My special area of interest is postnatal mental health and birth trauma. I work a lot with dads who are struggling with depression, anxiety or anger after having children (even if those children aren't babies any more!). I also work with dads who have had difficult experiences around the birth of their children and need help processing them.
Do you feel like all the colour has drained from the world and you're just going through the motions?
Maybe you feel worried that you're not doing a good enough job as a dad or partner but you're exhausted from feeling worried all the time and you can't seem to switch off that voice in your head telling you that you're not cut out for this.
Maybe anger seems to burst out of you from nowhere leaving you feeling awful afterwards.
What if you had somewhere where you could safely release some of the emotional pressure that you have been carrying alone?
What would it feel like to have more emotional bandwidth so that you can be fully present with your children and be there for your partner? I can help.
I work with clients to address the root causes of their symptoms; together we work out what might be fuelling these patterns so that we can take the wind out of their sails and make the changes you want to make.
I am an integrative therapist, which means that I don't just draw on one type of counselling:
I believe that the therapeutic relationship between my clients and I is the most important part of therapy and I work really hard to make my clients feel safe
I look at how the past affects the present
I look at what invisible social or cultural factors might be playing a part in what's going on
I bring in body-based (somatic) tools and grounding techniques to the work
I help clients process their trauma safely
My own experience of postnatal depression and anxiety was the catalyst for training as a psychotherapist.
Counselling turned around my parenting story but I remember how difficult it felt to reach out for help and how scary it was to go along to that first session. Reaching out is the first step.
I have a level 7 postgraduate diploma in psychotherapeutic counselling from Staffordshire University (Distinction). I am also qualified in using EMDR with clients, which is an evidence-based way of working with trauma. I have a lot of experience of working with people in the postnatal period as I was a postnatal doula before becoming a therapist.
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