About
I’m a BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with an MSc in Counselling Psychology (Distinction). My therapeutic training began in counselling psychology, and I later undertook an intensive programme of training in CBT. Both continue to shape how I work.
Professional background
I work in private practice with adults, offering both focused and longer-term therapy. I have worked clinically since 2014, across university, specialist and community mental-health settings. This has included adult and bereavement counselling, group work, several years working therapeutically with children and young people through Mind, and providing assessment, counselling and CBT to students and staff at the University of Manchester.
My CBT work has included high-intensity therapy for anxiety and depression, as well as clinical supervision and training. I was also a senior lecturer at Derby University, where I had a lead role on a postgraduate high-intensity CBT training programme within the NHS’s IAPT scheme for children and young people. There, I trained experienced NHS mental-health staff and developed course material.
Across these roles, I have worked with people at very different stages of life and backgrounds.
Qualifications and accreditation
Accredited member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
BABCP membership number: 180743
Postgraduate Diploma in High Intensity CYP IAPT CBT for Anxiety and Depression, Greater Manchester Mental Health / University of Manchester
MSc Counselling Psychology, Keele University
Additional academic background
BA (Hons), University of Cambridge
Particular interests
I have a particular interest in the relationship between cognitive behavioural, humanistic and psychoanalytic ways of thinking about therapy. My formal therapeutic training is principally in CBT and humanistic approaches, the latter through my MSc in Counselling Psychology. Alongside this, I have engaged with psychoanalytic thinking over many years through study groups, continuing professional development and personal therapy. I am interested in what each perspective can illuminate, and in what can be learned when their differences and tensions are kept in view rather than resolved too quickly.
Within CBT, I have been especially interested in transdiagnostic approaches. My high-intensity CBT training placed substantial emphasis on disorder-specific treatments for difficulties including OCD, panic disorder, generalised anxiety, phobias, health anxiety, social anxiety, PTSD and depression. I remain experienced in these approaches, while also being interested in what happens when difficulties are chronic, overlap, or do not fit neatly within a single diagnostic or treatment framework. I also have considerable experience working with people with ADHD and autism. Much of my continuing professional interest has therefore concerned how therapy can respond to complexity.
Professional standards
I undertake ongoing clinical supervision and continuing professional development, and work within the scope of my competence and BABCP professional standards. I also routinely review clinical outcomes and feedback from people I work with as part of reflecting on and developing my practice.