Qualifications: MA (Hons); PGDE; Ad.Dip. in Integrative Counselling

Accreditation: BACP

Availability: In person Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Online availability at other times

Price: £60 per session. I offer a free initial meeting via Teams lasting 15-20 minutes.

When there is no relationship in which we are able to communicate both aspects of our

divided self—our conscious façade and our deeper level of experiencing—then we feel

the loneliness of not being in real touch with any other human being.

Carl Rogers

I believe that healing takes place within a relationship grounded in warmth and compassion and that it is through open and honest dialogue that we come to understand ourselves and our relationships with others. For many of us, our thoughts and feelings bring shame and suffering however by illuminating these dark places we begin to understand our own humanity and suffering as simply human.

My background is in literature and philosophy, and my practice draws from a lifelong fascination with what it means to be human and how we strive to make sense of the world we inhabit. We all face the ultimate concerns of death, isolation, identity, freedom and meaning(lessness) but it is the unique way in which they are interwoven into our identities that creates our personal journey. It is the way that we express and narrate our experiences, both in how we act and the language that we use, that is the foundation for our exploration into our own psychic worlds. With attentive presence and deep listening I am there to support your journey toward self-understanding and acceptance.

I am influenced by creative expression, by literature and poetry, and by the way we story our lives. I am interested in symbolic and metaphorical images that arise for us in our waking and dream states and by both our interpersonal and transpersonal experiences. My strongest influences have been Buddhism and Jungian psychology, and I support my own mental wellbeing with regular yoga practice.

As we move in time, dust of experiences, of knowledge, of lived life, of past, collects. That dust becomes our ego. Accumulated, it becomes a crust around you which has to be broken and thrown away. One has to take a bath continuously—every day, in fact every moment, so that this crust never becomes a prison.

Osho