When things don't feel right
You may look as though you're coping, while inside things feel very different.
Perhaps your mind rarely switches off. You feel anxious, overwhelmed or emotionally exhausted. A relationship may be causing you pain. You may be grieving, struggling with something from your past or finding yourself responding in ways you don't fully understand.
Or perhaps nothing dramatic has happened. You simply don't feel like yourself anymore.
You don't have to wait until things become unbearable before asking for support.
Counselling gives you a confidential space to talk about the things that may be difficult to say elsewhere. Together, we can begin to make sense of what you're experiencing, understand patterns that may be affecting you and explore what you need to feel more able to move forward.
Areas I Can Help With
Relationships, Trust and Betrayal
When trust has been broken, or a relationship is leaving you feeling hurt, insecure or uncertain, it can be difficult to know what to do next. You may find yourself questioning your own judgement, struggling with boundaries or noticing familiar patterns in your relationships.
Counselling can give you space to explore these experiences, understand your feelings and consider what you need from your relationships, both with others and yourself.
Carers, Grief and Life Changes
Caring for someone you love can bring a mixture of emotions, including responsibility, guilt, sadness, frustration and exhaustion. Sometimes your own needs can become lost in the process.
Grief and loss can also affect our sense of identity and purpose, particularly when life has revolved around caring for someone else. Whether you're adjusting to a loss, a change in circumstances or a new stage of life, counselling offers space to explore what this means for you.
Anxiety, Overwhelm and Burnout
Perhaps you feel constantly on edge, find it difficult to switch off or spend much of your time worrying about things beyond your control. You may be someone who takes on a great deal of responsibility, puts others first or feels under pressure to keep everything together.
Counselling can help you explore the experiences and expectations contributing to these feelings, develop greater self-understanding and begin to recognise your own needs and boundaries.
Other Difficulties I Can Support You With
I also work with people experiencing low mood, loneliness, confidence and self-esteem difficulties, neurodiversity-related challenges, difficult or traumatic experiences, and the impact of the past on the present.
You don't need to fit into a particular category to benefit from counselling. If something is troubling you, that is enough reason to talk.
My Experience Supporting Carers and Families
Through my counselling work at Camden Carers, I've supported adults navigating the emotional demands of caring for others, including the impact this can have on their wellbeing, relationships and sense of identity.
My background in education has also involved working closely with parents and professionals supporting children and young people with SEND, including autism. This has given me an understanding of the pressures families can experience and how important it is to have somewhere to talk about their own feelings and needs.
How I Work
I primarily work from a person-centred approach.
This means that our work is shaped around you, your experiences and what you need from counselling.
I won't judge you, tell you what you should do or assume that I know your experience better than you do.
Instead, I will listen carefully and work alongside you as you explore your thoughts, feelings and experiences.
Where appropriate, I may also draw on psychodynamic ideas to help us understand patterns and relationships that may have developed over time.
Above all, I believe counselling is a collaborative process. We work together, at your pace, to make sense of what you're experiencing and explore what might help you move forward.How I work