Always a listener in my teenage years, I found myself in my mid-twenties, depressed, disillusioned with work life and completing various college courses to try and escape the drudgery I felt working in administration.  

 

Completing my BSc at Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute in 2017 I began my private practice soon after.

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My greatest learning from this degree was about love, relationships and attachment theory (more here).  Essentially, what makes us human.

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Since qualifying I embarked on training to 'take therapy outdoors' in September 2019 and began seeing clients outside early in 2020 - perfect timing really! 

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The space that the summer of 2020 allowed in terms of reducing social contact and the related sensory stimulation I followed the niggling suspicion I was autistic, researching, corroborating and finally comfortably self-diagnosing and 'coming out' by summer of 2022.  And I got my 'official' NHS diagnosis of autism in winter 2024.​

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Moving to Sheffield in 2023 and successfully building a private practice I entered 2025 feeling burnt out.  I put my energetic struggles down to moving and the adjustment of the reality of being disabled by my autism. Turns out I'm also perimenopausal!​​​​​

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I've reduced my caseload significantly these last two years to help recover from burnout and I'm ready to take new clients on.  I've had time to look at what works for me as an autistic therapist, what I need as someone going through tremendous hormonal upheaval, and what I'm good at and want to offer you.

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