What do you want from therapy? What main issues face you today?
Are you are looking for life to be different, to feel more content, calm and clear in your mind, Perhaps you are seeking support to help you find a new direction and purpose in life.
Maybe it is hard at this moment to clearly define what you want - it could be you have noticed for a while a feeling of unease, a low mood, not feeling quite as fun and happy as you used to.
Or you may know where you are struggling, yet do not have the answers to move beyond the struggles and into thriving in life again. Whatever it is, I hope to help you discover what you need and be with you through the difficult feelings and thoughts about your life. A relational psychotherapy is a collaborative process that can be rewarding and provide a real path back and feelings of new beginnings in life again.
Are you struggling with ADHD/ADD? those who receive a late diagnosis in life often go through a stage of extra reflection with feelings and thoughts on life experience. This with the nagging question of “what now? how can I make the best of life now with all that I know”.
For the last ten years I have been working in this field and have a very nuanced approach to understanding what it is to be you - what are you biggest challenges that you struggle with. Helping you with your feelings and thoughts I provide additional bespoke to you techniques that can help you also have a system in place that works for you. These are not generic tools they are very much down to understanding the intricacies and uniqueness of the individual. Overwhelmed, repeated cycles of burn out and feelings of low self esteem, difficulties in coping with demands of ‘to dos’ in life learning to low mood | depression.
Perimenopause - Menopause and ADHD Combo is a double whammy for women when hormones start to fluctuate and change. There can be an increase in existing adhdness; brain fog, forgetfulness, frightened to do things | stuck paralysis and fatigue. Hormonal changes are hard enough as it is, yet for those with ADHD/ADD you may find your existential thoughts about life and how to stay afloat increasing. It can be a really tough time and the feelings that emanate out if it, can be very debilitating and depressing to face too.
( * I have personal lived experience in this area and in my family. Whilst we are all different do know it is a genuine passion of mine to help others with neurodiversity).
Sexuality| Gender questioning | LGBTQ+ Society some may say is going backwards in acceptance of diverse ways of being. Ignorance, prejudice and negative comments from others do exist, and over long periods of time can impact our emotional state and sense of belonging and self confidence.
I am a LGBTQ + therapist myself. This can help greatly in having good rapport, offering beneficial relational qualities which is an important element for successful therapy.
Wherever you are in life, however you identify, I am here to listen and support you.
Modalities trained in
Humanistic Integrative Relational & Psychodynamic
Associations WPI, HIPC, UKPC
Life and career existential thoughts. There comes a point during certain decades of our life, where we end up looking back at what path we took and why? some contain regrets, some sadness about what didn’t happen as well as what did. Making the most of the now and your future with purpose intent and contentment is a common theme I sit with in the therapy room with people. The question and answer to coming to terms with what is and what now if I want things to change.
Bereavement| Loss | Grief Painful emotional states arise that oscillate from anger one day to deep sadness the next. Not just on death do we enter the place of loss and grief, it also happens in long term relationships and friendships that have abruptly ended. How can we get through to the other side and believe in hope and happiness again.
Relationships There are many complexities that arise in close relationships. From sexual intimacy to losing ones own sense of self. Some people end up in a pattern of feeling like all relationships fail eventually. Therapy can help immensely in helping understand healthy connection and being able to see how to make positive changes. Whether poly, open or monogamous therapy can help in many aspects that arise from relationships.
I work with a wide range of clients and issues, such as depression, anxiety, existential mid-life questioning and relationships
I also work with LGBTQ clients, and adult ADHD/AUTISM/ this includes my work for Talk to The Rainbow clients, a LGBTQ therapist service in Bristol and London.
Having a therapist who understands what life is like with a Neurodivergent brain can often result in a quicker and trusting positive productive therapeutic relationship.
I work online video as well to cover people who live in other locations across the UK and Europe, this is in addition to my main Bristol base.
I am neuroscience trauma trained and this informs my work. This includes connecting the ‘felt’ sense and embodied world so mind-body sensory nervous system is included alongside emotional regulation and cognitive understanding. Research now in this field shows the importance of our body’s memories and connecting our full sensory world to heal and to help live life more integrated in the now.