My work as a counsellor is grounded in evidence-based psychology - and guided by genuine human connection.

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I take an integrative approach, which means I don’t believe one therapy fits every person or every season of life. Instead, I draw from a range of well‑established therapeutic modalities and thoughtfully tailor our work to you - your nervous system, your experiences, your values, and what feels manageable right now.​​

​While I bring clinical knowledge and structure, I also believe that healing happens within safety, warmth, and feeling truly understood. You won’t be treated as a diagnosis or a checklist - you’ll be met as a whole person.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. CBT can help you understand how certain thinking patterns - often developed as protective responses over time - may be contributing to anxiety, stress, low mood, or feeling stuck. Together, we gently explore these patterns and work on developing more supportive and flexible ways of responding.

In our sessions, CBT is used collaboratively and compassionately - not to force positive thinking, but to help you:

• Notice unhelpful or self‑critical thought cycles

• Understand how anxiety and stress operate in the body

• Build practical coping tools for everyday life

• Strengthen confidence in managing challenges as they arise

CBT can be especially helpful for anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, and periods where your thoughts feel relentless or exhausting.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people to build a meaningful life - even when things feel difficult.

Rather than focusing on eliminating uncomfortable thoughts or emotions, ACT helps you relate to them differently. This approach recognises that pain is part of being human, and that struggling against our inner experience often increases suffering.

ACT supports you to:

• Create space from distressing thoughts

• Reduce the impact of self‑judgement and overthinking

• Strengthen emotional flexibility

• Clarify what truly matters to you

• Take values‑guided steps forward, even when things feel hard

This approach is particularly helpful for anxiety, grief, life transitions, chronic stress, and situations that cannot be easily changed.

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Solution Focused Therapy

Solution Focused Therapy is a strengths‑based approach that centres on what is possible, rather than becoming stuck in what feels broken.

While your experiences and struggles are always honoured, this modality gently shifts focus toward:

• Your existing strengths and resources

• Times when the problem feels less intense

• Small, achievable changes that create momentum

• Practical steps that fit your real life

This approach can be especially supportive if you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about where to begin - helping create movement while staying grounded in what feels most useful and manageable right now.

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Mindfulness-Based Practices

Mindfulness is used selectively within my integrative work, particularly when supporting nervous system regulation, anxiety, stress, and grief.

In therapy, mindfulness is not about emptying the mind or doing things perfectly. Instead, it may involve simple, gentle practices that support grounding, body awareness, and present-moment attention. These practices are introduced thoughtfully and only where they feel supportive - always guided by your needs, preferences, and capacity.

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Walk and Talk Therapy Integration

For clients who choose Walk and Talk Therapy, mindfulness and movement naturally become part of the therapeutic process.

Being outdoors and walking side‑by‑side can help:

• Reduce the intensity of face‑to‑face conversation

• Support emotional regulation through gentle movement

• Ease anxiety and restlessness

• Encourage more natural reflection and flow

Within walk and talk sessions, therapeutic approaches such as CBT, ACT, Solution Focused Therapy and mindfulness are woven together in a grounded, embodied way - allowing insight and emotional processing to unfold at a pace that feels more accessible for many people.

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Grief-Informed Therapy

Grief is one of the most deeply human experiences we can have, and it is not something to be fixed. It is something to be met with care, understanding, and respect. In my work with grief, the therapeutic relationship is always at the heart. Being heard, honoured, and accompanied through loss is central to the healing process. In this way, grief work is messy, human, and spacious, with room for pain, love, confusion, and growth to coexist.

At the same time, grief therapy is held within a framework that is also clinically grounded. This draws on well-established understandings of grief - the natural movement between loss and living, the ongoing bonds we hold with those who have died, and the gradual reshaping of meaning over time. I also draw on specialist training, including ACT-based grief therapy, and many years of experience supporting people in a bereavement service following sudden, traumatic, and complex losses.

In this way, my work as a grief counsellor is both clinically informed and, most importantly, deeply human.

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An Integrative, Person‑Centred Experience

While each modality brings its own structure and research base, therapy with me is never rigid or formulaic.

Our work together is guided by:

• Your goals and concerns

• Your pace and emotional capacity

• Your lived experiences

• What feels most supportive in each session

Sometimes therapy is practical and skills‑focused. Sometimes it’s reflective and spacious. Often, it’s a blend of both.

Above all, my aim is to offer therapy that feels safe, collaborative, and deeply human - where clinical knowledge and compassion sit side by side.

If you’re considering counselling and wondering whether this approach might suit you, you’re very welcome to reach out and explore that together.