I have 24 years’ experience as a psychotherapist, working across private, public and voluntary sector settings. Alongside my clinical practice, I work as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and trainer, and am part of the core staff team at Re-Vision, where I coordinate and teach on Stages 4 and 5 and work as a training supervisor.

My particular passion is for understanding human suffering through a relational, developmental and soulful lens. I am interested in what happens to us in relationship — how our earliest experiences can shape the ways we come to inhabit ourselves, others and the world, and how, within a trusting therapeutic relationship, something new can become possible.

As Daniel Siegel puts it, attachment involves “honouring differences, cultivating compassionate linkages.” I find this a powerful way of thinking about the therapeutic relationship too: not seeking to erase difference or difficulty, but creating a relationship in which experience can be held, understood and gradually brought into greater connection.

I have a particular interest in early relational trauma, attachment and the ways in which experiences that may once have been necessary adaptations can later leave us feeling constrained, disconnected or lost. I am interested not only in what has happened to us, but in the meanings our psyche has made from those experiences — and in the possibility that healing can involve developing a different relationship with ourselves, with others and with our own inner world.

This sits at the meeting point of attachment and depth psychology that informs much of my work. Jean Knox’s integration of attachment theory with Jungian thought has been particularly influential for me, offering a way of understanding the psyche as something that develops within relationship, while retaining a sense of mystery, meaning and imaginative possibility.

I do not see therapy simply as an endeavour to alleviate symptoms. Rather, I see it as an opportunity to become more deeply acquainted with oneself — including those parts of ourselves that may have been hidden, defended against or lost from view. Sometimes the work is about making sense of what has happened; sometimes it is about finding language for what has never quite been spoken; and sometimes it is about discovering that there is more to us than the adaptations through which we have learned to survive.

I offer Psychotherapy, Clinical Supervision, Training and Lifespan Integration Therapy, working with warmth, curiosity and depth.

My aim is to offer a space where there is room for both the ordinary and the extraordinary: for what hurts, what has been lost, what has been defended against — and for the emergence of something more alive, connected and authentically one’s own.

“What door is opened into soul through our wounds.”

― James Hillman