About ME

I am a UK-based existential psychotherapist offering both face-to-face and online therapy. I am genuinely passionate about helping others discover their own sense of purpose and supporting them to live authentic, meaningful lives. My work is queer-, trans-, and polyamory-affirming. Outside of my work as a psychotherapist, I am also an award-winning interdisciplinary artist and writer.

As a queer, non-binary immigrant who grew up working class, I know first-hand how helpful it can be to work with a therapist who understands what it’s like to live outside the mainstream. Whether these are identities you share or not, you can rest assured that I strive to create a safe environment for you to be your fullest, authentic self.

MY EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• PhD Counselling Studies | University of Edinburgh (ongoing)
• Adv Cert Clinical Supervision | NCS certified (ongoing)
• Cert Diversity Within Contemporary Relationships | NCIP certified (ongoing)
• PGDip Existential Psychotherapy | The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling 
• Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling | The Minster Centre
• MA Gender, Sexuality & Culture | University of Manchester
• BA Gender & Sexuality Studies | Georgia State University

MY Specialisms

Some of the issues I work with include:

• Anxiety
• Creativity
• Depression
• Health, including living with long-term or chronic illness
• Issues related to class and class identity
• Issues related to race and / or cultural identities
• Issues related to sexual and / or gender identity (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, intersex, trans,  and / or non-binary identities)

• Personal development
• Relationship styles and sexuality (including BDSM, ethical non-monogamy, polyamory and swingers)
• Relationship issues (including betrayals, communication difficulties, different levels of sexual desire, and transitioning from monogamy to monogamy or vice versa)
• Religion and spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma 
• Work-related issues, retirement and redundancy

As a therapist, I acknowledge both systemic and overt forms of oppression that people experience when moving through the world, and so I strive to be aware of (and challenge) how those systems might be replicated in the therapy room. I have experience of working with clients whose identities may be informed by experiences of otherness including:

• LGBT, queer, and non-binary people
• People practising polyamory or other forms of relationship diversity
• Working class people
• People of colour
• d/Deaf and disabled people
• Neurodivergent people

 

These identities may or may not present issues that we look at in our work together, but working with a therapist who is sensitive to and knowledgeable about these identities can help you feel safer about being your fullest authentic self in the therapy room.