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Counselling availability: 

Children are seen in-school during school hours; adolescents during school hours or Tuesday after school; adults weekday daytimes or Tuesday evenings only. All work can be in-person or online. 

Clinic is near Ealing Broadway station, or can hire a space elsewhere if necessary. 

Not currently available other evenings or weekends.

Child and Young Person Counselling

I work with children and young people from age 4 up to 18. In some cases, where a young person is already in therapy with me as they approach adulthood, I can continue working with them beyond 18 years old.

Parent Work

I offer a dedicated space for parents and carers — whether single or as a couple — where your role as a parent and the challenges you're facing with your child remain central to the work. This is available whether or not your child is currently in therapy. 

Both my clinical experience and research strongly support this as an effective way to help parents better support their children.

Adult Counselling

I also now see adult clients more generally, including those who are not seeking support in a parenting capacity.

My Training

I trained in integrative child psychotherapy and have also completed two years of Gestalt psychotherapy for adults. Alongside this, I have a long background in arts and theatre in the community, which informs the creative, embodied way I work. In practice, I draw on a range of approaches and adapt how I work to the person in front of me.

Working with Everyone Around the Child

Children are part of a system — family, school, wider world — and I work with that in mind. Before therapy begins, I'll arrange a meeting with parents or carers and school where possible. We then meet to review progress roughly once a term. Everything your child shares stays private, except where I have a safeguarding concern (a concern that a child may be at risk of harm). With your child's permission, I may share what could be helpful for you or their teacher to know in reviews.

What Sessions Look Like

I take a creative, playful approach — with gentle humour — because that's often what allows a child to open up. I follow the child's lead at the start, with no fixed agenda. Over time, and at a pace that feels right for them, I build a formulation — a working picture of what is going on and why — and we begin to focus on what brought them to therapy. Goals are agreed together, between the child, their parent or carer, their teacher if relevant, and me.

The First Session

Before we begin, I'll have already met with parents or carers and school (and a social worker if involved), and agreed a time and number of initial sessions — usually four to six — to see together whether therapy feels like the right fit right now.

A parent or carer is welcome to join the first session if that helps your child feel safe. Otherwise, I'll meet your child gently — exploring the room, making a drawing, playing a simple game. I introduce myself and what I do, share a little of what I already know about them, and invite them to put me right if I've got anything wrong. With older children and young people, we might simply talk.

Alongside a parent or carer's consent, I also take verbal consent from the child themselves — because their willingness to be there matters from the very start. I follow their lead throughout. These early sessions are unhurried — and they often reveal a great deal about what the work ahead might look like.