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 in a way that cultivates self-love and compassion.

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 (ERA) 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 work 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

Through my adult life, 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 and then, being drawn to the outdoors, I trained as an outdoor instructor/development trainer with a UK charity running wilderness residential development courses for young people from inner cities.

I approach therapy through an ecological, systemic, developmental, and neuro-psychological (Polyvagal Theory) lens, seeking to aid psychological and relational healing and integration. I’m interested in how moving 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, and especially when working with past trauma and PTSD. There was a particular leaning towards the psychodynamic frame and gestalt psychotherapy in my training and over the years I have integrated my approach with compassion-focused therapy, neuro-biology and ecological psychotherapy. I facilitate opportunities for clients to gain more understanding of their attachment style, as well as move towards inhabiting more safety and security in their (body/mind) systems.

I am a registered Arts Therapist (Drama) with the Health and Care Professions Council and adhere to their code of ethics. I offer professional, ethical, confidential, and impartial therapy to everyone I work with. People often report that they experience me as warm, accepting 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.