The first meeting is a free half hour. There’s no obligation to tell me everything. This is a chance for you to get a sense of me with no obligation. Ask questions about me and my practice, and think about therapy goals.

Sessions cost £65 per 60 minute hour

I have a limited number of discount spaces available for students and others, please ask.

It’s a good conversation to have at the beginning because therapy can be tailored to your individual needs. Money, personal aims, and how you feel about therapy, are all important considerations.

Short-term blocks of 12, 16, or 20 sessions are available at reduced rates. These are good value for money, encourage attendance, and can be target focussed.

Medium and long-term therapy are weekly or fortnightly sessions for 3, 6 months, or longer. Sometimes a therapeutic relationship can span years, with frequency reducing over time.

We will meet in person or online, as suits you. In person’s great because I can take care of you in The Brook, make you a cup of tea, you can use the art materials and I can tidy up after you! But online can be great too, and offers its own particular intimacy.

We will meet for a free half hour before you agree to therapy. Ask me questions, get a sense of me, and the space, talk about your therapy goals, and time frames.

Therapy is an investment of your time and money, and I want every person to get what they want and need. But, I am not perfect! I actively encourage honesty about how therapy is going for you because it is together that we will create a positive and productive working relationship in which I offer warmth, compassion and genuine acceptance (no matter what) alongside effective therapeutic modalities.

Early sessions give us a chance to understand what’s making life difficult. We are like detectives together, finding out how your nervous system got to be the way it is. We do this by talking, drawing, creating timelines, diagrams, and other artistic medium if you’re that way inclined (art’s great, though its certainly not essential).

Together, we establish and ‘tap-in’ imaginal, somatic, and physical resources so you feel safe and confident for us to begin to approach ‘processing’. Processing uses bi-lateral stimulation (BLS) - which can be following my hand movements with your eyes, me tapping on your knees, or electronic ‘tappers’, which buzz in your hands or next to your knees. EMDR is experienced by some as a bit like a ‘dreamlike’ state. As our nervous system sorts through the stories it carries, our minds creates new images and new meanings. We remember things which may or may not have happened, we naturally heal traumatised ‘parts’ that did not get what they needed, and I closely assist this process. Each session is complete in its own right, even if the work of therapy takes many months.

I consider therapy to be a co-creation. You are the expert - it is your body who knows your story, it is your feelings and your therapy. I am alongside with tools and expertise, empathy and compassion, and we pay close attention to how you feel as we go. We take things at the pace you need. There is no benefit to moving too fast or too slow… so we keep talking so we get it right for you.

I work in service of your well-being in your sessions, but cannot do that alone, and therapy outcomes are better if we can consider diet, exercise, life dreams & values, relationships, and work. These things alone are not the key to mental health, but they all play an important part. In fact, science shows that there is a bi-directional flow, both positively and negatively, with how we metabolise energy and emotions that is influenced by every aspect of how we live, which can be empowering when the virtuous circle beings to flow upwards!

To achieve accreditation through a practicum process with EMDR Europe, I need to submit recordings of my EMDR practice. This is done with video recordings of sessions.

If you are happy to be videoed in sessions, either online or in-person, I will offer 10 sessions at the reduced rate of £55 per hour.

Videos are watched ONLY by my clinical supervisor, and are strictly confidential.

Contact me for more information.