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.

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 Bristol where I can be found eating vegan food, playing folk music, and cycling the city and beyond as often as possible.

My training and credentials

My four years of training were via 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.

After graduating, I enrolled post-graduate Certificate in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Counselling from Pink Therapy and accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists. Currently, I’m wokring 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 and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union. Alongside my private practice, I work with clients Bargee Traveller on a Mental Health Service for boaters and travellers and 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.