About Me

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophy

I love my work and derive enormous satisfaction from helping clients create a better quality of life.  I offer a warm, cosy therapeutic environment that’s empathic, non-judgmental and client-focused.  At my practice, you’ll also find the kettle is always on 🙂

My practice is built on a foundation of developing a good rapport and strong working alliance with my clients. Together, we actively create therapy plans through collaborative assessment, goal setting and ongoing feedback. Goals are continually refined and revised to optimise outcomes. As I believe lasting change is an everyday process, I often set homework tasks and suggest resources (e.g. books, audio books, documentaries, podcasts, apps etc) for between sessions.

As a Clinical Psychologist, I use evidence-based strategies shown to be clinically effective for both individuals and Couples Therapy.  Strategies derive mostly from Positive Psychology, Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT), Psycho-biological Couples Therapy (PACT), Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Behaviour Sex Therapy and the use of clinical hypnosis. In addition to clinical skills, my background in medical science, small business and volunteer organisations has definitely created a holistic therapeutic approach, which is very practical, integrative and skills based.

Overall, I strive to improve clients’ happiness and resilience by tapping into personal strengths, building coping skills and breaking unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaving.  Naturally, clients’ individual goals, personality and circumstances determine specific strategies, therapeutic time frames and projected outcomes.  With this in mind, clients also choose the session length and frequency which works best for them.

By special request, my empathic doggie co-therapist Patsy, is very happy to assist! She especially loves doing Couples Therapy !!