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I didn’t come into this work because I had everything figured out. Like many of the people I now support, I became very skilled at "coping." I learned how to adapt, achieve, and keep going. From the outside, I looked capable and steady. Inside, there was often anxiety, pressure, and a quiet sense that something didn’t quite fit.

It took time—and my own experience of therapy—to understand something important:

"Coping isn’t the same as living. Feeling “fine” isn’t the same as feeling safe".

The Turning Point: When talking wasn't enough

For years, I practiced yoga, but it wasn't until I found a slow, precise Iyengar class that something shifted. For the first time, I wasn't just "exercising"; I was being pulled out of my head and into my body. I realised that for much of my life, I had been disconnected from my physical self as a way to manage previous experiences. Yoga became my path back to embodiment.

Around the same time, I read Bessel Van Der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, and the science finally met my experience. I began to notice in my clinical work that for some clients, talking simply wasn't enough. Despite their best efforts to create healthy changes, something was holding them back: their nervous system.

The Language of the Nervous System

This was my most transformative shift. I realised that some of my most "admired" traits—were actually sophisticated survival strategies:

Pushing through exhaustion,
Always being "kind,"
Staying endlessly resilient

In women especially, these patterns are praised. But through a trauma-informed lens, we see that constantly over-functioning or people-pleasing are often signs of a nervous system that has learned to stay on high alert.

My Approach: Compassionate, Private, and Embodied

Learning to work with my body rather than against it changed everything. Boundaries stopped feeling like rigid walls and became a grounded internal compass asking: What’s okay for me? What’s not?

Today, I run a dedicated private practice in Warrington, Cheshire and online. I am a trained, trauma-informed counsellor with specialist training in nervous-system and movement-based approaches, drawing deeply on my background as a qualified yoga teacher.

I work with adults and older teenagers experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, trauma and life transitions. I have a particular passion for supporting women who feel overwhelmed or stuck after years of holding everything together, while welcoming people from all walks of life. My approach is both compassionate and practical. We don't just talk about change; we create the physiological conditions for it.

I believe counselling is not only for crisis. It is a space for meaningful growth—a place to reconnect with yourself and build a life that fits, rather than one that simply functions.