My Personal Journey
I remember feeling anxious from a very young age, often overwhelmed and confused by my thoughts, emotions and behaviours. As I grew older, I experienced periods of depression and struggled with an eating disorder. For many years I carried a persistent sense of not feeling good enough. There were many moments growing up where I longed to feel understood or truly met, but that sense of attunement often wasn’t there.
As I moved through life, I experienced relationship breakdowns, workplace bullying, and was eventually diagnosed with an autoimmune condition. All of this culminated in what I can only describe as a nervous breakdown. At the time it felt like everything was falling apart, but looking back now I can see it was also the beginning of something important.
I was drawn to studying psychology, believing it might help me understand myself and the world around me. But over time I began to feel disillusioned with the clinical and medical models that focused on diagnosis and labels rather than on healing and connection. For a long time I believed becoming a clinical psychologist was the path I needed to take, and when that didn’t happen it genuinely felt like my world was collapsing. Eventually I made the decision to pursue a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, where my interest in attachment patterns, early relational wounds and trauma began to deepen.
Like many people, I spent years in talk therapy. It helped me understand my patterns and gave me language for what I was experiencing, but something still felt unresolved. I could analyse my thoughts and behaviours, but the deeper wounds were still there. No amount of insight shifted the feelings of being “too much,” “not good enough,” and somehow outside of belonging.
Everything began to change when I started working with a somatic therapist. For the first time in my life, I experienced what it truly felt like to be seen, heard, and understood within a therapeutic relationship. There was a quality of presence and care that created a deep sense of safety, something I hadn’t realised I had been longing for so long. It was in the safety of that relationship that allowed something new to happen. I wasn’t just talking about my experiences anymore. I could begin to feel them, stay with them, and slowly process what had been carried in my body for many years. Little by little, the pieces started to come together.
This experience led me to study Embodied Processing, which focuses on nervous system regulation and the body’s innate capacity to heal. It confirmed something I had come to know through my own therapy: real healing happens when we are able to meet ourselves fully, not just with our minds, but with the parts of us that have been carrying pain, fear and loneliness, within the safety of a therapeutic relationship.
I’m also a mum of two children who continue to be powerful mirrors in my life. Through them I’m constantly learning, growing, and being invited to meet myself with more awareness and compassion. They remind me every day how important it is for all of us to feel seen, safe, and understood.
For me, this work isn’t just professional, it’s deeply personal. It’s about creating the kind of space I spent much of my life longing for. A space where all parts of you are welcome. Where you don’t have to perform, justify, or prove your worth. A space where you can feel truly seen, heard, and understood.
My own lived experience shapes not only what I do, but how I show up. I know how powerful it is to be met with compassion rather than judgement. My approach is gentle and non-directive. I don’t see myself as the expert in your life or someone who has all the answers. Instead, I see my role as walking alongside you as you reconnect with your own inner wisdom.
If this way of working resonates with you, it would be a privilege to accompany you on your journey toward healing, wholeness and a deeper sense of connection with yourself and your life.
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