Counselling & Psychotherapy

I offer both short- and long-term individual counselling and psychotherapy, using an integrative approach tailored to your unique needs. This means I draw on a range of therapeutic models and collaboratively explore with you what feels most helpful, meaningful, and appropriate to your experience. At the heart of my work is the belief that therapy is a relational and collaborative process, and that the therapeutic relationship itself plays a central role in healing and change.

In our initial sessions, we will explore what brings you to therapy, reflect on how you hope to use the space, and consider whether we’re a good fit for working together. I aim to co-create a space that feels safe, respectful, open, and honest, where you feel seen and supported.

My integrative practice is grounded in humanistic therapy and also draws on Compassion-Focused Therapy, EMDR Psychotherapy (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), and yoga- and mindfulness-based approaches to wellbeing. I work with people experiencing a wide range of challenges, and I have a particular interest in working with people who have experienced trauma and those who struggle with their relationship with their bodies.

In therapy, I can support you to:

  • Build self-awareness and body awareness

  • Identify and shift patterns that may be keeping you stuck or causing distress

  • Explore the roots of current difficulties and how your personal, family, and cultural history may still be impacting you today

  • Process and make sense of trauma or painful past experiences

  • Cultivate more compassionate relationships with others, with your body, and with yourself

My approach often weaves together several therapeutic strands. This might include exploring recurring patterns in your relationships, thoughts, or behaviours; making sense of the stories you carry about who you are and where they came from; or processing difficult or traumatic memories that may be affecting how you experience the present. Together, we can explore what has shaped you, understand what is no longer serving you, and consider what might allow for more ease, connection, and meaning in your life.

Therapy can help you process what’s happened in your life, develop greater self-understanding, and foster a deeper, more grounded connection with yourself. It can bring clarity to situations that feel confusing or overwhelming, and support you in making meaningful changes.

I offer online therapy via Zoom and in-person sessions in a comfortable consulting room at Millers Yard in York City Centre. I offer both short- and long-term therapy. To keep the work focused and responsive to your needs, we might agree on regular reviews of your goals and process together.

If you’re interested in working together or would like to discuss how therapy with me might support you, please feel free to get in touch.

Trauma Therapy

If you're coming to therapy to work through traumatic experiences, whether recent or earlier in your life, my approach is grounded in Judith Herman’s well-established three-phase model of trauma recovery. This framework provides a gentle, structured foundation allows us to move at a pace that feels right for you. The three stages are:

1. Safety: The first stage focuses on building a sense of stability, safety, and trust, both within yourself and in your external world. Together, we’ll work to create a secure therapeutic relationship and begin to map out the key experiences in your life. We'll explore self-care strategies and emotion regulation techniques that help you feel more grounded, more resourced, and more able to manage overwhelm. This phase also supports you in becoming more attuned to your nervous system and developing tools that prepare you for deeper trauma work, should you wish to go there.

2. Remembering and Mourning: We will not rush into this stage. Processing trauma is something we approach only if and when it feels safe and appropriate. For some people, the safety and stability developed in Stage 1 is enough. For others, there may be a readiness to begin exploring and processing trauma memories. If so, we will do this carefully and collaboratively, at your pace. This may involve working with the emotional content and meaning of the memories, challenging or exploring beliefs that have taken shape around them, and acknowledging grief for what was lost. We may also integrate EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) as a tool to help process and reduce the emotional intensity of specific memories. The aim here is not to relive trauma, but to re-story it in a way that brings clarity, relief, and a renewed sense of agency.

3. Reconnection: The final stage involves integration and reconnection with yourself, with others, and with aspects of life that may have felt distant or unreachable for a time. In this phase, we explore what matters to you, what brings meaning, and how you might reclaim or rebuild parts of your identity, relationships, or life that were impacted by trauma. It is about moving toward a fuller, more connected way of living, with the past no longer holding such a powerful grip on the present.

Throughout this process, your pace and readiness will guide our work. I approach the work with care, respect, and collaboration at the core.

EMDR Therapy

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach designed to help people recover from the emotional impact of distressing or traumatic experiences, especially when those experiences continue to affect life in the present, such as through flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, or intrusive thoughts and images.

When we experience trauma or overwhelming events, the brain sometimes struggles to process what happened fully. As a result, memories of the event can remain “stuck,” continuing to trigger emotional and physical distress long after the danger has passed. EMDR helps the brain and body reprocess these memories in a way that reduces their emotional intensity, so that they no longer feel as overwhelming or disruptive when recalled.

Although EMDR is best known for its effectiveness in treating trauma and PTSD, it is also widely used for a range of other issues, including:

  • Anxiety and panic

  • Grief and loss

  • Phobias

  • Low self-esteem or limiting self-beliefs

  • Body image concerns

  • Stress and depression

EMDR is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a frontline treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and is supported by a strong and growing body of clinical research.

In EMDR therapy, we work together to identify distressing memories or beliefs and use a structured process, typically involving bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or tapping, to support your brain and body in reprocessing the experience. EMDR does not involve reliving trauma in detail, and the process is carefully paced and contained to ensure emotional safety throughout.

If you’re curious about whether EMDR might be right for you, I’d be happy to discuss it further and answer any questions.

Commitment to anti-oppressive, anti-racist and affirmative therapy

I work with people of all genders, sexualities, cultures, and backgrounds. Rooted in an intersectional feminist framework, my practice is grounded in the understanding that our identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, class, culture, and faith, deeply shape how we experience the world, including our experiences of distress, healing, and belonging.

I aim to create a therapeutic space where you are welcome to bring your full self and where all aspects of your identity are seen, respected, and affirmed. I am committed to anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and affirming practice, and I view therapy not only as a space for personal healing but also as a place where we can make sense of how broader systems of power, privilege, and marginalisation impact our lives.

I also hold an ongoing commitment to reflecting on how my own positionality and intersectional identity shape the way I show up in this work. This includes continuing to learn, unlearn, and engage in critical self-reflection and ongoing clinical supervision.

What I offer

  • One-to-one individual therapy for adults (16+)

  • In-person in York City centre, or virtual sessions via Zoom anywhere in the UK or internationally.

  • EMDR Therapy

  • I can work with clients who are experiencing/have experienced a range of difficulties, including depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, gender-based violence, stress, eating difficulties, and burnout.

The list above is not exhaustive and is not intended to privilege diagnosis or specific issues. You may be searching for therapy because things don’t feel as you’d like them to or because you would like to understand yourself better. You may also seek a space to explore and make sense of your relationship with broader socio-political issues. This might be around the climate crisis, social justice, racism, your ancestry and history, or any other matters that the political landscape brings up. I welcome these topics in therapy, as I believe they can significantly impact how we make sense of who we are and how we relate to others and the world around us.