Throughout my professional life, I have been drawn to caring roles; across the NHS, the Police, and later as a Special Guardian. In each of these spaces, I found myself returning to the same quiet truth: I am most interested in people, their stories, their unspoken experiences, and the meaning and difficulties held beneath the surface.

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With many years spent in the NHS supporting people in emotional distress, and laterally as a Special Guardian to a child with developmental trauma and ADHD, I have lived the truth of  how heavy caring can be, and how quietly people can carry far more than anyone realises often unseen and unknown. I also have my own lived experience of bereavement, illness, loss, and trauma.

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All of these experiences have shaped the way I work now: with steadiness, curiosity, gentleness, humour and respect for the pace each person needs. I believe healing does not need to be rushed. It needs space.

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I hold Diplomas in Therapeutically Parenting the Traumatised child and Humanistic Counselling, weaving together professional training with lived understanding.

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I am drawn to deeper conversations, the places where words soften, where something honest begins to emerge, where vulnerability is met not with judgement, but with care. I have always been moved by writing and creativity. I have often felt “late to the party” in life, aware of something within me, but not always able to fully reach it. I know what it is to overwork, to over function, and to appear “fine” while something more complex is happening underneath.

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As a late-diagnosed AuDHD woman, I also understand re-calibrating your identity, tending grief, re-framing parenting, facing shame, and gaining self-understanding through training,  lived experience and self-compassion.

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 I have volunteered with the Samaritans, supported families through a parenting charity during the Covid pandemic, and worked within bereavement support.

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I continue to deepen my practice with a focus on trauma, neurodiversity and grief.

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What I offer is a steady, quiet space, where you do not need to arrive fully formed, or have the right words.

A space where your story can be spoken slowly, or not at all until you are ready.

A space where you are met as you are.

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If you are looking for somewhere you can feel safe enough to begin, you will be supported fully to explore what sits beneath the surface.

 

And when you are ready,  I would be honoured to work alongside you.

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