What to expect in therapy

Our sessions offer a safe, confidential space where you’ll be seen and heard without judgment. Together, we’ll explore the deeper beliefs you may hold about yourself — often shaped by early wounds — and begin to rewrite them through a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, attunement, and hope.

I use a range of TA concepts, such as:

• Ego States (Parent, Adult, Child) to explore internal dynamics

• Drivers and Injunctions to identify the “rules” you’ve been living by

• Re-decision Therapy to help you create new choices and narratives

• Relational Needs to support healing from early attachment wounds

I may also integrate psychoeducation, creative interventions, body awareness, and inner child work where appropriate — always tailored to your pace and needs.

Areas of particular interest

While I work with a range of client issues, I have particular expertise and interest in:

• Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs)

• Early trauma and complex PTSD

• Parental grief

• Shame, guilt, and self-worth issues

• Identity and self-development

• Family roles and dysfunction

• Boundaries and relational difficulties

• People-pleasing and emotional co-dependency

About Me

I’m a student psychotherapist in advanced training. My work is rooted in Transactional Analysis (TA) and underpinned by a trauma-informed, relational approach. I work together with clients to explore patterns developed in childhood — such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional suppression, or fear of intimacy — and how these continue to shape their adult lives.

I help clients understand the unspoken family rules they may have absorbed growing up (like “Don’t talk,” “Don’t feel,” or “Don’t trust”) and how these have contributed to a version of themselves built for survival, not authenticity. In our work together, we begin the process of gently unlearning and reconnecting with who they really are.

Professional Experience

I have had experience training with therapy clients at an affordable counselling organisation, and a drug and alcohol recovery charity offering therapy to young adults affected by parental substance use or trauma. I am an Ambassador for a Children of Alcoholics charity, and I have run therapeutic groups for mothers in recovery. I often integrate my learning from these roles into my practice.

I work in line with the EATA Ethical Code and am committed to ongoing clinical supervision, personal therapy, and continuing professional development to ensure I can offer the highest standard of care to my clients.

Why This Work Matters to Me

For many people who have suffered trauma, the scars of childhood aren’t always visible — but they can echo through adult life in the form of anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, or a constant need to please others. I believe in the power of therapy to break generational cycles, to reconnect with the true self, and to begin living more freely and authentically.

Healing is possible, not through denying the past, but by understanding it, grieving it, and learning how to be ourselves and relate to others in new ways. I’m here to walk that path alongside you.

Contracting and Co-Creation

Clear and collaborative agreements are really important to me, which is not just practical but a great part of the therapeutic relationship. I return to the contract often, reviewing and revising it with you as therapy progresses, to ensure the work remains relevant and ethical, and that we are working together down the path you would like to take. Sometimes the path takes unexpected turns, but wherever we go you take the lead and we walk together.