About Me

My training and experience …

I am a qualified humanistic counsellor with an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy. I began studying in 2015, whilst working full-time, and I’m a registered with three ethical bodies:

UKATA
EATA
NCPS

I am working towards becoming a Certified Transactional Analyst.

I have completed over a thousand hours of training, supervision and continuous professional development and have acquired over seven hundred clinical hours supporting people with a wide range of psychological struggles.

Since 2021 I have been counselling people for award-winning Kent Association for the Blind (KAB) who are under contract to Kent County Council to support visually impaired NHS patients. The KAB’s last award was given in March 2025 for innovative approaches to prevention awarded by Healthwatch Kent.

I was a Mental Health First Aider between 2019 and 2024. I have supported and coached people with a neurodiversity diagnosis.

Between 2017 and 2020 I volunteered in the NHS counselling people at GP surgery with a variety of long term physical and mental health disorders including disordered personalities and disordered eating habits.

In 2018 I worked West Kent YMCA to helping vulnerable teens and young adults.

A selection of my training includes:

Neuro-Affirming ADHD Couples Therapy: Therapeutic Themes and Interventions course (2025)
Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy With Autistic Clients (2025)
Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training (2025)
Level 7: Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy (2025)
Understanding ADHD (2024)
Certificate in Working with the Body (2023)
Level 2: Understanding Autism course (2022)
BACP / OU Working online course (2020)
Working with Groups (2019)
Difference and diversity (2019)
Mental Health First Aider (2019)
Advanced Counselling skills (2017)
Transactional Analysis – Foundation Certificate (2016)
Transactional Analysis 101 (2015)

My approach…

Most counsellors and psychotherapists work on a blank slate principle, with you the client knowing very little about the counsellor as a person. There are some very good clinical reasons why this approach works for a range of different counselling and psychotherapy modalities. My approach is to provide a bit of my background to help you understand if you want to work with me.

My role is to help you, through my training and our relationship, to gently help you grow into the best version of you. My feelings are that we are all human with good parts and bad parts. Building the trust needed to allow you to be vulnerable takes time and can be helped with you knowing more about me. If this sounds good to you it would be great to see how we can work together.

If that doesn’t sound like what you are after, then that is great too. This may be the first step you need in the awareness of finding the right support. The important thing is to trust your gut and work with an approach you feel is right for you.

If you are not sure what is right for you then try talking to different therapists until you find the right one. People change so as you grow you may find your needs in a therapist change too. You deserve the best so take the time to get the right relationship for you.

A flavour of who I am…

I spent the first decade of my life in Botswana, growing up as a white child in a black country, with the height of apartheid regime next door in South Africa. I moved to the UK in 1987 when I was ten years old and I continue to have family and friends in Gaborone. My father was a quantity surveyor who had been to public boarding school and my Mum was a children’s nurse who emigrated from Netherlands in her late teens. I’ve lived in North East and South East of the UK and have travelled a fair bit around the world.

I have a 2:1 degree in English and History and worked for over 23 years in the finance and health insurance industry, helping people through a variety of sales, coaching, project management and operational roles.

I am type 1 diabetic and have dyslexia which really helps me appreciate the challenges of living in a modern world with ‘labels’ that could control how we have to live and how the world perceives us.

To relax I enjoy cooking, walking, reading, singing, cinema and listening to podcasts.