You can book sessions from Monday to Friday 7am - 9pm upon availability. Weekends are only available upon request and are subject to an added weekend fee.

As a general rule, I work minimum on a weekly basis. However, it also depends on your needs, the nature of your problem, and who I have as a client, as I work differently with individuals, couples and polycules (network of consensual non-monogamous people).

Sessions with individuals are held weekly, or twice weekly. I do not offer fortnightly therapy when I work with individuals, as the process requires regular connection and holding, and anything less than a weekly meeting is not possible at this depth. Fortnightly work tends to be a catch up, rather than depth process work.

Sessions with couples are usually held both fortnightly with the couple, and weekly with each of you individually.

Sessions with polycules are usually held fortnightly, but it also depends on the services that are required and whether individuals want to see me separately and/ or as a group.

It depends on what outcomes you are seeking. If you wish to work on the underlying wounds and traumas that are causing symptoms and adverse coping strategies, so that you are not falling back into old patterns, and you wish to create sustainable healing and recovery, you need long-term therapy. As I only work at a deep level, I only accept clients who are willing to work with me for a minimum of 3 months without a limit to working longer.

Having said that, short-term counselling has an impact. Especially if you want a quick fix for a surface-level symptom, or support with an unhealthy coping strategy, (rather than getting to the root causes) then short-term therapy might be your choice.

A minimum is 12 weeks / 3 months. In this time frame we would seek to understand what drives current feelings and behaviours, but it’s not guaranteed that we will uncover the core. Some clients stay for months, and most for many years. The reason why I recommend long-term therapy is because your healing happens through the strength of the relationship we establish with each other over time. Trauma and wounds have been created through relationships, and can be only sustainably healed in relationships. The more safety and trust we have developed, the more your unconscious rises into your consciousness and makes sustainable change, growth and healing possible.

I work based on the understanding that you cannot change a pattern until you understand why you are behaving in certain ways. None of our patterns are wrong - in fact they are survival, defence mechanisms that have helped you to cope with trauma, wounding or conditioning.

At the root of addiction, depression and destructive relationship patterns, are unconscious beliefs about yourself, internalised oppressions, an inner critical voice that diminishes you and keeps you feeling small, and unreleased, unprocessed emotions that are now governing your every-day life. Once you start understanding yourself on a deeper level, and acknowledge how it really is, you have more capacity to experience change that endures and develop a nourishing relationship with yourself and those closest to you. You will have more choices, more resilience and live from a place of equanimity, where you respond to life and your relationships with emotional regulation rather than being driven by unconscious processes.

You will have your emotions, rather than them having you. You no longer live in reaction to life and know instinctively how to respond, intuitively, by experiencing significant breakthroughs, you will feel empowered, rather than overpowered by outdated, painful stories about yourself and others. In depth work, we make deep connections, rather than deep attachments.

I refer to trauma generally speaking as a psychological wound, which can be big and obvious as well as subtle and hidden. Trauma can happen on any of these levels: the physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual and cognitive realms.

Obvious traumas are physical violence, sexual violence, war, a car crash, a death, giving birth, or emotional neglect. Going through emotionally stressful and frightening events, which cause distress is also known as trauma.

Abandonment triggers a trauma response, divorce is a traumatic experience, even when both parties agree to separate. Coercive control is trauma and also witnessing domestic violence.

More subtle traumas are: having a parent who couldn’t regulate their emotions; a parent obsessed and focused on their appearance; not being allowed to experience certain emotions; not being seen, or heard; having a parent deny your reality, or chronically invalidate your feelings. A trauma can be learning that you are only loved, when you achieve something, rather than for being loved for who you are.

The problem with trauma is that it often creates beliefs about ourselves, which are subconsciously hijacking our conscious decision making. As long as we have unresolved trauma, we continue to act out in trauma-based patterns, or form unhealthy trauma bonds with others and repeat drama cycles. For people with attachment trauma, for example, being loved and accepted can be as terrifying as fearing rejection. We can project our traumas on to other people, which keeps us stuck in a painful cycle of self shaming or scapegoating others.

You do not need to have experienced trauma to work with me.

I hold an MA in creative writing therapy; a degree in addictions therapy; the highest level diploma in psychospiritual psychotherapy; a PG Certification with Pink Therapy working with diversity and LGBTQ communities and a diploma in Nature Therapy. I am training as a shamanic practitioner, a fourth level Paqo in the Q’ero, Andean tradition. And I am currently researching for my PhD in women, creativity and despair.

I am a published author on shame and trauma and presented my work at the first Trauma conference in Prague.

Unfortunately, we need to be in nature together for this to work. This means, for the nature therapy approach, I can only see clients who are either from the area or are willing to travel to see me for a session.

Nature therapy sessions can happen as we walk and talk and ‘just be’ in nature, either at the grounds of my home in Suffolk, on the border to Essex, or the surrounding woods, or we can sit down in an outside setting. I have a base-camp of chairs and a fire in the woods, where we can sit under the canopy of trees, or the stars. Getting back into contact with elements of fire and earth holds tremendous healing potential and helps us to reconnect with forgotten parts of ourselves.

We can discuss if nature therapy may be of benefit to you in our initial session. The same psychotherapeutic boundaries will still apply, and we will discuss confidentiality as we may meet other people whilst working outside.

I would be happy to add you to my waiting list, for when the time is right for you. I also offer a one-off bibliotherapy session, where I can guide you to which books to read and to work with your personal and spiritual development. A self-help solution to keep you connected to your inner self and work, until therapy feels right.

Yes, I do write reports for your doctor, probation officer, rehab, employer, solicitor or Judge when required. The fees for such a report are dependent on what is required, and will be provided on request.