasons Couples Seek Therapy:

Communication breakdown

Trust issues or infidelity

Parenting stress or disagreements

Emotional or physical disconnection

Navigating neurodiversity or mental health challenges

Addiction and its impact on the relationship

Managing anger, jealousy, or past trauma

Life transitions (e.g., new baby, grief, retirement)

How I Work

I offer a calm, non-judgmental space where both partners are heard and respected. My approach is trauma-informed and collaborative — meaning I pay attention to what each partner brings, including past experiences that may be influencing current patterns.

Together, we’ll:

Identify the core issues driving conflict or distance

Build communication skills and emotional safety

Explore needs, values, and expectations

Foster mutual understanding and reconnection

Every Relationship is Unique

Whether you want to stay together, separate peacefully, or simply improve how you relate to one another, I’ll support you both in a way that honours your individual voices and shared goals.

Healing is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone.

Addiction can impact every area of a person’s life — their health, relationships, work, and sense of self. It can also deeply affect family members, partners, and children. Whether you’re struggling with addiction yourself or supporting someone who is, you deserve support that is compassionate, trauma-informed, and grounded in real understanding.

How can we work together

In our work together, we’ll explore:

- The ‘’roots of addiction’’ — often linked to trauma, unmet emotional needs, or adverse childhood experiences.

- The ‘’function’’ addiction has served in your life (e.g., numbing pain, coping with anxiety, managing shame).

- Triggers, patterns, and beliefs that maintain the cycle.

- New ways to ‘’regulate emotion’’, ‘’build resilience’’, and ‘’restore connection’’ — both to yourself and to others.

My approach is pluralistic and client-led, meaning we’ll work in a way that suits your needs. Whether that involves talking therapy, grounding techniques, inner child work, or psychoeducation, I’ll support you at your pace.

Support for Families

I also work with loved ones of people who are experiencing addiction. Often, family members feel helpless, angry, or lost. Together, we’ll explore how to support your loved one without losing yourself in the process.

Issues I Work With

- Alcohol or drug use

- Gambling addiction

- Sex or porn addiction

- Prescription medication misuse

- Process addictions (shopping, gaming, etc.)

- Co-dependency and enabling patterns

- Shame, guilt, and self-stigma

Why Addiction Isn’t Just About Willpower

Addiction is not a moral failing — it’s often a response to pain. Many people with addiction histories carry deep wounds, including childhood trauma, neglect, or abuse. I work from a trauma-informed lens that honours your story and promotes healing, not shame.

Families can be an incredible source of strength, love, and resilience. Yet, even the strongest families can face challenges and periods of difficulty. Seeking professional support can empower your family to navigate these moments with compassion, clarity, and renewed connection.

Common reasons families seek support:

• Improving Communication: Enhancing understanding, reducing conflict, and learning to communicate more openly and effectively.

Managing Family Transitions: Supporting your family through major changes such as divorce, fostering, adoption, bereavement, illness, or relocation.

• Understanding and Supporting Mental Health: Learning how to care for family members who may experience anxiety, depression, trauma, behavioural difficulties, or developmental differences.

• Healing from Trauma: Providing space to safely process past or ongoing trauma, fostering resilience and connection in family relationships.

• Addressing Addiction Within the Family: Helping families navigate the complex dynamics and emotional challenges associated with addiction, fostering understanding, setting healthy boundaries, and supporting recovery for both the individual and the family unit as a whole.

• Coping with Family Breakdown: Offering support and guidance to manage the emotional and practical challenges arising from family breakdown, separation, or estrangement, helping family members to heal, rebuild, or find healthy ways forward.

• Parenting Challenges: Gaining insights and practical strategies for nurturing children and adolescents, especially those with additional emotional or behavioural needs.

• Strengthening Family Bonds: Deepening relationships through improved emotional expression, empathy, and mutual support.

How Family Support Can Help:

Create a safe, supportive environment to explore challenges openly and honestly.

Equip your family with practical skills to overcome conflicts, communicate compassionately, and build resilience.

Help each family member feel seen, heard, and understood, fostering deeper trust and connection.

Encourage healing, growth, and positive change, both individually and collectively as a family unit.

A safe, supportive space for teenagers to talk, explore, and be themselves.

Adolescence is a time of big emotions, identity shifts, peer pressure, and growing independence. It can be tough to navigate — especially when anxiety, low self-esteem, family conflict, or trauma are part of the picture. I provide a space where teens feel heard, respected, and understood, without fear of judgment.

What Teens Can Talk About in Counselling:

Anxiety or panic

Depression or low mood

Self-harm and suicidal thoughts

School refusal or bullying

Family conflict or parental separation

Gender, sexuality, and identity

Social pressure and self-image

Grief or loss

Trauma and adverse experiences

My Approach

Work from a trauma-informed and pluralistic perspective — meaning I adapt the work to what fits best for each young person. This might include talk therapy, creative expression, play-based approaches, or grounding techniques. Relationship and safety are always at the heart of the work.

I also support neurodiverse teens, including those with autism, ADHD, or sensory sensitivities. Every young person is unique, and I always aim to meet them where they’re at.

Confidentiality & Trust

Teens need to know they can talk freely. I explain the boundaries of confidentiality clearly and make sure the young person feels empowered in the process. Where safety concerns arise, I work collaboratively with parents or carers while still respecting the teen’s voice.

Because those who hold space for others need holding too.

Foster carers open their homes and hearts in extraordinary ways—but often carry the weight of emotional labour that goes unseen. The role can be deeply meaningful, but also exhausting, isolating, and complex—especially when caring for children with trauma, attachment difficulties, or additional needs.

I’ve extensive experience as a foster carer and I understand firsthand how layered, beautiful, and emotionally demanding the role can be. I know how complex it gets—navigating systems, holding the stories of young people in pain, balancing your own family’s needs, and sometimes carrying the impact of loss or breakdown.

A Space for You

In this space, you don’t have to be the “strong one.” You can take off the mask, speak honestly, and be supported—without judgment or pressure. I offer a safe, confidential environment where we can explore:

The emotional impact of caring for children with complex needs

Compassion fatigue, burnout, and boundaries

The effects of vicarious trauma

Navigating relationships with birth families, social workers, and schools

Supporting your own family system, including biological children

Processing grief, loss, or disrupted placements

Therapy That Understands

You won’t need to explain the system or justify your feelings. I work from a trauma-informed, attachment-focused lens—and I truly understand the realities foster carers face every day.

This isn’t about giving you more strategies. It’s about supporting you—as a person not a carer.