‘I hear you, I see you and you matter!’

I have over 14 years of experience in supporting adults with emotional overwhelm of stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, self-harm, bereavement and trauma and early developmental trauma.

When we experience high levels of emotional overwhelm, we often feel the weight of this in our bodies and in our preoccupied thoughts.

I offer a compassionate approach that supports your gentle awareness of your body’s thoughts, sensations, and feelings, so you can begin to let go of any shame, anger and fear that holds you back.

As the therapy progresses, there is more ease and compassion to consider, nurture and express the needs in the life you want to lead.

I specialise in supporting children who are living with high levels of anxiety, stress, low-self esteem, rage, grief and trauma. I have worked has worked extensively with children who have experienced chronic low self-esteem, social anxiety, bullying, complicated bereavement, parental separation and aggression-related trauma.

but rather gets really quite upset with some situations in their day that would not have been a problem before.

It can feel very worrying for us as parents, when we see our child change and become no longer able to cope but rather gets really quite upset with some situations in their day that would not have been a problem before. When children experience emotional overwhelm they often can’t find the words to describe how they feel, or what is wrong.

As an Art Psychotherapist, I offer creative skills to children, to help rediscover their voice, emotional capacity and resilience, so that they can get back into enjoying their lives fully. I offer accessible ways for kids to tune-in to their emotions, helping them to be safe, to think and feel lighter, and more able to respond to the challenges that come their way.

Support for parents ( as part of the art therapy process for your child):

An important part of my therapeutic support for young children is to offer parents, when appropriate, both separate consultations and an invite to join your child in play or art-making. In this way, you as a parent/s can help support your child’s emotional learning.

Often when we feel overwhelmed with emotions, we just do not have the words to describe what is wrong or how it feels to the people around us who care and are worried for us.

I specialise in working with young people who are experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety and who feel stuck by the emotions.

I offers them the skills and awareness to be able to better respond rather than react in challenging situations. As a result, the young people begin to be able to participate more fully and be more at ease in school, friendships and at home.

I offer young people the skills and awareness to be able to better respond rather than react in challenging situations. As a result, the young people I work with, begin to be able to participate more fully and be more at ease in school, friendships and at home.

Often we don’t have the words to describe exactly how it feels to be anxious. In therapy I offer in a new quality of safe connection that values important all things that interests them; from characters in video games to navigating peer relationships to unlocking emotional overwhelm. This new quality of connection in for example describing certain characters of a video game they play or how they have to be or navigate around school or relationships in their lives, can be a way of unlocking overwhelming emotions.