I’ve worked as a Dramatherapist for 20 years in Oxford, Shetland and East Sussex. I qualified in 2025 as an Integrative Embodied Psychotherapist and I now integrate this deeper mind-body practice into my work with adults, and young people and their families. My areas of special interest include developmental trauma and attachment insecurities, anxiety, depression and loss.
I’m deeply interested in how early experiences create the blueprint for our lives, influencing how we see ourselves, others and the world around us. Neuroscience shows that this blueprint is not a life sentence; with the right therapeutic support, it can be rewritten, allowing for the development of safer, more adaptive ways of coping in place of patterns that may keep us stuck in unhelpful or even unhealthy responses to life.
I use a three-pronged therapeutic approach: helping clients understand how the nervous system is impacted by their experiences; offering a supportive space to explore their past and present relationships and environments; and guiding creative and symbolic work with the body and unconscious to process their experiences, change their perspective and develop a more integrated sense of who they are and want to become.
