Therapies and Services I Provide
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, helping people develop healthier patterns and practical coping strategies.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing helps people process traumatic or distressing experiences so they feel less emotionally overwhelming and disruptive in everyday life.
Clinical Supervision for CBT Therapists
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy supervision offers a reflective and supportive space for therapists to strengthen their clinical practice, confidence, and professional development.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The number of sessions required by someone can vary significantly depending on the problem of focus. In general, we tend to expect somewhere between 6 and 12 sessions, with at least two of these encompassing assessment and formulation of your difficulties. However, some people require more sessions and this can be up to 20 sessions if needed.
My approach with CBT:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a collaborative and evidence-based therapy that explores the relationship between thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physical responses.
At times, difficult experiences, stress, or longstanding patterns can leave us feeling anxious, overwhelmed, low, or stuck. CBT helps identify and understand these patterns while developing healthier and more balanced ways of responding.
My approach to CBT is compassionate, flexible, and tailored to each individual. Alongside practical strategies and therapeutic tools, I place importance on creating a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space where you feel genuinely heard and understood.
Rather than simply focusing on symptoms, therapy aims to build greater self-awareness, emotional understanding, resilience, and lasting change.
I provide CBT to help with:
- Anxiety and excessive worry
- Social Anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Depression and low mood
- Stress and burnout
- Low self-esteem and self-criticism
- Obsessive compulsive difficulties (OCD)
- Trauma-related symptoms and PTSD
- Health Anxiety
- Phobias
- Sleep difficulties
- Emotional overwhelm
- Perfectionism
- Relationship and communication difficulties
- Life transitions and adjustment difficulties
A Flexible Approach
CBT can be offered as both short-term and longer-term therapy depending on your individual needs, goals, and experiences. Sessions are collaborative and paced in a way that feels manageable and supportive for you. If you aren't sure if the structure of CBT is what you need, we can adapt it to fit your needs. Sometimes, this is just a space to talk, reflect, and explore ideas before deciding if a specific approach is needed.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
I expect to offer between 8 and 20 sessions of EDMR depending on the problem we are addressing. These sessions include a mixture of assessment, resource development and stabilisation, reprocessing, and future planning.
My Approach with EMDR:
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is an evidence-based therapy designed to help people process traumatic or distressing experiences that continue to affect them in the present.
At times, difficult experiences can become “stuck” in the nervous system, leading to symptoms such as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, intrusive memories, hypervigilance, low self-esteem, or feeling emotionally reactive. EMDR helps the brain reprocess these experiences in a way that reduces their emotional intensity and impact.
My approach to EMDR is compassionate, paced carefully, and adapted to your individual needs and experiences. I place strong importance on safety, trust, and emotional stability throughout the therapeutic process, ensuring that therapy feels manageable and supportive.
EMDR is not about reliving traumatic experiences in detail, but about helping the brain process and integrate experiences that may still feel unresolved or emotionally distressing.
I provide EMDR to help with:
- Trauma and PTSD
- Phobias and fears
- Distressing life experiences and transitions (especially those related to LGBTQIA+ experiences)
- Medical trauma
- Birth and Pregnancy trauma
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and attachment difficulties
- Social Anxiety
- Panic symptoms
- Intrusive memories and flashbacks
- Low self-esteem and negative self-beliefs
- Emotional overwhelm
- Stress and burnout
- Grief and loss
- Relationship and attachment difficulties
Clinical Supervision for CBT Therapists
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy supervision provides a reflective, collaborative, and supportive space for therapists to develop their clinical practice, confidence, and professional growth.
My approach to supervision is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and evidence-based practice. I aim to create a non-judgemental environment where supervisees feel able to think openly about their clinical work, explore challenges safely, and build on their existing strengths and skills.
Alongside supporting clinical decision-making and therapeutic interventions, I place importance on reflection, professional development, therapist wellbeing, and maintaining ethical and effective practice.
Supervision is tailored to your level of experience, professional role, and areas of interest. Whether you are newly qualified or more experienced in practice, supervision offers a space for thoughtful reflection, learning, and ongoing development.
Areas supported in Supervision:
- Case formulation and treatment planning
- Developing CBT interventions and skills
- Working with anxiety and depression
- Trauma-informed CBT practice
- Risk assessment and safeguarding
- Therapeutic relationship and process
- Reflective practice and self-awareness
- Clinical confidence and professional development
- Managing complex presentations
- Working with diversity and individual differences
Where possible, I place an emphasis on practicing active supervision methods, including modelling, role plays, live supervision, and problem solving to enhance clinical skill development.
My areas of clinical interest and specialisms
LGBTQIA+ experiences
I offer a safe and affirming space for LGBTQIA+ clients to explore identity, relationships, life experiences (including trauma and loss), mental health, and the impact of discrimination, stigma, or minority stress.
Adoption & Parenting
Parenting and adoption can bring complex emotional experiences, relationship challenges, identity shifts, and questions around attachment and belonging. I provide a supportive space to explore these experiences with sensitivity, curiosity, and care.
Long-term conditions & medical trauma
Living with a long-term health condition or experiencing medical trauma can affect emotional wellbeing, identity, relationships, and feelings of safety in the body. I offer therapy that acknowledges the emotional impact of ongoing health difficulties while supporting acceptance, coping, adjustment, and self-compassion.
Perinatal experiences
The perinatal period can bring significant emotional, physical, and relational changes for people of all genders. I support clients experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, identity changes, low mood, birth-related difficulties, fertility challenges, or adjustment to parenthood in a compassionate and non-judgemental space.
Birth trauma
Difficult or traumatic birth experiences can continue to affect emotional wellbeing, relationships, confidence, and feelings of safety long after birth. My therapy offers a supportive space to process these experiences sensitively and at a pace that feels manageable.
Sexual trauma
Experiences of sexual trauma can have a profound impact on emotional wellbeing, relationships, trust, identity, and feelings of safety. I provide a compassionate, trauma-informed, and carefully paced therapeutic space where these experiences can be explored safely and without judgement.