Areas of Support

Experiences of sexual or emotional abuse can have a profound, lasting impact on your mental health, your relationships, and your sense of self.

These deep wounds can stay with you for a very long time. Trauma has a way of resting quietly beneath the surface and showing up in unexpected ways in your daily life. It might feel like a sudden, unexplainable wave of anxiety, a harsh inner voice that criticises your every move, or a natural instinct to protect yourself that makes it hard to trust or let people close. Even when the abuse happened long ago, its echoes can still affect how safe, secure, and comfortable you feel in your body and your life right now.

Whether these experiences belong to your past or your present, trying to process what happened can feel frightening and intensely overwhelming, but please know you don't have to go through this by yourself.

I work in a trauma-informed way, always following your lead. There is never any pressure to share more than you are ready to. What happened to you was not your fault, and healing is possible.

Domestic abuse takes many forms — physical, emotional, psychological, financial, and sexual.

It can be difficult to recognise from the inside, and harder still to talk about. If you have experienced or are experiencing abuse, please know that what has happened to you is not your fault.

Whether you are navigating the overwhelming confusion of a current dynamic or untangling the trauma of a past one, the impact can deeply distort your sense of reality. These experiences are not always confined to close or romantic relationships; abuse can come from family members, caregivers, or others who hold power over you. For some, an abusive dynamic carries an unsettling familiarity that echoes a childhood home where love and fear sat close together. For others, it is a shocking, entirely new experience that shatters their perception of safety. Recognising these dynamics — whenever, however, or with whomever they began — can be incredibly painful, yet that awareness is often where the cycle breaks, real change begins, and true healing takes root.

I offer a safe, confidential space to talk about your experience at your own pace. We can work together to understand what you have been through, rebuild your sense of yourself, and consider your options — putting your choices and your voice at the centre of our work.

Eating disorders — including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and weight struggles — are deeply complex. The way we interact with food is rarely just about food itself; it often develops as a way to cope with overwhelming emotions, pressures, or a lack of control. Ultimately, the behaviour is just the visible part of a much deeper story. While these struggles look different for everyone, the underlying pain is very similar. You might be navigating chaotic eating, a harsh inner critic, or the heavy weight of perfectionism and low self-worth. As a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders and Obesity, I look at the whole picture with you, not just the symptoms.

True recovery means restoring your physical health, settling nutritional imbalances, and holding space for the emotional struggles you carry. Hand-in-hand, we will unpack the exhausting thoughts that make behaviours like binging, purging, or over-exercising feel out of control, while collaborating with other healthcare professionals where helpful to ensure your care is fully joined up.

My goal is to quiet that constant food worry so you can redirect your energy toward what brings you joy. I am here to support you through those difficult feelings, helping you build meaningful relationships, discover your values, and find a sense of purpose — without needing food to cope. Recovery is completely possible, and you deserve a relationship with food and your body that feels truly peaceful.

Being neurodivergent — whether you have ADHD, autism, or another neurological difference — brings its own unique strengths and its own distinct challenges.

Many neurodivergent people arrive in therapy after years of masking to meet expectations that don't fit their natural way of being, or after internalising the idea that they were somehow a problem without ever knowing the true, valid reasons behind their struggles.

That history impacts how we connect. Growing up misunderstood by the people around you leaves its own profound mark — not only on your confidence, but on how safe it feels to let down your guard and truly be yourself with others.

I work in a neurodiversity-affirming way, meeting you exactly as you are and seeing your neurological difference as a natural variation rather than a deficit to be corrected. Together, we can explore strategies that work with your mind rather than against it, while creating a safe, relational space where you can let go of the mask and build a kinder relationship with who you are.

Anxiety can manifest in many ways: persistent worry, physical tension, panic attacks, or a background sense of dread that is difficult to put into words. It can attach itself to something specific, or seem to arrive without any obvious cause.

In therapy we can look at what is creating your anxiety, not only at managing its symptoms — and that often means looking further back than the situation in front of you. Anxiety frequently has its origins in earlier experience, where staying alert was genuinely the safest way to be. What was once a necessary adaptation can remain switched on long after the circumstances have gone.

Together we can understand those roots, find practical strategies that help in the moment, and build a steadier relationship with your own mind.

You do not have to live in a constant state of worry. With the right support, calmer days are possible.

Depression can make everything feel incredibly heavy — from getting out of bed in the morning to staying connected with the people who care about you, or finding any real sense of purpose in the day. It is a profoundly isolating and exhausting experience, one that often comes with a harsh, relentless inner commentary that whispers you are not doing enough or makes reaching out for support feel completely undeserved.

Therapy offers a gentle, non-judgmental space where you do not have to pretend to be okay or force yourself to put on a brave face. Together, we can work carefully to understand what sits underneath how you are feeling. Sometimes it is a reaction to an overwhelming current situation, and sometimes it is tied to something much longer-standing — such as a deep-seated belief about your own worth that was formed so early in life, it now simply feels like an unchangeable fact.

Finding your way through depression is absolutely possible, even if it feels far out of reach right now. It does not usually happen overnight, but many people find that having a consistent, compassionate space to be completely honest in — without the fear of being a burden — is one of the most powerful and transformative steps they can take toward feeling like themselves again.