My Approach is integrative, trauma-informed and highly individual. Rather than working from a single therapeutic model, I draw on psychotherapeutic theory, hypnotherapy and experiential approaches to develop an understanding of the person as a whole - their experiences, relationships, psychological patterns and the ways they have learned to adapt and protect themselves.

My Clinical Approach

I understand psychological distress within the wider context of a person's experiences rather than viewing symptoms in isolation.

Anxiety, panic, dissociation, intrusive thoughts or other distressing experiences can often be understood as responses that developed for a reason — ways in which the mind and nervous system have attempted to adapt, protect or manage experiences that at some point felt difficult or overwhelming.

Therapy therefore involves more than reducing symptoms. While symptom relief is an important part of therapeutic work, I am also interested in understanding what may be maintaining the difficulty and what the symptoms themselves may tell us about the person's experience.

Through a collaborative therapeutic relationship, we can develop greater understanding, psychological flexibility and choice, while working towards meaningful and sustainable change.

Clinical Experience

I have over six years' clinical experience in private practice, working with adults experiencing psychological difficulties including anxiety, panic, trauma-related distress, dissociation, depersonalisation, depression and intrusive thoughts.

I work both in person and online, with clients in Surrey, across the UK and internationally.

Working With Me

I see therapy as a collaborative process rather than one person “fixing” another.

My role is to bring psychological knowledge, clinical experience and therapeutic skill while remaining curious about your individual experience. Together, we develop an understanding of what is happening and create the conditions in which different ways of relating to yourself, your experiences and your life can become possible.

The therapeutic relationship is central to that process. I aim to provide a space in which you feel sufficiently safe to explore difficult experiences without judgement, while also being thoughtfully challenged where that may support the work.

The Role of Hypnotherapy in My Work

My training in hypno-psychotherapy remains an important part of my integrative practice.

Hypnotherapy can offer ways of working experientially with attention, imagery, emotional responses, embodied experience and processes that may not always be readily accessible through conscious reflection alone.

I do not view hypnotherapy as a separate or formulaic intervention. Where appropriate, it forms part of a broader psychotherapeutic process and is used according to the individual needs, history and therapeutic goals of the person I am working with.

Why I became a Psychotherapist

My decision to become a psychotherapist was influenced in part by my own experience of therapy in my twenties.

Experiencing first-hand the difference that thoughtful therapeutic work could make to anxiety and intrusive thoughts gave me an early appreciation of how powerful it can be to understand what is happening psychologically, rather than simply trying to make difficult thoughts or feelings disappear.

That experience ultimately led me to retrain professionally, completing advanced training in hypno-psychotherapy and subsequently developing my work as an integrative psychotherapist.

My own experience does not mean that I assume another person's experience will resemble mine. Rather, it contributed to a lasting respect for how individual psychological distress is — and for the importance of creating therapy around the person rather than asking the person to fit the therapy.

Professional Training & Qualifications

UKCP Accredited Integrative Psychotherapist

Advanced Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy
National College of Hypnosis & Psychotherapy

BA (Hons), Psychology & Media
University of Leeds

Professional Registrations
UKCP · CNHC · NSTT

The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is one of the UK's principal professional bodies for psychotherapy. Registration reflects extensive psychotherapeutic training and clinical practice and requires ongoing professional supervision, continuing professional development and adherence to established ethical and professional standards.

My clinical practice is supported by ongoing supervision, continuing professional development and further specialist study in trauma, dissociation and integrative psychotherapeutic approaches.

Beginning Therapy

Choosing a therapist is a personal decision, and feeling comfortable with the person you work with matters.

I offer an initial confidential consultation in which we can briefly discuss what has brought you to therapy, what you are hoping for from the process and whether working together feels appropriate.

There is no obligation to proceed.