The Heart of My Work

I believe extraordinary women become more fully themselves through lived experience that is truthfully reflected upon within a deeply accepting, authentic and boundaried therapeutic relationship.

My role is not to tell a woman who she should become.

My role is to accompany her as she becomes more fully herself.

Life remains the place where becoming happens.

Within the therapeutic relationship, life is truthfully reflected upon.

Through that reflection, reorganisation becomes possible.

Every truthful conversation has the potential to reorganise something within.

Through hundreds of tiny reorganisations, women gradually become more fully themselves.

I Didn't Choose This Work

If you had asked me in 1996 where my work would eventually lead, I couldn't have told you.

I didn't set out to specialise in extraordinary women.

I didn't choose a niche.

I simply began listening.

One woman arrived.

Then another, and then another.

For nearly three decades I have had the privilege of accompanying women as they made sense of their lives, navigated heartbreak, survived impossible situations, rediscovered themselves and became more fully themselves.

Over time I noticed something remarkable.

The women who found me often looked as though they had everything under control.

They were leading teams, raising families, running businesses, caring for others and contributing enormously to the world.

Yet many were privately carrying stories of shame, silencing, grief, coercion, loneliness, impossible responsibility and extraordinary resilience.

Again and again they arrived believing there was something wrong with them.

Again and again I discovered there wasn't.

Without ever intending to...

this became my work.

Not because I chose it.

Because the women kept finding me.

And I kept paying attention.

 

What The Women Taught Me

For nearly three decades, extraordinary women have shaped my understanding of people more than any textbook ever could.

They have taught me about courage.

About shame.

About creativity.

About humour.

About grief.

About resilience.

About love.

About becoming.

Everything I now write, teach and create has grown from thousands of conversations with women who trusted me with their lives.

I have learnt as much from them as they have ever learnt from me.

 

My Professional Background

For nearly three decades I have had the privilege of accompanying women from many different walks of life, both in person and online, across the UK and internationally.

My work has included psychotherapy, counselling, coaching, mentoring, supervision, training and facilitating therapeutic and creative groups.

Alongside my private practice, I worked extensively within the NHS in primary care, supporting adults experiencing a wide range of emotional, relational and psychological difficulties.

My experience has also included working within the domestic abuse sector, accompanying women rebuilding their lives after coercion, violence and profound trauma.

Over the years I have worked with women from many different professions, cultures and life experiences, including women rebuilding their lives after displacement, conflict and persecution.

Everything I have created has grown from thousands of therapeutic conversations, creative experiences and deeply human relationships.

I remain committed to ongoing professional development, ethical practice, reflective supervision and offering women a deeply accepting, authentic and boundaried therapeutic relationship.


BACP Accredited Counsellor

Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)