About me

I’m a counsellor specialising in working with the LGBTQIA+, poly and kink communities, as well as activists, neurodiverse folks and more. I hold many of these identities myself. I work with clients on issues around identity, relationships, sexuality, mental health, eco-anxiety and psychedelic integration.

I offer person-centred and existential counselling with an integrative, anti-oppressive approach. I chose to train in person-centred counselling because I believe there is no authority but yourself, and that you are the expert in your own life’s experience. This is the place from which the therapeutic work begins in person-centred counselling - as Arthur Ashe puts it, “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can”.

I believe that the personal is political (and vice versa), and that counselling can be a radical and political act if you want it to be. It is not a replacement for mutual aid, systemic change and community, but can help in a different way.

Like many counsellors, I came to the profession as a second career. Previously, I was a writer, filmmaker, corporate office worker, and activist. These are all experiences that I carry with me and so inform my work.

I currently live in South Wales where I can be found eating vegan food, knitting, and walking in nature as often as possible.

My training and credentials

My four years of training were through courses in Therapeutic Counselling run by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, all fully accredited and approved by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. My Diploma course was in Psychospiritual Counselling at Sweet Track Counselling in Glastonbury. I qualified in 2021 and became a full time counsellor that year.

After graduating, I enrolled post-graduate Certificate in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Counselling from Pink Therapy, accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists. Currently, I’m working on the TADF Diploma course on Diversity, Cultural Competence, Race and Anti-discrimination.

I’m a Pink Therapist Advanced Accredited Therapist, an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (member number NCS22-01672), a member of the Radical Therapist Network, the Red Clinic, and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union. Alongside my private practice, I work with clients at Bargee Traveller on a Mental Health Service for boaters and travellers. I am a professional member of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy. I teach modules on gender, sex, and relationship diversity at Sweet Track Counselling College, and I also offer group therapy sessions on psychedelic integration.