I began my psychotherapy training in 2018, and since then have worked across numerous therapeutic settings, including schools, charities and Employer Assistance Programmes (EAPs). It has been both a privilege and a rich development opportunity to work with so many different client groups, who had a variety of reasons for attending therapy. The learning I take from these diverse experiences informs my private practice and ensures I can work with clients from any walk of life, whatever their reason for seeking therapy.

Along the way, I realised that traditional therapeutic approaches sometimes unwittingly exclude groups or communities that need support the most. In particular, I found that neurodivergent folks often found traditional talking therapy – and therapists – didn’t account for the processing differences they experience, how emotions live in their bodies, and the challenges they might face in expressing them. Therapy was, in some instances, compounding these struggles, rather than helping with them.
Similarly, clients with diverse gender identities were feeling misunderstood not only in the world, but in the therapy room, too.

Therapy itself is not inherently affirming. Like anybody, therapists need to work to educate themselves and challenge the unconscious bias that can get in the way of us truly seeing, valuing and accepting someone exactly as they are. I encourage all of my clients to show up in this way, and to challenge me if, and inevitably, when, I get things wrong. In this way, I hope to create an environment that is truly safe.