About Me
My passion for understanding and working with people began by studying Psychology at University, graduating with a BA Hons degree. Following that I spent a year solo travelling around the world across many different countries including Indonesia, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. My love of the learning environment began when I joined a media company and remained there for 12 years, growing a career in training and development, working within the UK and in South Africa.
Experiencing an episode of (what would now be recognized as) post-natal depression following my first sons’ birth, I was inspired to want to retrain as a counsellor. I gained my essential counselling qualifications before completing a 2-year Diploma in Relationship Counselling and further training in Attachment
I have been fortunate to continue my love of training through my roles as a tutor for Optima Health Services on their level 5 attachment diploma and for relate on their level 5 relational diploma.
My Counselling Approach and Experience
I am an experienced relationship counsellor working online with individuals and couples both within a busy private practice and for the relationship organisation – relate. I work both on a short term and long term basis dependent upon what is driven by my client(s).
I adopt an integrative approach which is firmly rooted within attachment theory. This means that I can draw on a range of models and theories to enable a counselling experience best suited to the needs of my client. I have experience of working with people in many different types of relationships including married, living together or apart, LGBTQI+, non-monogamous and everything in between. I have previously worked with many different relationship issues including communication, betrayal and affairs, differing parenting styles, managing conflict and declining sexual intimacy. I have experience of working with a range of different topics including mental and physical illness, loss, attachment wounds, neurodiversity, low self-esteem, sexual identity and childhood experience.