Discover My Story

We all have challenges in our lives. Your own are probably what brought you to my website. As you’d expect, I’ve faced my own challenges too. Challenges which helped me find inner strength and internal resources. Challenges which were actually my path to being able to help people just like you, to help people in the same way I was helped at a time I really needed it. I’m fortunate that I’m able to offer that help to my clients in a variety of ways: with counselling, with coaching and with therapeutic writing groups.

I have done a vast array of jobs which I feel help with my work today.
Initially working as a family support worker helping to prevent youth homelessness by providing counselling, parenting support groups, family mediation and group work to vulnerable and under represented groups.

In my experience, counselling helps us to accept ourselves. It helps us to understand who we are, to gain our sense of self, and gives us the strength and resilience to deal with life’s challenges. The support I received inspired me to find a way to help other people. I qualified in 1998 and later achieved my registered/accredited status with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Initially I trained as a counsellor then I decided to train as a coach.  When I became aware that some clients needed help to focus on their future rather than on their past. They’d reached a point in their healing journey where it was important to set goals for themselves. Now I’m able to offer clients like them individual and group coaching, as well as my writing for wellbeing workshops.

Where did the poetry therapy aspect of my services come from? Initially, my lifelong love of creativity. You might know the feeling of getting lost in doing something like painting, or creating in any way. That was me as a child and as an adult. I realised I could offer creative therapies – such as poetry therapy – after attending a conference on using the arts to help process trauma and abuse. That was my catalyst to qualifying as a Certified Poetry Therapist with the International Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy, USA, and the beginning of being able to offer my own therapeutic writing-based workshops.

If you’re ready to look at your own challenges in a confidential space, supported in an attentive and non-judgemental way, I’m ready to do that with you. You can contact me here if you have any questions.