About me

Having experienced my own share of life challenges and in the past experienced a period of time with my own mental health issues, this enabled me to decide to embark on my own career change. I stepped away from working successfully in the high profiled music industry and with broadcasting corporations and undertook many years of training to facilitate others who found themselves stuck or isolated in life pressures or mental health issues.

As a qualified and registered counsellor & psychotherapist I am passionate to help others achieve ways forward in emotional or psychological issues.  For the last 20 years I have felt very privileged working closely with many individuals from 8 to 87 years in the NHS, public, private and voluntary sectors undertaking therapeutic work face-to-face and on-line.

With extensive experience working with psychopathology and a variety of mental health issues with differing degrees of severity, I have learnt to be more open to the uniqueness of every individual's difficulty, personal battle and journey with mental health issues.  I have worked with clients with self-esteem and confidence issues, anxiety and panic disorders, depression, self-harm, addictions, phobias, OCD and assisted others with attachment and adjustment issues, loss or bereavement. I have substantial experience working with deeper issues such as Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD), Psychosis, Personality Disorders, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Schizophrenia, Suicide Ideation and those in Crisis with intent, as well as supporting individuals with Learning Difficulties, ASD, Cancer, Chronic illnesses and working with family members and carers.

I specialise working with adjustment, loss & trauma & I am passionate in helping others to overcome life hurdles or mental health issues. I work holistically drawing on a range of relational and psychodynamic models and techniques to enable individuals to gain a greater sense of well-being, re-connect to the lost parts of self and enhance coping strategies. I can be by your side, help you to find ways forward if you give talking therapies a chance. I am here to support you if you will let me.

If you are thinking it is time to Pick Up The Pieces, find yourself again or just fed up feeling in limbo, lost or alone we can find those missing pieces together. I can help you regain focus and control to find a happier you.