Why ADHD?

I have ADHD myself, and was only diagnosed in my mid 30s (despite working for many years in neurodevelopmental NHS teams, assessing and diagnosing children with autism and ADHD!). I know firsthand what it's like to spend years wondering why things that seemed easy for everyone else felt so hard, and what changes when you finally have an explanation and a way to work alongside your specific strengths and difficulties. My assessments and coaching work are informed by both clinical training and lived experience, and I have a particular interest in supporting adults with a late ADHD diagnosis. The vast majority of my clients present with varying combinations of neurodiversity, and I operate from a very neuroaffirming place.

Outside the therapy room

You'll find me strength training, cold water swimming, dancing 5Rhythms, listening to music (ideally live!), travelling, eating pastries, spending time with good friends, or outside in nature. I live in North Somerset, south of Bristol, with my young family. I'm a firm believer that the things I teach about regulation, rest and sustainable pace only work if I actually practise them myself.

Working together

I'm not a silent, nodding therapist. I'll offer my thoughts, make suggestions, and help you join the dots between things you might not have connected. Sessions with me aren't always chairs and talking either: we might get up and move, work with the breath, or map things out on giant sheets of paper. I take your struggles seriously, and I’ll be alongside you to go to hard places together. There's a lot of warmth and often laughter in my therapy room too - serious work doesn't have to be joyless.

I work with adults across the UK online, and in person in Clifton, Bristol. I am also available to see clients worldwide, please contact for more information. Wherever you're starting from, my aim is the same: a warm, non-judgemental space where you can make sense of what's going on and find a way forward that actually lasts.

My professional journey

I lived and trained in London, first at the Institute of Family Therapy, before completing my doctorate in psychotherapeutic and counselling psychology at the University of Surrey. I worked across the NHS and third sector, and set up my first private practice. Then in 2017 I left the UK for nearly three years. I trained in a variety of yoga approaches in both north and south India, sat a 10-day silent meditation retreat in South Africa, taught yoga on the Kenyan coast, and spent a year volunteering in Uganda's only dedicated inpatient mental health hospital, alongside teaching and training health professionals across the country. That time abroad shaped how I work now: it's where psychology and embodiment stopped being separate things for me.

I relocated back to the UK, moved to Bristol, returned to the NHS, and rebuilt my private practice alongside it. But in 2020 I left the NHS for good, after a period of burnout that taught me more about stress, boundaries and recovery than any textbook. Building a practice from scratch, and making the classic mistakes along the way (undercharging, overworking, saying yes to everything), is exactly why I now help other therapists do it differently, from the body up, in Into Practice.

Along the way I've been lucky to work in an unusually wide range of places: NHS child and adult mental health services, a residential centre for military veterans with PTSD, a children's domestic violence charity, palliative care, and an equine therapy charity. These days that range looks a bit different. Alongside my clinical work, I provide comment for media publications, record video content as an expert for Grokker (a global wellbeing platform), deliver training, webinars and executive coaching for large corporations (previous clients include: Unilever, eBay and Lloyds Bank), and have taught acroyoga, mind-body connection and breathwork workshops at music festivals. Every setting has taught me something different about people: in their struggles, resilience, and recovery. Very little surprises me now, and nothing you bring will be too much.

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Training and qualifications

Psychology

• Practitioner Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology, University of Surrey

• Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

• Registered with the British Psychological Society as a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol)

• BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Bath

• Full 4-part EMDR training

• Integrated EMDR & IFS Model - Level 1

• Graduate Certificate and Postgraduate Certificate in Systemic Practice with Families and Couples, Institute of Family Therapy (Qualified Systemic Practitioner)

• CATT (Child Accelerated Trauma Training)

• BPS Registered Supervisor Training

• UKAAN Diagnosis and Assessment of Adults with ADHD

Yoga and embodiment

• 200hr Ashtanga (Himalaya Yoga Valley, India)

• 300hr Embodied Flow (Body Module)

• Embodied Yoga Principles: The Embodied Toolkit Certification

• Shake The Dust training, 50hr Embodied Yin, Embodied Mama pregnancy yoga, children's yoga, somatic cueing.

Academic

• External lecturer, marker and thesis supervisor, UCL Child and Adolescent Mental Health MSc (2018 to 2021)

• Published research on mental health beliefs and knowledge among health professionals in Uganda (2021), Child and Adolescent Mental Health.