About me

I didn't come to counselling through a straightforward path.

I began my career as a police and court interpreter in the UK, working alongside people during some of the most difficult periods of their lives. I was there for police statements, court proceedings and the aftermath of experiences that had often changed people's lives considerably. I could translate what had happened, but I became increasingly interested in what came afterwards: how people made sense of their experiences and how they began to recover.

That interest eventually led me to retrain in domestic and sexual abuse work. I spent several years supporting people affected by coercive control and violence, including honour-based violence, forced marriage and human trafficking, as well as less visible patterns of emotional and psychological abuse.

After relocating to Melbourne in 2021, I completed a Master of Counselling, building on that experience with further clinical training in trauma, attachment and relationship difficulties.

Much of my work now is with adults who have experienced difficult or harmful relationships, childhood trauma or emotional neglect and the longer-term effects these experiences can have on self-trust, relationships and the nervous system. People don't always arrive knowing exactly what is wrong or what they want from therapy. Making sense of that can be part of the work.

My role isn't to tell you how you should feel about what happened or what you should do next. I see therapy as a collaborative process: understanding what has shaped the way you respond, recognising what may no longer be serving you, and developing different ways of relating to yourself, other people and difficult experiences.

I work from a trauma-informed and attachment-based perspective, integrating somatic approaches, ACT and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). I am also trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), which I use where appropriate as part of trauma therapy.