“We don’t have to do all of it alone.
We were never meant to.”

Life can be very busy, noisy and stressful. You are surrounded by pressures and expectations from family, friends, partners, society, and even yourself. All of this can make it hard to hear what you actually think or want. You may feel alone with your thoughts and feelings, as if no one could hear or understand you. Maybe you even feel like you can’t hear or understand what you’re feeling either.

Counselling gives you time each week to slow down and can help you hear your own thoughts, feelings and needs, and develop deeper connections and relationships. You are able to speak with someone who is there solely to listen to you and help you. Your relationship with me will be different from other relationships in your life, and it may be the first time you haven’t had to worry about someone else’s needs. Counselling allows you the opportunity and space to get in touch with who you are and what you want in life.

Counselling is a space for profound yet gentle transformation, where you can come home to yourself, unlearn the rules you never chose and build a life that feels like your own. Over time you begin to live from a place that feels true to who you are. You make choices – in relationships, work, daily life – that reflect and align with your own values, rather than the limiting expectations you’ve been carrying. You learn to stop over-performing to keep others close, and no longer feel the need to hold everything in to avoid conflict. You explore the rules you’ve been living by, and new beliefs take root which are gentler, truer, and more life-giving. Your inner voice softens and you start to trust yourself more and speak up more. You see yourself differently: no longer “too much”, but enough, worthy, whole. Through counselling you stop just surviving, and start living an empowered life that fits you.

My approach to counselling

My approach is relational, compassionate, and grounded in both professional and lived experience. I focus on creating a warm, empathic and caring relationship in which you feel heard, supported and accepted; helping you develop and see change in your life. I believe the counselling relationship can be used to help you understand your relationships and ways of relating with others in your life; past and present. This understanding can help you develop your ways of relating to others and yourself.

I believe each person is unique and has individual needs, and this is true in counselling. Therefore no one approach can work for every person. I am an integrative therapeutic counsellor, which simply means I draw from a variety of different methods and counselling theories; tailoring an approach which develops over time, to help you with what you need and where you are throughout the counselling journey.

Whether we’re exploring family patterns, relationships, identity, or the quiet fears that shape how you move through the world, I seek to offer a space where you can show up fully with no need to perform, no need to be “fixed.” Just a place to be seen, heard, accepted, and where you can slowly come home to yourself.