For many people, reaching out for support can feel like a huge step, especially if you’ve spent years trying to cope, understand yourself, or hold everything together on your own.

My work is grounded in compassion, lived understanding, and professional therapeutic practice.

I am a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist, Integral Eye Movement Technique (IEMT) Practitioner, and Embodied Processing Practitioner, offering trauma-informed therapeutic support for adults navigating emotional overwhelm, anxiety, burnout, chronic illness challenges, trauma-related patterns, neurodivergent experiences, and feeling stuck despite insight or previous support.

But long before becoming a therapist, I worked in the care industry, supporting people through complex needs and palliative care—and later within complex cerebral palsy care.
Caring for others came naturally to me and was deeply meaningful work.

Then life shifted dramatically.
A few years ago, I became increasingly unwell.
What began as frequent illness and debilitating fatigue gradually progressed to the point where my life became almost unrecognisable.

I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, received working diagnoses of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, and was eventually diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND).

At my worst, I was unable to work, leave the house, sit upright independently, or even feed myself.

The physical symptoms were overwhelming, but what often gets overlooked is the emotional impact of that kind of experience.

The loss of independence.

The isolation.

The grief.

The frustration of not recognising yourself.

The brain fog.

The exhaustion of trying to manage appointments, symptoms, pain, supplements, therapies, advice, and everyday life, while already running on empty.

At times, I felt utterly defeated.

I tried everything I could to improve my wellbeing, CBT, dietary changes, supplements, cold water therapy, infrared therapy, desperately searching for something that would help.

Keeping up with all of it often felt like climbing a mountain whilst carrying a ten-tonne weight.

This wasn’t the life I had imagined.

I was first introduced to hypnotherapy through a friend who had experienced positive changes.

Curious, I booked a short course of sessions.

That decision became a turning point.

Not because everything changed overnight, but because gradually, something began to shift.

For the first time in a long time, I began to experience hope.

Over time, I experienced meaningful changes in my emotional wellbeing, mindset, resilience, and quality of life.

Eventually, I went from being unable to leave the house and relying on a walking stick, to climbing mountains.

That experience changed me profoundly.

Not simply because of the improvement itself, but because it helped me understand something important:

Meaningful change is rarely about simply “trying harder.”

It often involves understanding emotional patterns, stress responses, coping strategies, behavioural conditioning, and the relationship between mind, body, and lived experience.

That journey inspired me to train professionally.

But my understanding of emotional wellbeing didn’t stop there.

Like many people, life experiences had also shaped my relationship with stress, safety, coping, emotional patterns, and the body in ways I would only come to understand much later.

Another deeply important part of my journey has been raising my daughter and supporting her through her own path towards an adult diagnosis of AuDHD (Autism + ADHD).

Through learning alongside her, I began to understand neurodivergence in an entirely new way.

It prompted a much deeper exploration of masking, chronic adaptation, overwhelm, dopamine-seeking behaviours, emotional coping strategies, addictive patterns, sensory experiences, and the many ways people learn to survive in environments that may not have fully understood their needs.

That process also led me into my own journey of neurodivergent self-discovery, making sense of lifelong patterns through a different lens, with greater compassion and understanding.

This personal insight, alongside my professional training, has significantly shaped the way I work.

Because many of the people I support are not lacking awareness.

They are thoughtful, intelligent, highly self-aware adults who often say:

“I understand why I do this… but I still keep doing it.”

That might look like:

• people pleasing
• emotional overwhelm
• burnout
• chronic stress
• emotional eating
• addictive coping patterns
• masking
• self-criticism
• relationship patterns
• emotional shutdown
• feeling disconnected from the body
• feeling stuck despite years of trying to “work on yourself”

My own healing journey eventually incorporated the kinds of approaches I now offer professionally, including solution-focused work, emotional pattern processing, embodied approaches, and techniques that support deeper change where insight alone hasn’t been enough.

Today, my work is grounded in compassion, realism, curiosity, and hope.

Not because I believe everyone’s journey looks like mine.

But because I understand how complex, layered, and deeply human these experiences can be.

If any part of my story or approach resonates with you, I’d be very happy to hear from you.