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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 

Face-to-Face (or online) at my comfortable, discrete and welcoming therapy room on Broad Street, Stamford, PE9.

As you're here, I guess life feels really difficult right now. Maybe you're struggling with anxiety, loss, sadness, stress, compulsive behaviour or anger? Maybe you are navigating a change, facing difficulties in relationships or feel like life lacks a sense of purpose?

Difficult experiences, thoughts and feelings like these are all part of life, but sometimes too much happens at once, our inner resources wear thin and old ways of coping no longer help, maybe even becoming part of the problem. When we feel isolated and feelings remain unexpressed, unexplored and unresolved, they can lead to overwhelming distress, or leave us feeling numb and cut off as we try to avoid the pain.

If any of this sounds familiar, my compassionate, supportive and relational approach to therapy offers a safe place to offload, explore feelings, thoughts and behaviours and ultimately understand yourself more deeply. As this process unfolds greater self acceptance emerges, hope returns and, at the right pace for you, steps may be taken towards a calmer, happier, more fulfilled way of being. 

I am a fully qualified psychotherapist/counsellor, with my core trainings being a Level 7 Post-graduate Certificate in Person Centred and Experiential Counselling & Psychotherapy and a Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. 

From personal experience, I know that choosing to open up and be vulnerable takes considerable courage. This may be the first time you've spoken about the things that hurt or trouble you most, so it’s my goal to help you feel as comfortable and safe as possible from the moment we first speak.

I'll listen to you fully, aiming to hear how things really are. No matter what, I’ll remain calm and support you to learn from and when needed, to regulate your own emotional and nervous system responses. 

I take a pluralistic stance to therapy, simply meaning that as well as my core relational approach, I offer support from other therapy perspectives. My aim is to tailor the therapy to you and your needs, as and when they become clear. This will all be done in collaboration - nothing will be done to you or forced upon you. This isn't to say there won't be challenge in our work together, but that it will emerge within a genuine, psychologically safe and deeply supportive relationship.

When needed and wanted I can support our work by sharing insights from contemporary neuroscience and trauma studies into how the mind and body relate, or by providing ideas and techniques to help you find a greater sense of calm, manage anxiety or become more anger aware. 

My comfortable, discrete and welcoming counselling room is on Broad Street, right in the centre of Stamford, Lincolnshire. There are plenty of nearby car parks and I can advise on places where street-parking is usually possible. 

I also offer online therapy.

Both short- and long-term therapy is available. 

The first session is a chance for us to get a sense of what it would be like to work together. From personal experience, I know this can seem an unnerving moment, so I’ll do all I can to help you feel as welcome, comfortable and relaxed as possible.

We'll need to create framework for your therapy, so we’ll briefly discuss and agree a contract between us. This provides a safe structure for our work together. 

Once this is done, the first session becomes more like a regular counselling session. I would invite you to speak at greater length about what brought you here: what’s been happening for you, how you’ve been feeling and what thoughts you’ve been struggling with.

We would then consider what would be most helpful to initially work on, and if it feels appropriate I’d help you come up with some initial aims for your therapy - nothing too rigid, but just enough for us to have a sense that we’re heading in a direction that’s genuinely helpful for you.

We’d then take a few minutes to discuss how the session has felt, and whether it feels right for us to start to working together. If for any reason it didn’t, I would then offer to help by providing alternative options for support.