About Me
“Growth is not necessarily about fixing or healing. It is about learning to relate to our experience with greater awareness, compassion, and understanding.”
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My Experience
I qualified as a social worker in 1996 and my practice has encompassed working with a diverse range of clients with issues such as bereavement, childhood trauma and addiction. I currently work for B&NES Council in fostering and kinship care. My varied career has ranged from facilitating antenatal and parenting support groups, teaching baby massage, offering theraplay for children with attachment difficulties and being a Practice Educator.
Path to Psychotherapy
My interest in our relationship with our bodies and with the value of ‘bodyfulness’ and meditation led me to train as a Core Process Psychotherapist. I am a long-term yoga practitioner and experienced yoga teacher. I integrate these using an embodied approach to support clients to deepen their self-awareness and strengthen their sense of connection and wellbeing.
I have a keen interest in life transitions, from adolescence to adulthood, becoming a parent, and midlife to older age, and the existential questions that often arise during these times of change, loss and renewal.
I offer a compassionate and grounded therapeutic space where difficulties can be explored safely, while also making room for humour, connection, and the things that bring us joy.
My approach
My approach is integrative and person-centred. I am committed to providing psychotherapy in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment. I am a member of ACPP and adhere to their Ethical Framework.
“We are not here to fit in… we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being… we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
— James Hollis
Accreditation & Training
Qualifications & Memberships
Core Process Psychotherapy (Postgraduate Trainee)
Karuna Institute
Currently undertaking intensive postgraduate clinical training in contemplative psychotherapy.
Qualified Social Worker (CQSW / DipSW)
Social Work England, since 1996
Extensive background working within public social care and family system frameworks, supporting diverse communities.
Trainee Member of UKCP and ACPP
UK Council for Psychotherapy, Association of Core Process Psychotherapists
Committed to ongoing professional clinical supervision and peer support networks.
