My clinical career includes working within the NHS as a Senior Practitioner delivering sessions based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and supervising fellow practitioners. My years of clinical work taught me something important: structured programmes do not work for everyone. Some people need more than tools and techniques. They need depth, relationship and a space that is built entirely around them.

This experience is what led me to work as an integrative therapist: drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic and attachment-based therapies, shaped around who you are rather than applied by default.

I have published peer-reviewed academic research on childhood maltreatment and its long-term impact on adult life. This is not background knowledge — it is a deep, research-level understanding of how early experiences shape who we become. I understand that living with trauma is not just about what happened — it is about how it lives in you now. The flashbacks, the hypervigilance, the way certain moments can take you straight back. I understand that being asked to talk through the details of a traumatic experience can feel impossible, or even retraumatising.

My training in the Rewind Trauma Technique means there is another way. It is a well-established, evidence-based approach that works without the details of what happened. Many clients find it one of the most quietly profound things they have ever experienced. It is gentle, it is effective, and it puts you in control of the process from beginning to end.

I also have published academic research on autism — and I bring that depth of understanding directly into my therapeutic work with neurodivergent clients. If you are autistic, have ADHD, or are in the process of making sense of a recent or late diagnosis, I want you to know that the way your mind works is not a problem to be fixed or managed. It is a different way of experiencing the world — one that has often come with very real and very understandable challenges: masking, exhaustion, feeling perpetually misunderstood, or finding that standard approaches to therapy simply were not built for how you think and feel.

Many neurodivergent adults also carry the additional weight of anxiety, depression, difficult childhood experiences or relationship difficulties that have never been properly understood in the context of their neurodivergence. I work with all of this together — not as separate issues, but as the interconnected whole that they are.