If you've landed here, chances are you're tired.
Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep fixes. The kind that comes from holding it together, day after day, while something underneath is quietly wearing you down.
Maybe you’ve described yourself as ‘a bit of a worrier’ for so long that you’ve stopped questioning it. Maybe anxiety is just part of who you are… something to manage, not something to change.
I became a therapist because I know what it costs to keep going when everything feels too much.
In my early twenties, I was the person who had it together. Good job, close friends, no obvious reason to be struggling. And yet I was, quietly, persistently, exhaustingly.
When I finally asked for help, therapy changed things in a way I hadn’t believed was possible. Not immediately, and not without effort, but genuinely, lastingly. It changed how I moved through the world.
That experience is why I do this. And it’s why I take it seriously.
Therapy that fits around real life.
My approach is integrative, which sounds complicated, but simply means I don’t follow a rigid script. I draw on different therapeutic methods depending on what’s most useful for you, at that point in your work together.
Some sessions are more reflective, sitting with an experience, understanding it differently. Some are more practical, building specific skills for managing anxiety in the moments it shows up. Most are a bit of both, led by what you need that week.
I work with women who are intelligent, self-aware, and often a little sceptical about whether this will actually help. I find that honesty works better with this group than reassurance. So I’ll tell you what I think, I’ll be honest when something isn’t working, and I’ll always explain my reasoning rather than just telling you what to do.
Sessions are 50 minutes, held online or in-person in Bristol. Between sessions I’m available by email for brief questions.
Ten years, thousands of hours, one focus.
I trained as an integrative therapist at the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling, qualifying in 2014. Since then I’ve worked in NHS primary care, a university counselling service, and private practice, and every environment has taught me something different about how anxiety shows up and what helps it shift.
Working in university counselling gave me a deep understanding of high-achieving anxiety, the kind that hides behind a full calendar and a long to-do list, and only becomes visible when the calendar empties.
NHS work showed me the breadth of how anxiety can present from the woman who can’t leave the house, to the one who runs a team of twenty and cries on the way home. Both are real. Both deserve proper support.
Private practice, which I moved into full time in 2019, gave me the space to work the way I believe works best, consistently, collaboratively, and without the constraints of a short-term referral window.
Trained. Accredited. Insured.
A bit more about me.
I live in Bristol with my partner and our slightly neurotic rescue cat, who I’m convinced has her own anxiety disorder and therefore gets a lot of compassion.
I spend a lot of my non-working time walking — the Downs, the towpath, the Mendips when I can get there. There’s something about moving through a landscape that helps me think, and I suspect that’s true for a lot of the people I work with too.
I’m also a committed if mediocre home baker, a regular at my local library, and genuinely unable to watch a film without pausing it halfway through to discuss what’s happening.
You don't have to have the right words.
If you’ve read this page and something in you is saying ‘yes — this is the kind of person I’d like to talk to’, that’s enough to go on.
The discovery call is free, it’s 30 minutes, and there’s no commitment involved. It’s just a conversation to see if this feels like a fit.
You can book directly using the button below, or send me a message first if you’d prefer to ask a question before you do.