Counselling
From September 2026, I will also be offering Person-Centred Counselling alongside my Somatic Sexology practice.
Person-Centred Counselling is a relational form of therapy that creates space for you to explore your thoughts, emotions, experiences, relationships, and sense of self in a way that feels supportive, compassionate, and non-judgemental.
Person-Centred therapy is rooted in the belief that people already hold the capacity for growth, healing, self-understanding, and change when given the right conditions of safety, empathy, honesty, and acceptance.
My approach is warm, grounded, relational, queer-affirming, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive.
Areas I may support clients with include:
Shame and self-worth
Anxiety & depression
Addiction
Identity and sexuality
Grief and relational change
Sexual trauma and its impact on relationships and self-trust
Late-life coming out and identity exploration
Boundaries, people-pleasing, and relational patterns
Navigating life transitions and becoming more authentically yourself
Many of my clients are LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, or navigating experiences of identity, sexuality, intimacy, grief, or relational complexity.
How I work
Counselling sessions are talk-based therapy and held online via Zoom, lasting 50 minutes.
My approach is collaborative and paced around you. There is no expectation to have everything figured out before beginning, and no pressure to speak about anything before you are ready.
I aim to create a space where you can explore yourself more honestly, safely, and compassionately, especially if you have spent much of your life adapting, suppressing parts of yourself, or trying to survive by being who others needed you to be.
This work can sometimes feel challenging, tender, liberating, messy, or transformative. We move at a pace that feels manageable and supportive for your nervous system and emotional capacity.
While counselling sessions are primarily talking-based, I also have a particular interest in Focusing-oriented therapy and creative therapeutic practices. Both are part of the person-centred therapeutic approach.
Focusing is a gentle, person-centred approach that attends to the felt sense of experience within the body and metaphore, helping clients slow down, notice themselves more deeply, and connect with emotions, meaning, and inner knowing that can sometimes be difficult to access through words alone.
Where appropriate and supportive, I may also offer to integrate creative practices. These approaches are always collaborative, optional, and guided by each client’s individual process and needs.
Professional training and ethics
I am currently completing supervised level 5 clinical training in Person-Centred Counselling and will qualify in Summer 2026.
I work within the BACP ethical framework for counselling work and am recognised as a trainee Counsellor by the BACP.
My wider background of six years as a Somatic Sexologist, working with embodiment, anti-oppressive practice, sexuality, gender and sexual trauma, informs my understanding of the relationship between body, identity, sexuality, relationships, shame, and emotional well-being. Counselling is distinctly different from Somatic therapy as it is non-directive and excludes any body-based work.
If you are looking for a grounded, affirming, trauma-informed counselling space where you can explore identity, sexuality, shame, relationships, grief, or authenticity with honesty and care, you’re welcome here.