Counselling Services
Individual Counselling
I believe that counselling is a collaborative process, yet it is tailored to your individual needs, which means that I listen to understand how your experiences impact your life without making assumptions, interpretations or trying to fit you into a mould. I am a relational therapist, where I draw from different approaches to give you the best help.
I will walk alongside you without getting in the way of your thoughts, processes, and insights. You will feel supported and held by me whenever you go through the more painful aspects of the therapeutic process. With a compassionate, non-judgmental stance, I will help you to connect with feelings you may have been avoiding or experiences you might have felt difficult to face and explore on your own. Together, we will work to identify unhealthy patterns, develop healthier coping strategies, and foster self-awareness, allowing you to regain control over your life and relationships. We will move towards healing that focuses both on emotional wellbeing and on behavioural change.
I am committed to supporting you throughout this unique journey toward recovery and personal growth creating lasting change; developing self-compassion, self-confidence, self-acceptance, and enthusiasm for life.
Relationship Counselling
I work with individuals and couples to help them understand their partner, explore emotional patterns, relationship dynamics, communication challenges and deeper roots of the distress. I help couples to identify and move out of cycles of conflict, rebuild trust, restore closeness and build meaningful, fulfilling and lasting change.
My intention as your therapist is to help you to become more aware and clearer about the relationship you want – grounded in mutual respect, emotional honesty and genuine partnership – and address the issues that are getting in the way; creating space to negotiate and implement changes for closer connection and secure foundation where both of you can grow and flourish.
Together we will work on strengthening communication, boundary repair after conflict as well as identifying patterns that keep you stuck. I will support each of you towards greater accountability and healthier ways of relating.
I specialise in working with couples to understand and deal with compulsive sexual behaviours and infidelity, process betrayal trauma or unresolved past trauma that may be impacting their relationship. Trauma work helps both partners to build the capacity to explore why they react the way they do in intimate moments and confront unhealthy behaviours that are harming their relationship.
I take an emotionally focused, systemic and psychodynamic approach that helps partners understand themselves and each other more deeply. The couples I work with use self-awareness as the foundation for healthier communication, emotional regulation, and connection. On the other hand, if you think you may be facing separation, I can support you in considering how to manage this as constructively and non-confrontationally as possible.
Counselling for Compulsive Sexual Behaviour
In my early clinical work, I noticed that some clients used compulsive sexual behaviours as a coping strategy to manage stress, anxiety, anger, shame and other challenging emotions, unmet relational needs. This inspired me to study the deep, often misunderstood and mistreated nature of compulsive sexual behaviour and how best to support clients struggling with it.
One might argue whether it is addiction and how it can be treated. This is not a medically recognised diagnosis but there is evidence how sex or porn use can feel ‘out of control’ and cause you difficulty. It could include masturbation, watching porn, engaging in cybersex, sleeping with strangers, visiting sex workers, etc. It is often not the behaviour itself that is the issue, but your relationship with it and inability to stop. If it is having a destructive impact on some areas of your life, including your work, finances, relationship or sexual wellbeing, and you may benefit from some extra support.
I conduct an in-depth assessment that can help to answer those questions and provide a thorough understanding of what’s beneath the surface and whether it causes any detrimental effects to one’s life.
I understand how isolating and confusing it can feel to struggle with it, you are not alone — and you are not broken. This is an issue that people from all walks of life can struggle with, regardless of age, gender, religion, sexuality and it is often surrounded by feelings of conflict and shame, it can be very hard to seek support for these reasons, but please do not let that deter you.
I am a registered member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsion (ATSAC) and will provide a non-judgmental space to talk about difficulties, such as those described above, that are worrying you. The first stage of our work together will be an in-depth assessment to explore the ‘roots’ of your issues. Together, we can explore what is going on for you, work through shame, and gently reconnect you with a sense of agency, clarity, and self-worth. We will work collaboratively to create strategies to explore changes that you would like to make to achieve your definition of recovery and lead a more a rewarding life in which you are able to thrive. Please be aware that I am only trained to support people with non-offending behaviours. If you are concerned that your behaviour has crossed this line, then you may wish to seek support from a specialist agency such as StopSO UK.
Couple Counselling
I specialise in working with couples to understand and deal with compulsive sexual behaviours and infidelity, process betrayal trauma or unresolved past trauma that may be impacting their relationship. Trauma work helps both partners to build the capacity to explore why they react the way they do in intimate moments and confront unhealthy behaviours that are harming their relationship.
This is often the most helpful when all parties having accessed individual therapy, although on initial discovery or disclosure you may also be seeking a space to talk through immediate concerns, understanding and decisions. During the process, you may want to focus on disclosure, the decision of whether to stay together, rebuilding trust and creating a mutually rewarding relationship, or overcoming sexual difficulties. Should you decide to go through a separation, I can support you in considering how to manage this as constructively and non-confrontationally as possible.
I take an emotionally focused, systemic and psychodynamic approach that helps partners understand themselves and each other more deeply. The couples I work with use self-awareness as the foundation for healthier communication, emotional regulation, and connection.
Counselling for Partners
Discovery or disclosure of your partner’s problematic sexual or porn use behaviours can be deeply painful, isolating or devastating. It can leave you feeling confused, betrayed, angry, ashamed, doubtful while trying to make sense of what has happened to the relationship and to yourself.
It can be helpful to seek individual support at this time and have a safe space to process the emotional impact of betrayal, secrecy and broken trust as well as shock, anxiety, low self-worth or emotional exhaustion as a result of relationship experiences.
I can support you to have a better understanding of what has happened, regain a sense of stability and self-worth, explore healthier boundaries and reconnect with your own needs and identity. Further into counselling, when you are feeling safer, you might wish to consider what your options and choices might be moving forward.
Supervision for Counsellors
I am a qualified supervisor listed on BACP and ATSAC supervisor registers and working towards accreditation. I have completed my Diploma in Supervision with the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology.
I have individual supervision sessions currently available for trained or trainee counsellors working in the areas of individual counselling and compulsive sexual behaviours. I am happy to be your primary supervisor, or a specialist supervisor.
My supervision fee is £55 per hour (£45 for trainees). Please contact me for more information or to book a free 20-minute introductory session.
I am currently not accepting new supervisees until January 2027.
