Giving you the confidence to grow
Walking in your footsteps
I listen with genuine empathy, taking the time to truly understand your world. By gently stepping into your shoes, I can better appreciate the thoughts and feelings that shape your life.
Together, we’ll explore how you connect with others and how they connect with you. This shared understanding helps us nurture a supportive and trusting therapeutic relationship, where growth and healing can naturally unfold.
My approach
Person-Centred Approach
I believe that you are the expert in your own life and want to understand what matters most to you.
A person-centred approach means:
My choices matter – you decide what feels right for you.
My voice is heard – we listen without judgement.
My goals guide the way – we support you to work towards what’s important to you.
My strengths are valued – we focus on what you can do, not just the challenges you face.
Together, we create a way of being, that focuses on your needs, preferences, and hopes for the future.
Attachment Theory
Attachment styles are primarily formed during infancy and early childhood through interactions with primary caregivers.
These interactions, particularly the caregiver's responsiveness to the child's needs, shape a child's expectations about relationships and influence their behaviour in later life.
Attachment Styles
A secure attachment develops when caregivers are consistently attuned to the child's needs.
Insecure attachment styles (anxious, avoidant, or disorganised) can emerge when caregivers are inconsistent or unavailable.
Transactional Analysis is a way of understanding ourselves and the way we relate to others. It looks at:
How we think, feel, and behave – helping us to notice the different behaviours and feelings within our personality.
How we communicate – so we can see our patterns in the way we interact with others.
Our “life script” – the story we started writing in childhood that still influences how we live today.
Many of us repeat old patterns from childhood without realising it. Our habits can cause us stress, conflict, or unhappiness. By becoming aware of these behaviours, we have the choice to change them and experience a sense of empowerment.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a gentle and compassionate approach that recognises we all have different “parts” within us. These parts often develop to protect us or the desire to help us cope with stressful or traumatic experiences.
Some parts, known as “managers”, try to keep us safe and in control. Other, often younger parts may carry painful feelings or memories and are known as “exiles”. IFS helps us understand and listen to our shut down parts with curiosity and compassion, rather than feeling criticised or judged.
This approach can help us to make sense of unhelpful patterns that you may have adopted in earlier times. As a result this can reduce self criticism with the aim to to heal from past experiences. At the heart of IFS is the belief that we all have a calm and compassionate core core self which can help our parts feel safer and guide us towards greater balance and self-acceptance.
What can I expect?
Face-to-face and online counselling to help overcome the challenges you are experiencing.
My style encourages open conversation without barriers. Together, we will focus on what has brought you to counselling now and we will reflect on the issues you are facing.
My goal is to provide you with an individual experience, where perhaps for the first time you feel heard and understood in a safe space, free from judgement.
What next?
I offer a free 20-minute consultation, which can take place over Zoom or by phone.
This gives us an opportunity to explore what has brought you to counselling and how I may be able to support you. It’s also a chance for you to ask any questions and for me to explain how I work.
If you decide to continue, the next step is a 1-hour initial session. Ongoing sessions will then be 50 minutes each.
You can then decide if my approach feels right for you.
Online
Initial Assessment (1 hour) £70.00
Standard Counselling Session (50 mins) £70.00
*Block of 6 Sessions - £350
In-person (Olney)
Initial Assessment (1 hour) £70.00
Standard Counselling (50 mins) £70.00
*Block of 6 Sessions - £350
*Six sessions rate must be purchased in advance
Concessionary rate available for counselling students - £45 per session.
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