Before becoming a psychotherapist, I worked as a journalist for women’s glossy magazines for 16 years. It was a career that was high-energy and a lot of fun, and enabled me to travel and meet all sorts of people. But the pull towards helping others, alongside doing a lot of work on myself to find peace with my own struggles and understand where they came from, led me to re-train as a psychotherapist.

I’ve always been curious about people and their experiences, and that curiosity is a really important part of how I work as a therapist. I try not to label people or make assumptions about why they feel the way they do. Instead, I approach each person with an open mind and a genuine curiosity about their own experience of the world. I want to understand what has shaped you, why you might feel or respond in the way you do, and what might be sitting underneath the difficulties you’re experiencing now.

I’ve never lost my love of writing and have since brought my two worlds together as the author of The Little Stress Relief Workbook and Find Your Path Through Imposter Syndrome.