When you choose a therapist, qualifications are not the whole story.

You are choosing a person, a relationship, and a space where you can feel safe enough to bring what matters. But training, ethics, insurance, supervision, professional standards and continuing development matter deeply too. They form part of the holding structure beneath the work.

My practice brings together advanced trauma training, body-centred root-cause psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, mindfulness, EMDR, NLP/Ericksonian approaches and integrative therapeutic work.

Behind the warmth and relational depth of my practice, there is also rigour.

There is study. There is structure. There is accountability. There is a deep respect for the vulnerability of therapeutic work, and for the trust you place in me.

Advanced InCorr® and Somatic Trauma Training

I am an Advanced Practitioner in Interoceptive Core Reconsolidation Psychotherapy — InCorr® — and Somatic Trauma Therapy, with Level 2 Specialist training.

This is the deeper root-cause part of my work: trauma-informed, phenomenological and body-centred, grounded in safe embodiment, therapeutic presence, relational depth and the careful reconsolidation of primary emotional pain.

My InCorr Level 2 assessment was passed and designated the Gold Standard of Clinical Excellence, recognising my clinical formulation, phenomenological depth, reconsolidation awareness, pacing and resistance analysis.

I include this because deep therapeutic work should never be vague, forced or rushed. It requires attunement, timing, ethical precision and a clear understanding of how change happens.

Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Integrative Training

I am trained in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (Distinction), Solution-Focused Hypno-Psychotherapy (Distinction), Clinical Mindfulness (Distinction), NLP/Ericksonian hypnosis, EMDR and related integrative approaches through the award-winning Central England College / UK College pathway.

The Professional Practitioner Programme is accredited by the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy — APHP — and the National Register of Psychotherapists and Counsellors — NRPC.

My training has included counselling techniques, Rogerian/person-centred and specialised counselling approaches, solution-focused therapy, analytical and regression-informed work, therapeutic metaphor, anxiety states therapy, stress management, IBS and psychosomatic disorders, substance misuse, EMDR, inner child healing, working with children, Gestalt approaches, pain control, ethical safeguards, phobia release, reframing and parts integration.

I do not see these as disconnected techniques. I see them as different ways of listening to the whole person: body, mind, nervous system, story, protective patterns, inner world and authentic self.

Assessed Clinical Practice

My assessed work has received very strong professional feedback, including recognition of safeguarding, rapport, trauma-informed teaching, empathetic listening, use of client language and client-centred delivery.

Feedback on my Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy works is described as excellent, with well-tailored techniques, careful information gathering, appropriate interventions, positive suggestions, future pacing, home practice, use of the client’s own words and clear evidence of client trust.

That matters to me because good therapy is not performance. It is not applying techniques to someone. It is careful, relational, responsive work with the person in front of me.

Mindfulness Teaching, Mindfulness Now, Mindfulness Teachers Association

I am a Certified Clinical Mindfulness Teacher (with Distinction) and a member of The Mindfulness Teachers Association and Mindfulness Now.

My certified mindfulness teacher training is approved by The British Psychological Society through the BPS CPD Quality Mark Scheme.

Mindfulness, in my work, is not used as a quick technique to make feelings disappear. It is part of helping you come back into relationship with yourself: your body, your breath, your inner world, your truth, and your capacity to be with what is here safely.

BLAST Technique®

I am a registered Advanced BLAST Technique® Practitioner, Registration No. ABL18218, and a BLAST Technique® Advanced Practitioner, Registration No. BL16423.

BLAST Technique® — Bi-Lateral Analysis and Stimulation Treatment — is accredited through ACCPH, the professional body for Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Clinical Hypnotherapists.

This sits alongside my wider trauma-informed and body-centred practice, offering another way of working carefully with distress, memory, emotional processing and nervous-system activation.

Insurance and Professional Responsibility

I hold professional indemnity insurance with Balens for all my therapeutic services.

Full professional and insurance details can be provided where appropriate.

I work within my scope of practice, with appropriate consent, confidentiality, safeguarding awareness, professional boundaries and ongoing commitment to continuing professional development.

My intention is always to offer a space that is warm and compassionate, but also professionally held.

A space where you can feel met, not managed.

A space where your symptoms are not reduced to a label.

A space where we can listen carefully to what your body, mind and heart have been carrying — and begin to understand what is needed for healing, growth and return.