Life can be hard, especially so in recent times - that’s probably why you’re here, everything has gotten tougher - if you have suffered with low self-esteem, anxiety, depression or the effects of emotional or physical abuse, you may have felt worse during this time and maybe it seemed like there was no help available? I specialise in helping those with low self-esteem, for whatever reason, those harmed by emotional or physical abuse, either in childhood or more recently, and clients suffering with trauma.

I have undergone long-term therapy myself and know what it feels like, and what it brings up - you will not be alone in this process. I know it’s not easy, opening up about your troubles, but you should expect to be treated with compassion and respect, you will not be judged here. I continue to attend weekly therapy - I do not believe I can ask you to do something I am not doing myself.

I am fully trained in online work, undertaking full ACTO (Association for Counselling & Therapy Online) training. It is imperative that I can maintain the equivalent safety, security and level of psychotherapeutic benefit in online sessions, as those in the consulting room.

Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis

Life today can feel overwhelming—our inner world often takes a backseat to the endless demands of work, relationships, and societal pressures. It's easy to feel lost, disconnected, or unsure why certain patterns keep repeating themselves. Psychodynamic counselling offers a quiet, reflective space to begin untangling these knots. With a compassionate and attuned therapist, you can explore longstanding feelings, unconscious influences, and unresolved experiences that may be shaping your emotional life.

This form of therapy isn’t about quick fixes—it’s about deep understanding. It helps you uncover the roots of your behaviours and emotions, making sense of how your past continues to echo in the present. Through thoughtful insight and a trusting therapeutic relationship, you begin to rewrite familiar stories, discover new possibilities, and connect more fully with your authentic self. You don’t need to face these questions alone—psychodynamic therapy invites you to be met with patience, empathy, and a genuine curiosity about who you are.

Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Sometimes, we seek therapy not for an open-ended journey, but for support with a specific concern that feels pressing right now. Short-term psychodynamic counselling offers a focused and structured space to explore current challenges, while also making connections to the deeper emotional patterns rooted in your past. Whether long-term therapy doesn’t fit your circumstances or you simply want to concentrate on one area of your life, this approach can be both effective and accessible. Together, we’ll tailor a course of sessions to suit your needs—checking in regularly to ensure the work feels meaningful and attuned. It’s a chance to begin shifting long-standing dynamics with clarity and purpose, in a timeframe that respects your life as it is.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

When life feels overwhelming, sometimes you just want a clear path forward—and CBT delivers exactly that. It's a highly effective, solution-focused approach backed by strong research, aimed at helping you feel better, faster. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, or struggling to speak up for yourself, CBT gives you tools you can start using right away. It’s all about identifying unhelpful thought patterns, shifting your responses, and building habits that work in everyday life. Therapy doesn’t have to be endless—CBT is structured, practical, and tailored to help you regain control and confidence, one session at a time.

Couples & Partnership Counselling

Whether you're in a traditional couple facing recurring conflict, or someone who struggles to form or sustain meaningful relationships, therapy can offer a path forward. Relationship challenges—whether around communication, intimacy, emotional safety, or the pain of betrayal—can feel isolating, but they don’t have to be faced alone. Drawing on insights from the Gottman Method, Tony Real’s focus on emotional truth, and Ellyn Bader’s developmental model, we explore how relationships evolve and how partners can grow both together and apart.

Early attachment patterns can help uncover why we seek or avoid closeness, and how our childhood experiences shape our adult relationships. Sometimes, we unknowingly project parts of ourselves onto our partner—seeing them as a mirror of past dynamics, rather than meeting them as they truly are. These unconscious processes can fuel conflict or confusion, yet once they’re made visible, they offer rich opportunities for transformation and healing.

Therapy may begin with individual sessions—giving space for each person to speak their truth—before coming together to negotiate, reconnect, and move forward with mutual respect. If infidelity has occurred, our work isn’t about assigning unnecessary blame but about understanding, repair, and creating a new chapter built on clarity and choice. Everyone deserves a space where their truth can be spoken and heard.

Sex & Relationships Therapy

Relationships don’t always follow conventional paths—and they don’t need to. Whether you're exploring polyamory, non-monogamy, open dynamics, chosen families, kink-informed relating, or simply navigating something that doesn’t fit the standard mould, you are welcome here. Therapy is a space where whatever you bring—no matter how it might sit outside societal norms—is met with openness, curiosity, and respect.

Many people in diverse relationship structures come to therapy seeking clarity around agreements, emotional safety, jealousy, intimacy, or shifting identities. You might feel stuck in a dynamic that’s hard to name, or unsure how to communicate needs and boundaries that challenge tradition. In our work together, we’ll look at how present-day relationship experiences echo early attachment patterns or unconscious beliefs, and how deeper understanding can help you move toward the kind of connection you actually want.

You may choose to begin alone, to explore your own reality and emotional truth first, before entering shared sessions with partners. That’s often an essential step—because everyone has the right to their own story, their own language, and their own way of loving. In this space, there’s no template you need to fit—just a commitment to supporting whatever version of relationship makes sense for you.

Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy

Neurodiversity isn’t something that needs to be explained away or reshaped to fit someone else’s version of “normal.” In our work together, the focus isn’t on conformity—it’s on helping you feel more comfortable in yourself, and in the relationships that matter to you. You may be navigating sensory sensitivity, social fatigue, communication differences, or just a sense of being out of sync with the world around you. Therapy offers a space to explore those experiences without needing to mask or perform. For couples, we look at how neurodivergence interacts with intimacy, co-regulation, and relational expectations—working to understand each person's rhythm, needs, and way of connecting. There’s no one-size-fits-all way to live or love, and my job isn’t to mould you into someone else’s ideal. It’s to offer you space, patience, and thoughtful insight as you move toward relationships and self-understanding that actually feel right—for you.

How much does therapy cost?

Sessions last 50 minutes, are usually once a week and cost from £60 - £90, depending on income. Couples and Partners sessions are charged at £110. An initial assessment appointment is charged at £90 and £110 for couples.

Arrangements are made for those on lower incomes, where business circumstances allow - in practice this means that there are a set number of reduced fee sessions available. Please contact me for further information.

What to expect when you contact me?

Firstly we'll have a brief chat on the phone, video call or by email to discuss your concerns and arrange a time and day for your initial assessment. At this assessment, you will have space to talk about what has brought you to therapy and ask any questions about the process. You might want to know more about me, that’s perfectly reasonable.. but - you’re the important one in the sessions. The most important thing is that you feel comfortable and safe. We will then decide together how long you'd like therapy for and agree a weekly or fortnightly appointment that fits with you.

The Listening Practice is not an emergency service. If you are in crisis right now please contact The Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on 116123 (UK). This number is free to call. If you feel you might harm yourself or others please call 999 and ask for an ambulance.

I support an outright ban on Conversion Therapy in the UK - please visit www.banconversiontherapy.com/support to join me in protecting LGBTQ+ members of our society from this torturous practice.

COUPLES, INDIVIDUAL & PARTNERS ONLINE THERAPY FROM AN EXPERIENCED PRACTITIONER / ACTO & BACP REGISTERED.