My Approach
My personal approach to therapy is compassionate, down-to-earth, flexible, and trauma-informed.
My approach to therapy balances practical support with deeper exploration. Sometimes we’ll focus on what’s happening for you right now, such as anxiety, stress, or difficult emotions. At other times, we’ll gently explore patterns in your thoughts, relationships, or past experiences that may still influence how you feel today.
I’m passionate about learning and growing as a therapist, and my training across different approaches means I can adapt the work to what feels most helpful for you.
I bring curiosity, compassion, honesty, and a healthy dose of humour to our sessions. My aim is to help you understand yourself more clearly while also building tools that support you outside of therapy and help create meaningful, lasting change.
Models I draw from:
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CBT focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It helps you notice patterns that may be keeping you stuck and develop practical ways to respond differently. CBT often involves learning tools to manage anxiety, low mood and difficult thinking patterns in everyday life.
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EMDR is a therapy that helps the brain process difficult or traumatic experiences that may still be influencing how you feel about yourself, others or the world. By working through these memories in a structured way, EMDR can help reduce their emotional intensity and allow more balanced and helpful beliefs to develop.
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CFT focuses on helping people develop a kinder and more understanding relationship with themselves. It can be particularly helpful if you struggle with self-criticism, shame or feeling not good enough, and works to build self-compassion and emotional resilience.
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ACT helps you develop a different relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings so they have less power over your actions. Rather than getting caught up in them, the focus is on learning how to “unhook” from unhelpful thoughts and move towards the things that matter most to you.
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IFS is based on the idea that we all have different “parts” of ourselves, such as a critical part, a worried part, or a part that tries to protect us. Therapy involves getting to know these parts with curiosity and compassion, helping them feel heard and creating more balance within yourself.
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NET is a trauma-focused therapy that helps people process difficult or traumatic life experiences by creating a structured narrative of their life story. This can help organise memories, reduce distress linked to trauma, and support recovery.
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Schema Therapy helps you understand long-standing patterns in thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that may have developed early in life. It works to gently challenge unhelpful patterns and build healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
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This approach draws on research about how the brain and nervous system respond to stress, emotions, and trauma. It also looks at neuroplasticity — how your brain can change and adapt — so therapy can help you create lasting ways of thinking, feeling, and responding.
What to expect
Starting therapy can feel a bit daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. It’s completely normal to feel unsure at first.
In the beginning, we will spend some time getting a sense of what has brought you to therapy and what you would like to change or understand better. There is no pressure to share everything straight away. We go at a pace that feels comfortable for you.
Sessions are usually a mix of talking things through, reflecting together, and trying out different ways of approaching the difficulties you are facing.
Depending on what feels helpful, therapy might involve:
talking about current stresses or challenges
learning practical tools to manage anxiety or low mood and to break vicious cycles
noticing patterns in thoughts, emotions or relationships and how these might have developed
working with the parts of you that feel anxious, stuck or protective, so they can feel calmer and less reactive
gently working through difficult or traumatic experiences
Some people come to therapy for a short period focused on a specific issue, while others prefer longer term work. We can check in regularly about how things are going and adjust things if needed.