Welcome

You are welcome. I am an experienced psychotherapist, art psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, dedicated to supporting and empowering people. I offer a safe and confidential space if you wish to develop a better understanding of yourself and of others and find your own solutions to make effective changes in your life or cope with problems. With a compassionate and collaborative approach, I draw on over thirty years of expertise to create a safe and nurturing environment where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and creativity. My practice is a space where you are met with compassion, honesty, and understanding. Here, your story matters. Together, we’ll work to build on your strengths, explore what might be holding you back, and develop ways that can help you move forward with more clarity and confidence. Using evidence-based approaches such as counselling, longer term psychotherapy, or art psychotherapy, we’ll work together to create practical, personalized strategies that align with your goals and values. My practice is normally fully booked, but I welcome enquiries.

If you are a professional therapist, I am also an experienced supervisor and trainer. I offer a confidential and nurturing space for practitioners seeking clinical supervision or training for continuing professional development. My practice is normally fully booked, but I welcome enquiries.

My professional approach: 

My approach is person-centred and collaborative, working in partnership with you to maximise your strengths and choices.

Professionally, my approach is pluralistic / integrative, with a core orientation which is person-centred. My practice is trauma-informed and I work collaboratively, aligning with co-production principles and practises. My work is also informed by humanistic, systemic, environmental, psychodynamic / attachment, existential / transpersonal, & CBT theories. 

My main current roles include: 

• BACP Registered Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist. My competences and practice standards are recognised by BACP as being aligned to column C in the SCoPEd framework, i.e. column A+B+C competences (2025).

• Art Psychotherapist (HCPC Registered).  

• BACP Senior Accredited Supervisor, supervising Art Psychotherapists, Counsellors / Psychotherapists, Line Managers, CEOs, and other professionals. I supervise for diverse organisations in statutory, third sector and voluntary settings; and practitioners in private practice.

• Appointed as Regional Representative for Art Therapy / BAAT on the Advisory Committee of the Allied Health Professions (ACAHP) to the Department of Health NI. Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) (Mar. 2024 - ongoing). Nominated by AHPFNI / BAAT. (Previously I was also on ACAHP for six years.)

• External Quality Advisor - University of Chester, for counselling, psychotherapy, psychological trauma courses.

• Core tutor - I am a core tutor and teach on several trauma-informed post-qualifying courses: 

  • A core tutor & curriculum designer on a Level 5 Post-Qualifying Diploma in Trauma Informed Counselling / Psychotherapy with Children & Young People (CPCAB) (2013-ongoing).
    - I co-designed the course and I mapped the course to BACP's CYP competences & curriculum & to BAAT guidelines & HCPC standards. This Post-Qualifying course is for registered counsellors / psychotherapists, arts psychotherapists and similar.

  • A core tutor & curriculum designer on a trauma Informed Level 6 Post-Qualifying Certificate in Creative Supervision of Practice Across the Age Range (CPCAB) (2016/17-ongoing).
    - I co-designed the course and I mapped the course to BACP's supervision competences & curriculum & to BAAT guidelines & HCPC standards. This Post-Qualifying course is for registered counsellors / psychotherapists, arts therapists and similar.

• Trainer - I teach on other courses: 

  • A core trainer with Awen - CPD, teaching post-qualifying CPD short courses and seminars, such as: art therapy / psychotherapy theories and praxis, eco-practice, sand tray work, using fairy tales & myths in psychotherapy, etc.

  • A Trauma Education facilitator.

Other roles:

To read more about my professional biography & past roles: click here