Services
I offer a safe and non-judgemental space for working through difficult feelings and adverse experiences. Developing wellbeing and resilience through enhanced understanding of self and relationships.
Trauma • Transitions • Anxiety • Self-esteem • Bereavement
Parental Conflict • Identity • Self-harm
With adults, I offer individual counselling and parent work, helping parents to achieve fresh perspectives on issues and develop confidence in their parenting role, with the ultimate goals of strengthening parent-child relationships and improved family wellbeing.
Children
When children feel overwhelmed by big emotions or difficult circumstances, healthy development can become stuck, impacting wellbeing, behaviour, learning and/or relationships. Working with a variety of mediums, I invite them to tell their story in their own way; exploring their difficulties in a nurturing and contained environment.
Play therapy and creative work can provide powerful tools for expressing complex emotional material, particularly for children whose verbal and cognitive abilities are still in development. However, some children prefer to talk through their issues. My adaptive space and responsive approach empowers each individual to identify what feels most comfortable and appropriate for them.
Adolescents
Adolescence is a time of enormous transition as brains and bodies reconfigure and social roles shift with the move towards maturity. It’s a time that can feel perilous, pressured and full of big scary questions: Am I ok? Am I good enough?, Where do I fit in? Will I succeed?
Counselling (creative, play or talk based) can provide a safe space away from friends, family and school to work through these thoughts and feelings and build a grounded sense of self esteem and confidence. With this age-group I can work face to face or online depending on individual preference.
Adults:
Individual adult counselling
One-to-one counselling offers a protected space and an empathetic thinking relationship in which emotional difficulties and relational patterns can be explored with a view to developing self understanding and fresh perspectives.
Empowering parents to support their kids
The multifaceted parent-child relationship is always evolving and adapting to changing needs. At times this can be disorienting and the responsibility can feel overwhelming for parents. When a child or young person is struggling with difficult feelings, therapeutic parent support can have a profound impact on smoothing the tensions.