Therapy is like looking out a window from our inner world, seeing everything that shaped us, as if it were never just coincidence after all.
I am an Attachment Psychotherapist, which means that I work creatively, and offer more than just words alone.
At times, we feel misunderstood. By ourselves. By others. A heavy weight sits on our shoulders, leaning over to our ear and whispers “I can’t carry this alone anymore.” That weight is full of heartbreak, burnout, love, loss and everything else in-between then and now.
In therapy, we begin to explore those hidden structures and quiet architecture of our relationships: with ourselves, with others. The stories buried deep within us, the unseen patterns woven through body and brain from babyhood to adulthood.
Science reminds us that speaking out loud matters. When thoughts stay tangled in the mind, it’s hard to find space between us and them. In therapy, this act, called “affect labeling” can soften the sharp edges of emotion by giving it language, while deepening the bond between therapist and client. This is where the work begins.
The Process
Get in touch
Send me an email or complete the contact form – I will be in touch within 24-hours. Together, we can work out if now is the right time for you. Wherever you are, I’ve got you.
Initial chat
I offer a free 15-minute chat, to give us a chance to get to know each other, what you would like from therapy, and work out if this is the right space for you.
Ongoing therapy
If it feels right, we will continue together weekly or bi-weekly. My rate is £45 per session.
Together, we will work through your goals at your pace, and check-in together regularly.
A Letter on Therapy
Therapy is the space between. The parts of us and our lives that are difficult to face in our world as is. Therapy provides a space without that niggling fear of ‘getting it wrong’, isolation, loss, or complete ‘stuckness’. We are continuously faced with pressures from work, anxieties about our health, losing people, gaining people, ups and downs in relationships, life stages and transitions, stigma and societal views, substances and medication, the online world and technology, addictions, childhood memories, pet loss, heartbreak, infidelity, infertility and everything else that appears messy, unpredictable and painful.
We don’t have mental health built into our curricula at school like we do physical education, food tech, language etc. It isn’t a given or naturally spoken of. Instead, we learn from our environment, our people, the emotional cues left for us to figure out. We learn to cope by what we have seen and have been given across our lives. Some learn better, some for worse. In the therapy room, there is no fixing, only finding. The parts of you that may hide behind humour, or flinch at warmth and closeness. Perhaps the one waiting to be left alone again.
A good therapist will be curious and work at your pace as you figure out together which parts of your chapters feel important to open. They will listen attentively, empathetically and with gentle challenge. Big emotions may rise to the surface, but by the end, you will return to ground level again in the safety of another. As any good therapist knows, with years of training, reading books and unfolding their own chapters, they have themselves had to elicit painful emotions like shame, fear and love, and so, they know that it isn’t easy, and not a quick process. That is why they will hold you unconditionally, with warmth and certainty that you will come back to balance, as you trust in them to turn each page of your chapter that may have been closed for a long time.
Therapy is hard graft, but together, we will hold those parts of you together with the care that it deserves. Whatever those parts are for you.
