About me and how I work.

20 years experience and a personal story to help you live the life you want.

Accredited, recognised & published

My story.

I’ve always been fascinated by people.

As a child, I was endlessly curious about why people think, feel and behave the way they do. That curiosity eventually became my career – and my life’s work.

I trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at Goldsmiths and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, before working at The Priory, within the NHS and, for the past several years, in private practice.

Along the way, I’ve continued to deepen my practice through training in Compassion Focused Therapy, EMDR, breathwork and other trauma-informed approaches, always asking one question: how can I help people heal more effectively?

Then, around ten years ago, everything became personal.

A life-threatening illness forced me to stop and truly understand the impact of prolonged stress – not just intellectually, but physically. My body had reached a point where it could no longer keep going. It changed the way I viewed health, trauma and the connection between mind and body forever.

That experience brought home to me, in the most physical way, that what we live through does not just stay in our mind. The body carries its own story, through tension, exhaustion, alarm, pain and the ways it learns to protect us. This is when I truly and deeply understood somatic experience.

That experience led to some of the biggest decisions of my life: rebuilding after divorce, becoming a single parent and learning, often the hard way, what it really means to listen to your body rather than constantly push through.

It also transformed the way I work.

Today, I help people understand the stories their nervous system is telling, so they can move beyond surviving and begin living the life they truly want.

Because I believe healing isn’t about becoming someone else.

It’s about creating a life that feels safe enough to be yourself.

You are not broken. Your experiences have shaped the way you think, feel, relate and respond. I believe in our capacity to heal, to grow, and to change the patterns that no longer serve us.

If any of that resonates, let’s talk.

Outside the practice.

Away from the clinic, my focus is firmly on being a present mum to my two daughters.

I adore outdoors, exercise, animals. Lifestyle, physical fitness and health, for me, are a primary driver. Not for how it looks, but for what it does for mental health.

The body and the mind aren’t separate. Looking after one is looking after the other, and that conviction sits underneath everything I bring into the therapy room.

This is about a way of life, a philosophy, CBT as a way of life, being your own therapist.

Want to see how I work in the room? Explore ways to work together.

How I work.

I’m a clinician first.

My work is grounded in evidence-based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Compassion Focused Therapy, mindfulness, breathwork and imagery. Over the years, I’ve also integrated coaching and somatic approaches to create a truly personalised way of working.

The clinical training is the foundation. But I don’t just treat symptoms – I work with the whole person.

Trauma doesn’t only affect our thoughts. It lives in the nervous system, shaping how we feel, relate to others and experience the world. That’s why our work may include the mind, body, breath and gentle movement, helping your nervous system find safety again.

Trauma isn’t always one life-changing event. More often, it’s the accumulation of experiences that quietly influence how we parent, love, work and show up in life.

One of the biggest myths about therapy is that healing means reliving the worst moments of your life. It doesn’t.

Together, we’ll focus on understanding what happened, making sense of your experiences and helping your nervous system recover – without forcing you to revisit unnecessary pain.

I don’t believe you’re broken. I believe you have the capacity to heal.

My role is to help you understand yourself more deeply, reconnect with your strengths and create lasting change – so you can live the life you want, not the one your past has chosen for you.

Curious what this looks like in practice? See how we could work together.

What I bring to every session.

My training and qualifications

There are a lot of people calling themselves trauma experts right now. I think it matters that this is clinical, regulated, accredited, and built on twenty years of actually doing it, not a weekend certificate.

BABCP accredited (British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies)
Trained at Goldsmiths, University of London
Trained at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
Clinical experience: the Priory, NHS, private practice
Twenty years practice
Full DBS checked
Level 3 Safeguarding trained

I bring more than this to our sessions

I look at every client as a whole. Their mind, body, behaviour, story, and work with it all. This enables me to bring the exact and bespoke modalities to each and every client.

Here’s just some of what I bring to each session:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
Trauma-focused integrative psychotherapy
Imagery rescripting & rewind techniques
Somatic and nervous-system regulation work
Breath work and breath-led regulation
Yoga-informed and mindful movement practices
Hypnotherapy techniques

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