My journey to where I am now.
My work as a counsellor is shaped by a combination of academic training, years of therapeutic experience, and meaningful personal milestones. Both my professional roles and my own journey through loss have taught me the importance of compassion, understanding, and giving people space to find their voice. The sections below offer a deeper look into what has brought me here.
My professional journey.
I began my Person Centred counselling training with a genuine desire to understand people and support them through difficult moments in life. My experience includes voluntary work in counselling organisations, creative therapeutic work within NHS settings and supporting individuals with multiple and complex needs in community services. I also developed a strong grounding in Solution Focused practice and worked with people facing a wide range of challenges.
In time I established my own practice where I offer an empathic and non-judgemental space for people to talk about whatever they are facing. This may include anxiety, depression, grief, major life decisions or simply feeling stuck. I see counselling as a shared journey and walk alongside people as they make sense of their experiences and find a way forward. My background across different therapeutic environments shapes the understanding and compassion I bring to each session.
2012
I began my counselling journey.
2013 - 2016
Master's degree in Clinical Counselling at the University of Chester
2014 - 2020
Commenced voluntary role at Compass Counselling in Liverpool.
2016
I volunteered for the NHS as art/creativity facilitator.
2017
Voluntary Solution Focused Practitioner at the Psychological Therapies Unit.
2018 - 2020
Procured by the Whitechapel Centre in Liverpool
2018 - Now
I opened my own private practice and have been seeing clients online and face to face.
My personal journey.
In 2005, as a forty year old mother of one, I suffered a miscarriage just one day prior to the long awaited 3 months scan when we'd planned to share our good news with everyone, not just close family, which led to a silence around what had happened. Each of us hold our own meaning to a loss of this kind, there are no rights and wrongs: for some it may be received as nature taking it's course; others can feel a huge sense of relief of an unwanted pregnancy coming to an end; my experience was of sadness. I felt no-one really understood what it meant to me, I found it difficult to talk about my feelings, and felt ashamed that I couldn't get over it.
