My Approach

I began helping people with mental and emotional challenges in 2016 as a recovery assistant. At the time I was working with people struggling with addictions, but as time passed and I learnt more about their struggles (and as it turned out, my own as well) I came to realise that the root of that dilemma was the trauma experienced in childhood. The types of traumas I too had experienced. Traumas which were so much more common than I had allowed myself to believe. 

My initial training was based in arts therapies (MA Creative Arts Therapy), and I also draw extensively on the Relationship Recovery Process (RRP), an experiential, group based model devised by Amanda Curtin LICSW, and popularised by Patrick Teahan LICSW. 

Childhood trauma makes us feel like we are uniquely cursed with troubles no one can understand, and which no one can relieve us of. This makes a lot of sense given that as kids, nobody came to save us from the cold, lonely and often frightening circumstances of our lives. Trauma makes itself known in our adult lives as persistent relationship problems and great washes of feeling that can colour our whole lives in dull or angry tones. Recovery is genuinely possible though, and we can begin to claim back the life we deserve from the ravages of a neglectful or abusive upbringing. 

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I am here to help guide, facilitate, hold and nurture that process for you.