My Background
After moving to Sheffield, I began my career working in a school with sight impaired children and, post-training, I have continued to work with young people and adults in further and higher education facilitating access to their chosen courses.
I have worked for over twenty years with adults who identify with different ways of experiencing the world and neuro-divergent thinking styles and I trained to work as a tutor and mentor for people with specific learning differences – dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, and autism.
I saw struggles with mental health and wellbeing cropping up regularly, particularly for those who were experiencing overwhelming levels of stress and anxiety, and it was this work that led me to retrain as an integrative counsellor/psychotherapist.
My Experience
My experience of working with bereavement and loss may be of particular significance to you as many people are going through a very difficult time with of the death of a family member, a loved one, of the people they work with professionally.
Living losses such as loss of livelihood, loss of social contact, loss of close reciprocal relationships and the impact of illness and disability, can also have a huge impact on wellbeing.
I have worked under two specialist bereavement organisations in Sheffield for a number of years and can offer a therapeutic space for you to explore your personal experiences of bereavement and loss. These may be current, or may have happened some time ago.
I will listen to your story with compassion and empathy, striving to assist you to find ways that feel most comfortable to mourn your loss, your way, whilst you are grieving.
“The paradox of grief is that finding a way to live with the pain is what enables us to heal”
(Julia Samuel, Grief Works).
Recovery from trauma is built on empowering survivors to reconnect with their own selves and build new connections with others. In my work, this starts by providing a core experience of safety within the therapy space and exploring ways to help stabilise the normal mind-body responses to traumatic events.
I have worked for the past two years at a Sheffield charity providing integrative trauma-focused therapy to women who are survivors of trauma through past experiences of neglect, sexual and domestic abuse in childhood, and also as teens and adults.
A substantial rise in levels of anxiety (including social anxiety) and stress has been recognised more recently, some of which may be associated with the impact of the global pandemic or, perhaps, the pace and expectations of modern life.
You may feel that now is a good time to talk through your personal experiences. I can offer you an empathic and non-judgemental therapy space to do this.
My Qualifications
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Professional Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy
Academy SPACE, Sheffield -
Certificate in Telephone and Online Counselling
Counsellingtutor.com - PgCert Autism, Sheffield Hallam University
- Dip Education (Post 16), Sheffield Hallam University
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Professional Body Membership
National Counselling Society Registered member
Contact Now
Please contact me to organise a free 20-minute initial conversation by telephone, where you can ask any questions you may have and we can discuss whether I am the right therapist for you at this time.