We can all experience difficulty in our lives. It doesn’t matter if you are a young adult or a senior client.  Sometimes it just feels as if everything is against us, we can feel trapped, helpless, or stuck. Counselling can help us find a way through.

I ask thoughtful questions to help you rebuild your relationship with yourself, because how we see ourselves shapes every other relationship in our lives. Whether you are navigating trauma, low self-worth, anxiety, disconnection, or the complexities of being neurodivergent (or “neuro-spicy”), we’ll work together to help you feel safe and move towards accepting yourself as you are. I welcome and support people from all backgrounds, whether or not neurodivergence is part of your experience. I work in a way that gently adapts to you as an individual.

There is no fluff, no jargon.  I meet you where you are, sometimes that might mean sitting across from you on your sofa, and sometimes it means sitting on the floor together. I might invite you to speak to an empty chair, explore an image or emotion card or try a CBT exercise to help you get unstuck and see your patterns more clearly.  This isn’t about fixing you. You are not broken. It is about learning how to understand yourself, care for yourself,  and communicate with people around you in an honest, compassionate, and sustainable way.

Using an integrative, Gestalt-informed approach, I offer support around inner child work, boundaries, and self-worth, with care and sensitivity. My work can feel particularly supportive for neurodivergent individuals who may have experienced feeling unheard, misunderstood, or overlooked, offering a space where you can begin to feel seen, heard, and accepted as you are.

Whatever your life experiences, our work together can gently explore patterns or beliefs that may no longer feel helpful. Through curiosity, reflection, and gentle challenge, new awareness and possibilities can begin to emerge, at a pace that feels right for you.

I may encourage you to draw on aspects of your life resources such as: relationships, interests, pets, and personal strengths to support your process. Rather than focusing on coping or fixing, this is about recognising the strengths you have already found to support and regulate yourself, and to navigate your world. I believe in the power of making little, achievable changes in everyday life, which can then lead to an upward spiral of more positive change, which can reverse the downward spiral of depression and anxiety. To help achieve these little changes I might encourage you to try a variety of interventions such writing on sticky notes, in journals or focus on the positive language.  My clients have seen and felt how these ‘small’ changes can lead to an upward spiral of more positive change, which can reverse the downward spiral of depression and anxiety.

At the heart of my practice is a deep respect for your intrinsic self. I believe that healing begins in spaces where you can feel safe enough to be yourself, where nothing needs to be hidden, and every part of you is welcomed with care.

It doesn’t matter whether you identify as ADHD, autistic, AuDHD, LGBTQIA+ or just being you, what matters is that something in you feels ready, in your own way and at your own pace, to take a step.