Areas I work with

Anxiety can take many forms: constant background worry, a racing mind at 3am, panic that arrives out of nowhere, or a sense of dread that never quite lifts. It often comes with physical symptoms — a tight chest, poor sleep, an inability to switch off.

In therapy we look at what your anxiety is about, not just how to manage it. Often anxiety is doing a job — keeping you alert to something that once genuinely wasn’t safe. Because anxiety lives so much in the body, I also draw on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to help you notice and settle physical activation.

Trauma isn’t only about single catastrophic events. It can also be the cumulative effect of growing up in an environment where you didn’t feel safe, seen or supported. Either way, the past can keep showing up in the present — as flashbacks, hypervigilance, numbness, or relationships that keep going wrong in the same way.

Traumatic experience is stored in the body and nervous system, as much as in explicit memory. Using the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy framework means we can work with the physical side of trauma carefully and at a pace that stays within what feels manageable. The aim is not to relive the past but to help your system register that it is over.

There is no right way to grieve and no timetable for it. Grief can arrive as sadness, but also as numbness, anger, guilt, relief, or a sense that the world has quietly lost its colour.

Psychotherapy can offer a space to talk about the person you’ve lost. It can also provide an opportunity to gently untangle what can be a complicated set of emotions, which may extend beyond the bereavement itself.

Individual therapy for the relationship patterns that keep repeating — conflict, distance, loneliness, break-ups, and the self-esteem that sits beneath these.

Psychotherapy can help to better understand the patterns that can play out in relationships, by understanding your attachment style and why we choose who we choose. While I work with individuals rather than couples, valuable insights can be gained from looking at the relationship from the outside.

A psychedelic experience can bring up a lot — insight, difficult memories, altered ways of seeing yourself and your life — and it isn’t always clear what to do with this afterwards. Integration is the work of taking what came up and weaving it into everyday life, so that it becomes lasting change rather than a memory that fades or an experience that unsettles you.

I offer a confidential, non-judgemental space to prepare for an experience you’ve decided to have, or to process one you’ve already had — including experiences that were confusing or distressing. The body-aware approach of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a natural fit here, because much of what arises in these states is felt rather than thought.

I don’t provide, source or recommend any substance, and I don’t facilitate sessions.

Low mood, loss of motivation, harsh self-criticism, or a flatness that makes everything feel like effort.

Depression can be hard to explain to other people, and hard to admit to yourself — especially when nothing obvious has gone wrong. It often brings a sense of being stuck, a loss of interest in things that used to matter, and a quiet conviction that this is just how things are now (and even that this is how they have always been).

Psychotherapy offers a steady relationship in which that conviction can be questioned. Together we can look at where the low mood comes from, and what it might be protecting you from, and begin to reconnect with what gives your life meaning. If you are struggling to get through the day, it’s also worth speaking to your GP, and I’m happy to work alongside that support.