Who I work with
Adults
People seek therapy for many reasons – loss, stress, or transition, or when something simply feels too heavy to manage alone. Therapy offers a space to pause and reflect whether you may be facing a specific difficulty or noticing a more general sense of unhappiness and disconnection.
Our biology and life experiences shape how we relate to ourselves and others, and we may not notice unhelpful patterns. Together, we gently bring these into focus, helping you understand what triggers your reactions and emotions. Feeling seen and understood within a safe therapeutic relationship can support healing.
Therapy can help you build practical emotional regulation and self-awareness skills and healthier ways to cope with stress and relationships, helping you feel more grounded, resilient, and able to navigate challenges. This can be a place for growth, and strengthening your capacity to meet life’s difficulties.
Children and Adolescents
Understanding Development
Childhood and adolescence involve rapid emotional, cognitive, and relational growth. Emotional difficulties can often present through behaviour rather than words, such as withdrawal, irritability, changes in sleep or appetite, or struggles with confidence, friendships, or school. Support may be helpful after a stressful event such as family transition, or moving home or school, or generally with anxiety or low mood.
Technology and Emotional Well-Being
Digital life plays a significant role in how young people connect, socialise, and see themselves. Social media and online communication can shape confidence, identity, and emotional regulation in complex ways. Therapy offers space to explore these influences and support healthy coping.
Confidentiality, Boundaries and Working Together
Clear boundaries around confidentiality are agreed from the start. This helps balance a young person’s need for privacy with the supportive involvement of parents. Parent involvement varies depending on the needs of the young person.
Reviews offer time to reflect on progress and think about supportive steps forward. When helpful, I can collaborate with schools or professionals to ensure the young person feels understood and supported across their everyday environments.
Therapy
Therapy adapts to each child’s age and developmental stage. Younger children often communicate more freely through play, drawing, or stories, while adolescents may benefit from the privacy of a confidential space where they can share feelings that are harder to discuss at home. Mainly, therapy offers a consistent relationship where thoughts and emotions can be safely expressed.
Connected and Non-violent resistance parenting (NVR)
Parenting can bring joy and deep connection, but it can also feel emotionally demanding. Many parents experience moments of anxiety, guilt, frustration, helplessness, or feeling not “good enough.”
Connected parenting sessions can offer:
- space to reflect on how you feel and reflect on your relationship with your child
- can help you understand your child’s individuality, strengths and needs
- widen your parenting tools by thinking together about everyday situations, challenges, and crisis moments, and how to approach them in helpful ways
- exploring neurodivergence or mental health needs, helping you understand how your child’s brain works and what kinds of support may help them thrive
- space for self-compassion at anything that affects your parenting, such as past experiences, trauma, losses, values, practical pressures, health needs, or disability
- support to you especially when your child is unable to engage in therapy or when starting with parents feels most helpful.
NVR
If anxiety, escalating behaviour or emotional distress are difficulties your child is experiencing, it often leads to seeking control or reassurance. This can unintentionally create patterns that increase stress for both parent and child.
NVR helps parents resist being pulled into anxiety and distress-led cycles and can offer you practical, empowering strategies to make daily life feel more manageable. The aim is to support you in responding differently so that the intensity of these patterns reduces over time and to strengthen your position as a parent.
Through NVR, you will learn strategies that help you:
- step back from unhelpful cycles such as repeated reassurance or escalating arguments
- introduce small, manageable moments of change
- involve supportive others if useful
- respond to anxiety-driven behaviours with clarity while avoiding escalation
These strategies are not about doing more. They are about doing things differently, in ways that reduce pressure and help you and your child feel more contained and supported. NVR builds on existing strengths that parents have to respond in ways that brings more calm, stability, and connection into everyday life.