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Support, every step of the way.
Therapy that meets you where you are: grounded, compassionate, neurodiversity-affirming and here when you need it most.
Guiding You Step by Step
Single Session Therapy - Access at the Point of Need
Sometimes you don’t need long-term therapy — you need skilled support right now. My single-session service, informed by Windy Dryden’s Single-Session Therapy (SST) approach, offers rapid access when an issue feels urgent, overwhelming, or time-sensitive.
You’ll be provided with a pre-session form to return before the session and offered an appointment within 24-48 hours, giving you a focused space to clarify what’s happening, understand why you’re stuck, and identify a practical way forward. Together, we concentrate on the specific issue you bring to the session, working collaboratively to create clarity, relief, and a workable plan you can put into action immediately.
Single-session therapy can be a standalone appointment or a gateway into further work if you choose to continue.
Reproductive Health
Reproductive journeys are deeply personal and often more complex than people expect. Whether you’re facing fertility challenges, living through repeated IVF cycles, coping with pregnancy loss, considering donor conception, or navigating peri-menopause or menopause, your emotional wellbeing matters just as much as your physical health.
With a background in genetic counselling, trauma-informed practice, and therapeutic work with individuals and couples across a wide range of reproductive experiences, I offer a space where you can talk openly, safely and without judgement. Our work can focus on processing grief, managing uncertainty, coping with medical trauma, supporting your relationship through treatment, or understanding and regulating intense emotions such as overwhelm, numbness or fear.
Support is available for:
• Fertility and assisted reproduction (including repeated IVF failure)
• Menstruation issues and menstrual education (pain, irregular cycles, PMDD, stigma, early/late onset)
• Pregnancy loss and recurrent miscarriage
• Donor conception, surrogacy and family-building decisions
• Men’s experiences of infertility and treatment
• Genetic conditions, testing decisions and family planning
• Menopause, peri-menopause and identity transitions
• Reproductive trauma, medical trauma and embodied fear responses
Relationship Therapy & Coaching
Whether you’re navigating communication difficulties, rebuilding after infidelity, or wanting to strengthen and deepen your connection, couples therapy offers a focused, supportive space to work together rather than against each other. I draw on specialist training in the Gottman Method, the Relational Life Therapy approach, and professional development with Elizabeth Earnshaw, blending evidence-based frameworks with practical, compassionate tools.
Sessions help you understand unhelpful patterns, reduce conflict, and build a more secure, intentional partnership. This work is suitable for couples in crisis, couples feeling stuck, and couples who simply want to invest in maintaining a healthy relationship.
Coming soon: Intensive Couples Therapy – a two-day immersive experience offering concentrated support, tailored guidance, and a clear roadmap for lasting change.
Inherited (genetic) and Chronic Health Counselling - Therapeutic Support
Support around Inherited Health Conditions
Genetic conditions and chronic illnesses can shape every part of life — from identity and relationships to uncertainty, fear, and day-to-day coping. Alongside my therapeutic training, I am also professionally trained as a genetic counsellor, which means I understand both the emotional landscape and the clinical context that many clients are navigating.
This service does not replace medical or genetic advice and risk assessments will not be provided. Instead, it offers therapeutic support for individuals and families who have already met with a genetic counsellor, doctor or specialist team, and who now need space to process what this information means for them personally and emotionally.
You may be managing:
• A recent diagnosis
• Anxiety around symptoms or genetic testing
• Fear of passing on a condition
• Uncertainty about treatment decisions
• The emotional strain of long-term symptoms or pain
• Relationship stress linked to chronic health issues
Therapy provides a safe, contained space to explore your experience, make sense of big emotions, reduce overwhelm, and develop coping strategies that support your wellbeing.
Support for Chronic Health Conditions
Chronic illnesses often bring a mix of physical difficulty and emotional strain — fatigue, pain, identity shifts, medical trauma, isolation, or feeling misunderstood. I offer support for people living with a wide range of chronic conditions, helping you explore pacing, boundaries, grief, frustration, and the realities of living in a body that may not behave as expected.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) Support
I have completed the EDS ECHO Community Leaders & Educators Programme, and have a strong understanding of the unique challenges associated with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and related conditions — including the fluctuating nature of symptoms, medical dismissal, injury fears, mobility issues, and the emotional impact on identity, work and relationships.
Therapy can help you:
• Emotionally process genetic and medical information
• Explore grief, fear, frustration, or uncertainty
• Adjust to limitations and identity shifts
• Manage the psychological impact of pain and fatigue
• Navigate family dynamics around inherited conditions
• Build communication strategies with partners or loved ones
• Develop self-compassion, pacing and sustainable coping strategies
Support following Genetic Genealogy Testing
Direct-to-consumer tests (such as 23andMe or AncestryDNA) can reveal far more than people expect.
Many clients come to therapy after receiving unexpected or unsettling results, including:
• Discovering previously unknown relatives
• Learning a parent is not a biological parent
• Uncovering family secrets or unexpected heritage
• Receiving unexpected health-risk information
• Feeling overwhelmed, confused or distressed by the implications
I can help you make sense of the emotional impact of these discoveries, navigate family conversations, and work through feelings such as shock, grief, betrayal, uncertainty or identity disruption. This is a space to process what the results mean for you, without judgement or pressure.
ADHD Coaching & Therapy
ADHD can shape how you think, feel and move through the world - influencing focus, motivation, organisation, emotional regulation and relationships. Whether you have a formal diagnosis, are exploring ADHD traits, or simply recognise that your brain works differently, you deserve support that is practical, compassionate and grounded in real-life experience.
My approach combines therapeutic work (ACT-based) with ADHD-informed coaching, helping you understand your patterns, build strategies that fit your actual life, and reduce the shame, overwhelm or self-criticism that often come with living in a neurodivergent world.
Support may focus on:
• Emotional overwhelm, burnout and rejection sensitivity
• Executive function challenges (organisation, planning, initiation)
• Time-blindness, routine-building and sustainable scheduling
• Procrastination, task paralysis and perfectionism
• Managing transitions, workload and sensory overload
• Relationship patterns and communication differences
• Identity work — especially for late-diagnosed adults
• Understanding how ADHD interacts with trauma, chronic health or hormones
Sessions are collaborative and tailored, blending therapy, psychoeducation and coaching tools. We work together to identify what’s keeping you stuck and build workable habits, compassionate self-understanding and strategies you can actually use.
This service is suitable for adults at any stage - newly diagnosed, long-diagnosed, undiagnosed but curious, or simply wanting ADHD-informed support to improve daily life.
ADHD support for students
University brings a unique set of pressures: deadlines, reading loads, independent study, supervision relationships, research demands and the constant need to self-structure your time. For students with ADHD, this can feel overwhelming, isolating or frustrating, even when you are highly capable and motivated.
I offer specialised support for students at all levels, including those on diploma, undergraduate, master's and PhD programmes.
This can include help with:
• Planning coursework, dissertations and long-term research projects
• Breaking down overwhelming tasks into manageable steps
• Navigating perfectionism, imposter feelings and academic anxiety
• Building study routines that respect your energy and working style
• Managing supervision expectations and communication
• Preparing for vivas, presentations and deadlines
• Balancing study with health, work and life demands
• Staying regulated during intensive academic periods
Support is practical and grounded - helping you move from paralysis and panic to clarity and workable structure. The aim is not to turn you into a different kind of student, but to help you thrive as the one you are.
Body doubling and accountability groups may be available.