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I come to this work with two kinds of knowledge: professional and personal. I am a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and therapeutic coach, and I am also a late-diagnosed neurodivergent adult. Each of those facts shapes the other in everything I do.

My route into neurodivergence work began at home. When my child was diagnosed with ADHD in 2020, I took a CAMHS course for parents, then kept going: further reading, online communities, formal training, and my own research into how to support them with compassion and empathy. Somewhere along that journey I began to recognise myself in what I was learning. In August 2023 I received my own NHS diagnosis of ADHD with autistic traits. So when I say I understand what it takes to navigate a world where the rules and structures were established by neurotypical minds, I mean it in both senses: as a clinician who has studied it, and as an adult who lives it.

Training is what turns that lived experience into safe, skilled practice. I hold an MSc in Counselling and accredited membership of COSCA, and my neurodivergence work is grounded in Danielle Mills's research on applying a neurodiversity-affirmative approach within the pluralistic framework. I work primarily with neurodivergent people, with a special interest in working with Autistics and ADHDers, and I offer neurodivergent-adapted EMDR for trauma.

I am trained in Pluralism, which starts from a simple idea: no single therapeutic approach holds the monopoly on understanding distress or on the most helpful response to it. Different clients want, and benefit from, different things in therapy. In practice this means I respect and draw on understandings from across the counselling and psychotherapy spectrum, and I tailor what we do to you. It also means we work collaboratively: shared decision making, negotiation, and open conversation about the process of therapy itself, including what you want from it and how you would like to get there.

The other core element of my work is Vegan trauma, an area I approach with specific awareness of the traumas Vegan clients carry.

I also work more generally with communication issues, stress, anxiety, depression, identity, bereavement and loss, self-esteem and self-confidence, relationship difficulties, and family-related issues.

Whoever you are and whatever you bring, you can expect a therapist who holds you in unconditional positive regard, works in a neurodivergence-affirming way, understands Vegan experience, and warmly welcomes LGBTQIA+ clients.

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Professional Body Membership:

I am an Accredited Member of COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland). 

COSCA accreditation is a mark of quality and professionalism in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Being COSCA accredited means that I have met rigorous standards set by the Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) organisation. This accreditation ensures that I am qualified, experienced, and adhere to a strict code of ethics. It also means that I am committed to ongoing professional development and supervision to provide the best possible care. 

Membership No. 3614.

Insurance:

I am fully insured with Balens Insurance UK to work with clients and supervisees internationally, including the USA and Canada.

Complaints: 

If you need to make a complaint, you can contact my professional body, COSCA here:

https://www.cosca.org.uk/guidance-policies/complaints/complaints-general-information