I have completed 4 years of post-graduate training in psychotherapy and counselling. I am currently working towards becoming a Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA) and achieving full UKCP accreditation. I am registered with the UKCP (trainee psychotherapist register) and abide by the UKCP code of ethics. I am also an accredited member of the National Counselling Society.

I am a qualified and experienced business and personal-life coach.

In my professional past I have worked in human resources, and graduate recruitment assessment and professional development, and qualified as a personal and professional coach for over 10 years.

I have also been a creative entrepreneur setting up and running a retreat centre in the forest in southern France between 2001 and 2012. I have a passion for the environment and have been touched both personally and professionally and in the consulting room by issues of climate anxiety, climate justice and social justice.

My core psychotherapy training is in Relational Transactional Analysis (TA). TA is a theory of communication and psychology which has its roots in psychoanalysis, but was developed in the 60s by Eric Berne to make therapy much more accessible. I draw on humanistic philosophy, some cognitive behavioural intervention and the psychodynamic relational process. I recognise that the quality of the therapeutic relationship, above any one particular theoretical orientation, is the most important aspect of successful therapeutic work.

Thinking, sensing, feeling and intuiting are all given emphasis within the framework of our working relationship.