About me
Choosing to work with me and explore your emotional landscape is something I hold with care. You want to know you’re in steady hands, so it feels important to share how this work took shape for me, and why it matters.
I began studying Psychology in my teens, long before I had language for what I was searching for. That early curiosity led to a degree in Psychology and later training in Counselling, Hypnoanalysis, Psychotherapy, EFT and other therapeutic approaches. From the outset, I was drawn to understanding how people make sense of themselves, their relationships, and the worlds they’ve grown up in.
My early life shaped me in fundamental ways. Growing up with a chronically ill mother and a father largely absent through work, I learned to be helpful, reliable and emotionally attuned. I became skilled at anticipating what was needed and keeping things steady, often by putting my own needs to one side.
Every school report described me as “extremely conscientious”. Responsibility became my way of staying connected and safe. What I didn’t yet understand was how easily that pattern could follow me into adulthood.
From my late teens, life unravelled quickly. On the day I received my university acceptance letter, my father left. Over the following couple of years my mother developed cancer, we lost our home and most of our possessions, and she died shortly before my final exams. I was grieving, disoriented and suddenly very alone.
It became clear that being capable and agreeable was not enough to meet the realities of life. I needed a deeper internal orientation, one that didn’t depend on managing everything around me. That search took me further into therapeutic training and practice, alongside demanding full-time work that eventually pushed me towards burnout.
Over more than two decades, I’ve worked thousands of clinical hours with women across different continents and life stages, and have spoken to audiences internationally. My work brings together psychological training, therapeutic depth and lived understanding, with a strong emphasis on clarity, responsibility and choice.
My adult life has included further losses and reckonings, including fertility challenges and miscarriage, marital betrayal and divorce, estrangement and additional home and family upheavals. These experiences have deepened my respect for how complex change can be, and for the importance of support that neither rushes nor rescues.
Today, my work centres on helping women untangle responsibility they never chose, make sense of patterns that no longer serve them, and decide how they want to live from here. Sometimes that involves reflection and space. At other times, it involves clear guidance, perspective, or challenge.
I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all answers. I work relationally, meeting you where you are, and supporting you to see clearly enough to make choices you can stand behind.
If this way of working feels right for you, I’d be glad to support you in finding more clarity, choice and self-trust.
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