Hello, and welcome to my website where you can find information about my work.

You may have found your way here because you have something that needs tending in your life? I bring my experience of over twenty years as a therapist, facilitator and supervisor to be alongside my clients to help explore the barriers that may be hindering them from moving forward in their lives. Together, we co-create a path towards healing and integration, inviting the cultivation of hope, self-compassion and awareness.

Whatever your focus is for therapy, I will be interested in what you are wanting from the work, and will be led by this.

I am an established senior therapist and clinical supervisor working outdoors and online. My practice is based in Derbyshire, where I offer therapy, supervision and immersive nature-based sessions and workshops for personal and professional development.

I offer arts therapy, nature-based psychotherapy, and lifespan integration therapy for adults; I deliver Ecological Relatedness & Arts sessions (personal ecological development/cpd); and clinical supervision for therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals. I work with adults from all backgrounds, including gender, cultural identities, and racial heritage.

People seek therapy with me to...

• attend to their anxiety and/or depression to feel lighter and more empowered

• shift their difficulties relating to others to feel a greater solidity and openness

• integrate issues rooted in past trauma to feel safer, more confident and cohesive

• move from a sense of disconnection from the world, to feeling a sense of belonging and a part of the world

• develop an embodied ecological practice

What to expect when you get in touch for therapy

To get in contact please see details at the bottom of this page. Normally, I invite a brief chat on the phone to arrange an initial consultation. This is a free half hour meeting online, offering you time to ask any questions you have about therapy and to get a sense of whether we would be a good ‘fit’. There is no obligation to enter into therapy at this stage. This meeting is not a therapy session and I don’t invite any depth of sharing at this point to ensure people aren’t activated into difficult, or unmanageable feelings that we can’t follow up on.

If, after this brief meeting, you want to attend a full consultation, this is where you tell me more about your current situation, your past and tell me about what you want from therapy. This 60 minute consultation is charged at my hourly rate. I hold everything you share with me, and your identity, in complete confidence, according to my professional code of ethics.

After the full consultation, we decide whether to work together. Throughout this process, from making contact to completing the full consultation, there is no obligation to enter into therapy with me, and you can take your time to consider this whether I might be the right therapist for you.

About me

I am a registered arts therapist, lifespan integration therapist, ecological practitioner and creative supervisor. My work is underpinned by creative, ecological, systemic, developmental, neuro-psychological and embodiment approaches, seeking to cultivate nature-based psychological and soul level awareness, relational healing and integration.

I have always worked with people supporting health and well-being, often using creativity, often outdoors. Prior to qualifying as a therapist, I was a youth worker in the public sector and an outdoor instructor/development trainer with a UK charity delivering residential wilderness courses for ‘at risk’ young people from inner cities. Post qualifying, I held two positions in a CAMHS team before moving into private practice.

I’m interested in how when we move towards trusting in a compassionate and safe environment we can access fragmented parts of ourselves and invite cohesion and wholeness. I am trauma-informed and support a body-mind approach to therapy, especially when working with past trauma and PTSD. I facilitate opportunities for clients to gain more understanding of their attachment style (how we interact and behave in relationship with others), as well as move towards inhabiting more safety and security in their (body-mind) systems. This can have a healthy impact on developing a more secure attachment experience.

I am registered with HCPC and adhere to their ethical codes of conduct and I offer professional, ethical, confidential, and impartial therapy, supervision and cpd workshops. People often report that they experience me as warm, accessible and non-judgemental, and that I’m able to articulate their difficulties and challenges in a non-shaming and compassionate way.

It’s important for me to engage in my own nature-relatedness practice, to gain a reflective space where I re-source. I also have an art practice which is inspired by, and in relationship with, nature; in particular I’m drawn to rock and land forms, trees and atmospheric weather.