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I am a fully trained, qualified and insured counsellor. Face to face counselling offered within Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire.

On line or telephone counselling offered nationwide. You may be looking for a Counsellor because you have noticed you are feeling anxious, down or depressed. You may have experienced a bereavement which you are struggling to come to terms with or you are facing a dilemma in your personal life and you don't know where to turn. May be you are looking for someone to talk to and be heard without any j

udgement. If any of this sounds familiar I can help. Talking to someone and being heard can be a very powerful experience and this is something I provide for you. I work with individuals aged 13 years and over on a variety of issues. I am experienced of working with people who have suffered bereavement or a loss as well as with other problems that may be having an impact on your mental health. My aim is to give my clients the choice as to how we work together. I offer face to face, on line or telephone counselling to give you the choice that is best for you. The first step is to make contact with me and I will arrange a telephone appointment with you where you can explore with me the type of help I can provide.

05/09/2026

Honestly if I didn’t know the theory behind inner child work - I would have thought it sounded crazy! But actually it’s a really interesting way to help understand ourselves a little.

Our little inner child carries all those experiences we had when we were younger. All those little coping techniques we picked up or all the messages we received about the type of human we need to be to be loved and accepted. You know the good one or the brave one or the one who should be perfect. All those little messages.

Helping us connect to that inner child is really beneficial in counselling because it helps us to understand who we are and why we behave the way we do. And there is no better way to increase self compassion than to look into the eyes of the child where all those beliefs started. It can really stop those critical voices pretty bloody quickly.

Counselling and therapy is a fabulous place to connect to your inner child to work out what they might need right now.

03/09/2026

The words are simple enough - no thank you. Words we can say anytime. But honestly it’s not the difficulty of the words is it? It’s the feelings that come with the words.

Saying no can bring up a lot of stuff - difficult stuff. Stuff that might give us a bit of insight about how we feel about ourselves.

Sometimes we focus so much on being able to say the words and set that boundary that we don’t take a second to look at the reasons we find it difficult to say. Those reasons are the things that need a bit of attention. And maybe when we have paid attention to them we might find the words a little easier.

How easy do you find it to say no and if it’s hard - what are your reasons for that?

01/09/2026

September already and it’s the month of change.

You might be bracing yourself for lots of change this month. Whether it’s a change in the weather, a return to work after the break or slightly bigger changes.

Kids are back at school; starting for the first time, starting a new year or just getting back into it. Or maybe they are off to uni, starting a new job or packing their bags to go travelling.

It’s a lot!

There are no expectations on anyone on how to handle change. There is no rule book. So if you have a lot coming your way this coming month - take your time to navigate through it. Change can really impact your mental health so you might find your moods and emotions are all over the place.

I am going to be doing some posts this month about change and empty nests to keep your eyes peeled.

31/08/2026

Summer 2026 done!

It’s been a busy one for me. Lots of client work and lots of play time.

How’s it been for you?

Tomorrow brings us a new month and a whole host of new changes. So I hope you have a lovely day today and will catch you tomorrow.

No doubt I will be filling your feed with posts about mental health and just how fabulous counselling is. But for today I will leave you to it.

29/08/2026

Self-care on a basic level.

Nothing grand going on over here! Just taking a pew and chilling out.
Sometimes it’s exactly what I need to do.

Apologies that it wasn’t anything more exciting.

What’s your basic self care stuff?

28/08/2026

Hands up if you use humour when things are feeling hard or difficult. Or do you crack that joke about yourself - getting in before anyone else does.

Dare I say I do - all the bloody time.

It’s something my whole family do. A good old deflect from the serious stuff. And yes I will make those jokes about myself before anyone else gets the chance.

It’s a classic coping strategy. And it’s got me through some right old serious stuff. It also helps me feel less awkward when meeting new people. Dropping the joke about the things I worry about myself. I don’t mind - insult away!

But here’s the thing - it can sometimes mean we are avoiding the difficult emotions and they can store up. Or we end up saying some properly horrible things about ourselves under the cover of humour. It can be a reflection of our own self worth and also encourage others to join in.

So sometimes we need to appreciate why we are using humour and what we are trying to avoid.

And in the counselling room - we will use humour and of course you can deflect away. But equally I will of course point it out to you.

26/08/2026

Grey is not a colour in our thinking that we seem to get on board with. It often seems to be more like black and white thinking - one thing or the absolute opposite.

We are either strong or weak. We make a mistake and we are are a failure. Everything will be perfect or go totally wrong. We are happy or sad.

But often things are a lot more grey than we realise. If we make a mistake it doesn’t make us a failure - it just means we made a mistake.

Grey thinking opens up a lot of possibility and actually helps up to make sense of things.

How’s your grey thinking?

25/08/2026

Do you hear the whispers or is it only ever the shouts you are not going so well?

If you find it hard to do self care the thing is the longer we ignore the signs the more extreme the self care has to be. Whereas if listened to those whispers we only have to do the simple stuff.

So how well do you know your signs you are not doing so well?

24/08/2026

Us British can be quite good at apologies it seems. We say sorry for everything and I hear it a lot in the counselling room. Often more so at the start of the counselling journey.

I am sorry for crying, talking, not talking, not knowing - the list goes on.

The amount and reasons for the apologies often gives us a bit of a clue about our mental health and how we feel about ourselves.

Maybe we are used to apologising because we always get it wrong or we don’t take up space or we find it hard to focus on our own needs.

In the counselling room you will often hear me say - no apologies needed. Or I might even ask why you felt the need to say sorry (that’s always a bit of a confronting question!).

How often do you say sorry and how often do you actually need to say sorry?

22/08/2026

So yep - I may feel 25 on the inside but that would be 25 in the year 1998 when I was 25.

So no I am not quite the hip chick I thought I was.

But seriously if you are looking for a counsellor right now - you might be thinking about how to pick someone you can work with. If the only thing worrying you about the person who looks right - is they are not the same age as you & won’t get it - don’t let it hold you back. If they look the kind of person you can talk to that’s the really the most important thing.

With all clients a counsellors role is to sit with you and hear what life is like for you and how it’s impacting you. We do that by listening and understanding - so no if I don’t know a new social rule that exists now or I have no clue what music you are listening to I will ask. And sometimes I might even ask you to play that music or show me the stuff you like.

As they say age is just a number - listening, empathy and no judgement is what’s important.

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