Support
Adults
People come to counselling for many different reasons, and every person’s experience is unique. There is no set criteria for seeking counselling. If something doesn’t feel right, that is reason enough to reach out.
My aim is to support you in finding a happier, more fulfilling way of being — whatever may be bringing you here.
You may be struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, overwhelming thoughts, stress, loss, life changes, neurodivergence, loneliness, trauma, disorderly eating or a sense that you’re not living as authentically as you’d like. You might simply feel that there is something more to life and want support in exploring that.
Children & Young People
Adolescence has always been a time of change and challenge. Today, however, many young people are navigating added pressures that can make this stage of life feel even more overwhelming. The influence of social media, along with a decline in meaningful connection, has intensified struggles around mental health, identity, and self-worth.
Many young people experience difficulties such as strained family or peer relationships, anxiety, isolation, low mood or depression, compulsive online behaviours, poor school attendance, low self-esteem, negative body image, identity confusion, disordered eating, self-harm, and neurodivergent overwhelm. These challenges can feel isolating — but with the right support, they can be understood and worked through.
I strongly believe that every young person should have access to a counsellor during their adolescence. As a member of the BACP, I support the movement to ensure that every secondary school has a counsellor on-site to provide the essential support that young people need during this critical period.
Disorderly Eating
You may be worried about your health, weight, or the future, and you may feel confused as to why, and how these eating patterns have come.
Disorderly Eating can be distressing. You may feel consumed with thoughts about your eating habits, but without focus or intention to make changes. You may be stuck in a destructive pattern of thoughts and habits, that keeps you in a self critical state of emotion. What would it feel like to break out of the cycle? Would you like support to do this?
Examples of disorderly eating are emotional eating, over eating, restricting and binging, yo yo dieting, difficulties swallowing, smelling, or seeing some foods and food anxiety.
Eating Disorders
Your medical diagnosis and where you are on your path to recovery will need to be taken into consideration before counselling can commence. But please be assured that this does not define who you are, or why you may be seeking counselling. A individualised agreement is drawn up between us to ensure that you are protected and we both understand the safeguarding boundaries. This may incur extra charges due to the specialised support if appropriate.
I can support you on your path to recovery, if that’s what you are seeking. Or perhaps you’re looking for someone who wants to hear what its like, without judgement, without alternative motives, and without the fog of love and critic—someone who can see you as a person, separate from the eating disorder. I'll support you to navigate the pressures and turmoil of your daily struggles. And if you want to, together, we can explore your life journey and the factors that may have led to your issues with food. Enabling you to better understand your patterns of thinking and behaving. Then when you are ready we can look to the future and how your new tools, understanding and self-worth can make a difference.
Diagnosed Eating Disorder’s include: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Pica, Rumination Disorder, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) and Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorder (UFED).
Caring for someone with an Eating Disorder
The experience of caring for and/or living with, and supporting a person with an eating disorder can feel painful, lonely, confusing and sometimes, to much. It is likely that you also are filled with a whole bundle of difficult emotions, and stress.
The heartbreak, confusion and frustration that comes with loving, or caring for someone with an eating disorder is very real.
The first step to living your more fulfilling life is being able to express how it is for you. I am here, not only to support your mental wellbeing and promote good self-care, but to support the development of skills, behaviours, boundaries and attitudes that can help both of you.