I'm a HCPC-registered psychologist passionate about helping people reconnect with themselves. I'm also a mum of three, and I've built my practice around the belief that therapy should fit your life, not the other way around.

My work is grounded in professional training and personal understanding in equal measure. I'm registered with ACAT as a CAT Practitioner, a member of the British Psychological Society, and my research has been published in the British Journal of Pain.

But what shapes how I actually sit with people goes beyond qualifications.

I've been thinking about what it really means to help someone through the hard stuff. I don't think it's training alone (though the training matters). I think it's also what happens when you've been dashed against the rocks yourself.

There have been a lot of those moments in my own life. Some more recent than others.

Being dashed against rocks does something to you, if you let it. For me, it made me a lighthouse. Not in a way that's above it all... a lighthouse doesn't escape the storm. It just knows where the rocks are, and stays lit so others can find their way through.

My training gave me the skills to sit with people in their hardest moments. My life gave me something else... the ability to genuinely understand what it feels like when the ground disappears. And to know how different it is to have someone walk alongside you rather than face it alone.

That's why I choose this work.