Trauma
Support to process overwhelming experiences and rebuild a sense of safety and stability.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Space to explore low mood and disconnection, and work toward a life that feels like yours again.
Grief & Loss
Compassionate support through the waves of grief, without timelines or expectations.
Anxiety
Understanding what anxiety is trying to protect you from, and loosening its grip on daily life.
Adolescents & Young People
Support for young people navigating identity, emotions, relationships, and pressure.
Self Esteem & Identity
Exploring the stories you carry about yourself and building a steadier sense of self-worth.
Addictive Behaviours
Looking beneath the behaviour to understand what it has been protecting you from.
Relationship Issues
Making sense of patterns in relationships and creating space for something different.
Life Transitions
Support in the in‑between spaces where life has changed and you’re finding your footing again.
Trauma
Trauma is not just what happened to you — it is what happened inside you as a result. It can stem from a single devastating event or from years of experiences that slowly shaped the way you see yourself and the world. It shows up differently for everyone. As hypervigilance, emotional numbness, difficulty trusting, unexplained shame, fractured relationships, or a persistent sense that something is deeply wrong even when you can't name what.
Trauma-informed therapy offers a space where your nervous system can begin to feel safe. Working at your pace, with your story, without pressure or judgment. The goal is not to erase what happened but to loosen its grip — so that your past no longer dictates your present, and you can begin to come back to yourself.
Depression & Mood Disorders
Depression is more than sadness. It is the exhaustion of carrying something invisible that no one else can see. It is losing interest in things that used to matter, feeling disconnected from yourself and everyone around you, and sometimes not even knowing why.
Mood disorders affect the way you feel, think, and function in ways that can be deeply isolating. And yet they are far more common than people realise, and far more treatable than it feels in the thick of it. Counselling is a space where you don't have to perform or explain yourself. Where we can begin to understand what is underneath, what is driving it, and what small steps might start to shift it. Using evidence-based approaches, we work together toward something steadier — a life that feels like yours again.
Grief & Loss
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, and one of the loneliest. It does not follow a timeline, a checklist, or anyone else's expectations of how you should be feeling by now. It comes in waves. Grief doesn't only come from death. Grief lives in the end of a relationship, the loss of a version of yourself, a pregnancy, a friendship, a dream you had to let go of. Whatever you are grieving — it is real. And it deserves space.
Counselling offers a space where you don't have to protect anyone from your pain. Where you can say the unsayable, sit with the unbearable, and slowly — at your own pace — begin to find your footing again. Not to move on, but to move forward, carrying what you loved with you. Grief is not something to be fixed. It is something to be witnessed. I am here to do that with you.
Anxiety
Anxiety is your mind trying to protect you. The problem is that it often can't tell the difference between a genuine threat and an ordinary Tuesday. It pulls you out of the present and into a spiral of what ifs — catastrophising, overanalysing, rehearsing conversations that haven't happened, bracing for things that may never come. It can show up as constant worry, physical tension, panic, irritability, avoidance, or the exhausting feeling of never truly being able to relax. For many people, anxiety has been there so long it just feels like personality — that's just who I am.
Counselling for anxiety isn't about eliminating all discomfort from your life. It is about understanding what your anxiety is trying to tell you, loosening its grip on your daily life, and building the tools to meet uncertainty without being consumed by it.
Adolescents & Young People
Adolescence is one of the most complex and disorienting seasons of life — a time of rapid change, identity formation, intense emotion, and enormous pressure from every direction. School, social media, family, friendships, the future — it can feel completely overwhelming.
I work with adolescents navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, identity, relationship difficulties, and the general weight of trying to figure out who they are in a world that doesn't slow down. I bring the same warmth, directness, and non-judgment to young people that I bring to every client — with an approach that is adapted to where they are, not where we think they should be.
Self Esteem & Identity
So many of us move through life carrying a quiet but persistent sense that we are not quite enough. Not successful enough, not loveable enough, not interesting enough — or simply not sure who we are beneath everything that has been placed on us. Low self-esteem rarely announces itself loudly. It lives in the way you shrink in certain rooms, apologise for taking up space, say yes when you mean no, or find it easier to believe criticism than kindness. Identity can feel just as unsettled. Who are you outside of the roles you play — the parent, the partner, the employee?
The work we do together in this space is about peeling back the layers — the messages you absorbed in childhood, the stories you've been telling yourself ever since, the defences that once protected you. We work toward something more grounded — a sense of self that doesn't depend on external validation, that can hold steady.
Addictive Behaviours
Addiction is not only about substance or the behaviour itself. It is about what came before it — the pain that needed numbing, the anxiety that needed quieting, the emptiness that needed filling, the trauma that had nowhere else to go. Alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, screens, relationships — these things offer relief. And for a period, they work.
I approach addictive behaviours without judgment and without an agenda — someone willing to sit with you in the why. My role is not to lecture; it is to help you understand what the behaviour has been doing for you, what it has been protecting you from, and what might be possible when you begin to address that underneath. Recovery is not linear. It is not about willpower or weakness. And it does not require you to have it all figured out before you walk through the door.
Relationship Issues
Our relationships are often where our deepest wounds show up most clearly. The way we attach, communicate, react, withdraw, or over-give in our relationships is rarely random. Relationship difficulties can look like constant conflict or complete disconnection. They can show up as patterns you keep repeating. They can be the slow erosion of a partnership, the complicated grief of a separation, the difficulty of setting boundaries with family, or simply the exhausting feeling of never quite being understood by the people around you.
You don't have to be in crisis to seek support. Sometimes it is simply about wanting to understand yourself better — why you react the way you do, what you need, and how to ask for it. Counselling offers a space to look honestly at your relationship patterns — not to assign blame, but to understand them. Because when we understand where our patterns come from, we gain the power to choose something different.
The relationship you have with yourself shapes every other relationship in your life. That is always where we begin.
Life Transitions
Life rarely asks permission before it changes. Transitions, even the ones we choose, can unsettle us more than we expect. Because change, even good change, involves grief. It involves letting go of a version of yourself, a future you had imagined, or a certainty you had built your sense of safety around. And in that in-between space, before the new thing has taken shape, it can feel profoundly disorienting.
Counselling during times of transition offers a space to slow down and make sense of what is shifting. Together we can untangle what this change means for you and what kind of life you want to build on the other side of it.
Sometimes being lost is the beginning of finally finding your way.