I am a BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, with over six years of experience working within the NHS. I provide Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to adults across the UK, supporting individuals experiencing depression and a range of anxiety difficulties, including general anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health anxiety, phobias, and social anxiety.
I also have extensive experience supporting individuals who are adjusting to long-term health conditions such as cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. My approach integrates both psychological and physical aspects of wellbeing, helping you navigate the challenges of living with ongoing health difficulties.
Areas I Support
Depression
We will work together to gradually reintroduce meaningful activities at a manageable pace, while also addressing self-critical or hopeless thoughts, helping you reconnect with a sense of purpose. Further, we will try to build a shared understanding of how your low mood has developed and what may be maintaining it. This includes exploring past experiences, negative automatic thoughts, rigid rules for living and core beliefs.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
We will explore your experience of worry, what triggers it, how it feels, and how it affects your daily life. Together, we will develop new ways of responding to uncertainty, including problem solving, behavioural experiments, and reducing safety behaviours such as reassurance-seeking and avoidance.
Panic Disorder
We will develop a clear understanding of your panic experiences, including the interaction between physical sensations, thoughts, and behaviours. Through structured exercises, you will gradually build confidence in your body’s responses and re-evaluate fears linked to panic.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
We will work at a pace that feels safe and manageable for you, placing strong emphasis on building trust and a secure therapeutic relationship before beginning trauma-focused work. Together, we will develop a shared understanding of how your experiences are affecting your current thoughts, emotions, and memories, including patterns such as re-experiencing, hypervigilance, and avoidance. Using evidence-based CBT approaches for trauma, we will gently process difficult memories, update unhelpful meanings, and reduce the sense of ongoing threat, helping you regain a sense of safety, stability, and control in your life.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
We will work together to understand how intrusive thoughts, images, or urges have become distressing, and how attempts to manage them, such as compulsions, avoidance, or reassurance-seeking, may be maintaining the cycle. Using a compassionate and collaborative approach, we will develop a clear formulation of your OCD and gradually engage in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), supporting you to face feared situations while reducing compulsive responses. Alongside this, we will explore and re-evaluate underlying beliefs (such as responsibility, threat, or intolerance of uncertainty), helping you build confidence in responding differently to intrusive thoughts over time.
Health Anxiety
We will explore how concerns about your health have developed and what keeps them going, such as checking behaviours and/or reassurance-seeking. Together, we will test out alternative perspectives and develop a more balanced approach with health-related thoughts.
Phobias
We will create a graded, step-by-step plan to face feared situations in a way that feels safe and manageable. Alongside this, we will explore and gently challenge beliefs about danger, helping you build confidence over time.
Social Anxiety
We will explore how your social fears developed and what maintains them, such as fear of judgement or self-focus. Through behavioural experiments and cognitive work, you will begin to develop a more balanced and compassionate view of yourself.
Long-Term Health Conditions
Drawing on my additional training in long-term conditions, we will explore the interaction between your physical health and emotional wellbeing. This includes managing uncertainty, pacing activities, and reconnecting with what matters to you, supporting you to live well alongside your condition.
I offer both in-person and online sessions, depending on what works best for you.