Understanding you. Finding a way forward together.
Therapy begins with understanding what brings you here and what you would like to be different. Together, we explore your experiences openly, drawing on approaches that fit your needs and finding ways forward that feel meaningful to you.
Areas I work with
People come to therapy for many different reasons.
Sometimes there is a particular difficulty that has become hard to manage. Sometimes several things have become tangled together. And sometimes there is simply a sense of feeling stuck, overwhelmed or not quite yourself.
I work with adults experiencing a range of psychological difficulties and life circumstances, including:
Anxiety and feeling overwhelmed
Anxiety can show up in many ways persistent worry, feeling on edge, social anxiety, difficulty switching off, physical tension, or feeling overwhelmed by everyday demands.
Therapy can help you understand what may be contributing to your anxiety and develop ways of responding that feel more manageable.
Low mood and emotional difficulties
There are times when life can feel flat, heavy or difficult to navigate. You may be experiencing low mood, loss of motivation, changes in your sense of self, or emotions that feel difficult to understand or manage.
Therapy can provide space to understand what is happening and consider what might help.
Stress and pressure
Work, relationships, family responsibilities, health concerns and other demands can leave us feeling stretched beyond our capacity.
We can explore what is contributing to the pressure, how you are responding to it, and what may need to change.
Self-esteem, identity and patterns of coping
You may find yourself questioning who you are, how you see yourself, or whether you are living in a way that feels right for you. You may also notice patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, procrastination or difficulty setting boundaries that leave you feeling stuck or disconnected from what you need.
Therapy can offer an opportunity to explore the beliefs, experiences and relationships that have shaped these patterns, develop a clearer understanding of yourself, and consider different ways of responding.
Eating, body image and your relationship with food
Our relationship with food and our bodies can become complicated for many different reasons. You may find yourself caught in patterns of binge eating, restricting your food intake, emotional eating, or persistent concerns about your body or weight.
These patterns can be difficult to understand and can affect how you feel about yourself, your relationships and everyday life. Sometimes they develop as ways of coping with difficult emotions or experiences, and can be connected to how we have learned to relate to ourselves and other people.
Therapy can provide space to understand these patterns with greater compassion and curiosity, explore what may be contributing to them, and develop different ways of responding. We can also work towards developing a different relationship with food, your body and yourself.
Relationships
Our relationships can be a source of connection and support, but they can also be difficult.
You may be experiencing conflict, recurring patterns, difficulties communicating, uncertainty in a relationship, or challenges in connecting with other people.
Therapy can help you understand these patterns and consider different ways of relating to yourself and others.
Life transitions and change
Some periods of life involve changes we have chosen, while others are changes we never expected.
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Starting university, moving out of home, changes in work or relationships, becoming a parent, caregiving responsibilities, health changes, menopause, or shifts in identity can leave us questioning what comes next.
Therapy can provide space to make sense of change, understand what you are experiencing and consider how you want to move forward.
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Grief and loss
Loss can take many forms, and grief does not always follow a predictable path.
Whether you are grieving a person, relationship, way of life or something you had hoped for, therapy can provide space to process what has happened and find a way of living with what has changed.
Trauma and difficult experiences
Some experiences continue to affect us long after they have happened.
You may find yourself reacting strongly to particular situations, avoiding things that remind you of the past, or feeling that an experience has changed the way you see yourself or the world.
Therapy can provide a space to understand these responses and, where appropriate, work more directly with distressing or traumatic experiences.
When you're not sure what's wrong
You don't always need to be able to put a name to what you are experiencing.
Sometimes you simply know that something doesn't feel right, that you are struggling to move forward, or that the way you have been managing things is no longer working.
That can be enough reason to seek support.
Therapy can be a place to slow things down, understand what is happening and begin to work out what you need.
Clinical supervision
I offer individual clinical supervision for psychologists and other mental health practitioners.
Supervision provides space to step back from clinical work, reflect on the experiences and challenges that arise in therapy, and think carefully about your work with clients.
I offer a collaborative and reflective space to explore clinical questions, develop your practice and continue to grow as a practitioner.
You don't have to have everything figured out before you begin.
Sometimes you simply know that something doesn't feel right, that you are struggling to move forward, or that the way you have been managing things is no longer working. That can be enough reason to seek support. Therapy can be a place to slow things down, understand what is happening and begin to work out what you need.