About Me

I am a dual-registered Clinical Psychologist with 25 years' experience working in mental health, twelve of those as a psychologist working with complex trauma, burnout, chronic and life-limiting illnesses like cancer, fear of illness recurrence, and navigating body image changes through treatment, medical trauma, and recovery from destructive or painful relationships. I run a deliberately small private practice from central Southampton.

I believe therapy doesn't have to take years to make a real difference. With the right space, the right approach, and someone genuinely in your corner, change is possible — and it can happen faster than you think, helping you go from stuck to steady, from depleted to restored.

Why I Do This Work

Women are extraordinary. And yet, so often, the women who create the softest, safest spaces for everyone around them offer the hardest, most unforgiving space to themselves. That gap — between how tenderly you care for others and how harshly you treat yourself — is often where suffering lives. It's exactly where we can do the most meaningful therapy work.

What Shaped My Work

I trained in South Africa, in a clinical tradition that is rigorous, relational, and deeply human. My early career was forged in a very tough environment — a male prison, where for five years I worked with adult offenders, including men serving life sentences, men who had been traumatised themselves and inflicted trauma on others. As a woman in that world, I learned early on how to hold the hardest conversations without flinching. How to sit with complexity, darkness, and pain — and remain steady. That steadiness is still the foundation of everything I do.

Alongside my private practice, I work at Maggie's Cancer Charity in Southampton where I support people at every stage of their cancer journey: from the shock of diagnosis, through treatment, into the aftermath of a body that looks and functions differently, and sometimes into end of life.

I didn't come to this work through training and experience alone. I came through living. I know from the inside what it is to lose yourself, to allow circumstances to diminish you, and to carry more than your share for longer than you should. And I know what it takes to rebuild. I don't sit across from women in pain as someone who has only read about it. I sit there as someone who understands, in her bones, what it costs to keep going — and what becomes possible when you finally stop carrying it alone.

My Christian faith is central to who I am — not something I bring into the room uninvited, but the foundation of how I show up: with steadiness, genuine compassion, and deep respect for every woman I work with. Women of all backgrounds, beliefs, and none, are genuinely welcome here.

How I Work

I work hard to create the conditions for radical honesty, through deep attunement, directness, and the capacity to hold what I hear without shrinking from it. I work in a focused, contained way — purposeful, with a clear sense of direction that we decide on together.

I work in an integrated therapeutic manner and one of my core tools is BrainWorking Recursive Therapy (BWRT®) — an evidence-informed method that I trained in during 2015. BWRT® works directly with the brain's own processing pathways and is particularly effective for trauma, anxiety, and the stuck patterns that talk therapy alone sometimes struggles to shift.