I am a counsellor in training, offering in-person counselling in London, through clinical placements at I Found Me Counselling in Hackney and Spiral Holistic Therapy Centre in Islington. I’m currently in my final year on the diploma course for integrative counselling at City Lit.

My placement organisations

I am proud to be part of two excellent organisations providing meaningful and tailored support:

• I Found Me makes counselling accessible to all regardless of financial status, culture or ability. IFM Counselling provides a wide range of counselling services for individuals, and also runs Hackney Thinking Spaces and Black Mentors Matter, as well as other initiatives and workshops addressing the lasting effects of systemic racism.

• Spiral offers in person, low cost counselling and psychotherapy for those on low or no income, and our therapists in private practice offer counselling and psychotherapy for those on a higher income. Spiral was founded in 1995, and for almost 30 years we have been committed to offering a service that makes therapy available to as wide a range of people as possible in the local community and beyond.

About my practice

As an integrative counsellor I provide an adaptive practice that focuses on what best serves the client’s needs at the point in their journey.

I believe that the experience of being listened to in a non-judgemental space is inherently therapeutic and I have been pursuing practices that centre listening for many years. Sitting with feelings, letting emotions be present and expressed, and articulating thoughts in a resilient and empathetic space is a rare experience for most of us. Feeling genuinely safe is not a common feeling; I think of this particularly as a queer person, but it applies to people of any background, orientation, gender, ability, neurology. As a counsellor I strive to provide such an environment. 

Informed by my movement training, I see the body-mind as an integrated whole, with feedback systems that carry and inform our sense of self. My experiences with somatic practices and improvisation have given me a strong sense of the embodied self, and the value in seeing the whole body-mind even while engaged in a ‘talking therapies’ process – we are physical beings, experiencing and expressing ourselves.

I am a student member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and adhere to their ethical framework (member #01029808).