About me
I provide a warm and friendly space to explore whatever you need to look at. I trained as a therapist largely as a result of the profound impact of my own experience of psychotherapy. My professional background is working with people in the legal, housing and mental health fields; I have also worked as an artist and in sustainable design research. In addition to a four year psychotherapy training I draw from experience of parenthood, an interest in creativity and in the life-changing discovery that I am one of the growing group of adults finding out they are neurodivergent.
My core training is in Transactional Analysis (TA), a talking therapy with a strong culture of user-friendly concepts to help make sense of one's experiences. Like many therapies, TA is interested in how the past can influence the present, how we may have adapted to early environments as well as wondering about the absorbing of unwritten rules inherent in families and cultures.
Regular clinical supervision, ongoing professional training, and full liability insurance ensure I meet the professional and ethical standards of the therapy institutes of which I am a member. In addition to my therapeutic training I hold a BSc in Chemistry with Philosophy and a BA in Visual Arts Ceramics.
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