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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A whole new way of working

 

No longer able to carry as many therapy clients, but still resident in the capitalist hellscape so need to find ways of earning money, I looked at what I'm good at, what I bring to a therapeutic encounter and kept coming back to three things:​

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1. Calm solidity - I help you ground.  I hold a gentle, soothing space

2. Great listening - it's my foundational skill

3. Creative and experimental thinking

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Add those to my values of non-judgement and acceptance, plus my lived experience of AuDHD and perimenopause and you have a wealth of empathy, dark humour and a feeling of "it's not just you".

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So I have created ways of working that are helpful to you and gentle on me - therapeutic coaching and constructive conversations.

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I also create resources in my newsletter and post videos on Instagram and YouTube.

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