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My availability is as follows:

• Tuesday morning at a practice in Farnham for in-person clients (weekly sessions)
• Monday mornings, either in-person or online
• Thursday mornings, either in-person or online (bi-weekly)

I am a relational, integrative counsellor that draws upon a number of different counselling modalities to best suit what comes up in the room in each moment. At the core of my work is a person-centred approach, but I draw particularly from psychodynamic, transactional analysis and CBT.

I am really interested in our patterns of behaviour, where they come from and how they serve us; so naturally this informs my work.  

Beneath all the theory though, I believe that the relationship between us is what really facilitates change; so that relational dynamic is central to the work.

I have also had a lot of experience with grief and bereavement, after working with a local hospice which enabled me to sit with people in their most vulnerable and painful moments.

I am curious about how our patterns of behaviour drive us and where these come from; I aim to help walk alongside people as they discover and uncover the patterns that have been shaping their lives. 

I aim to be there beside you, helping you to uncover these patterns and then support you in making the changes that feel right for you. Whilst I appreciate the role that our behaviours play, I am also interested in somatic work and helping people bring an awareness to the connection between body and mind.

Having come from a sporting and coaching background where adaptation is key, I am very flexible in my approach and am happy to work creatively with clients too. I appreciate the level of depth that can be reached when working creatively and feel that it can at times, open up doors that otherwise may remain shut, as words cannot always seem to unlock certain doors.

I am open to working with people on both a short term and longer term; open-ended basis, appreciating that everyone has different things that they hope to get from therapy. 

I believe that we're all unique and so our first session together will look different for everyone, however, at it's core that first session will see us exploring what it is that brought you to counselling and together we will work together to see how best I can support you. 

This first session will give us a chance to go over the therapeutic agreement, which I will send over to you via email in advance to read through (or we can do that together in person - that's your choice). 

The idea - in my practice - is that this first session gives us a chance to connect, to begin to build some rapport and to identify the best steps to take together moving forwards.