Each therapy plan is totally individual, depending on what you’re experiencing and what changes you would like to make. Each therapy contract starts with an assessment; identifying what’s brought you to therapy. We can then establish therapy goals, with clear objectives of how to meet them and what will tell us when they have been met.

 

We will create a psychological formulation, or a map, of what you’ve experienced, the meanings you have taken from these experiences and the influence they have had over how you see yourself, others and the world. This formulation then guides treatments and helps us to understand the thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are showing up in the present, and how to challenge or work with them.

 

I can work in the short-term for very specific issues, or in the long-term for more complex issues. I have a wealth of experience helping in the following areas:

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• PTSD / Trauma / Complex Trauma

• Anxiety Disorders (Generalised Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Panic Disorder)

• Depression

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder / Intrusive Thoughts

• Phobias

• Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder)

• Complex Emotional Needs / Emotional Dysregulation

• Self-Harm

• Low Self-Esteem

 

I have special interest and extensive experience supporting people with perinatal mental health difficulties, those with disordered eating and with people who have difficulties regulating emotion (sometimes described as a ‘personality disorder’), due to my work within the NHS and the path my career has taken.