Motivated by a great desire to empower children to love life and live up to their full potential, I became a PTUK Accredited Play & Creative Arts Therapist, and furthered my career to also being a Clinical Supervisor, Children and Young People’s Counsellor, and Parent-Child Attachment Play Licenced Practitioner.
Whilst I spent 7 years in a multi-disciplinary clinic working closely with those with Sensory Processing Difficulties and Trauma, I also provide help for anxious, angry, depressed, and dysregulated young people with or without a diagnosis.
I am fascinated by the play behaviours children use to communicate their feelings, thoughts and anxieties, and because of this, I have studied the use of play as a psychotherapeutic medium to understand and address behaviours that are considered disruptive to the children themselves and/or to those around them.
I particularly enjoy offering an Integrative Holistic approach with a trauma-informed lens; this approach brings together the range of psychotherapeutic techniques to meet your needs whilst giving the child full autonomy over their sessions to find solutions to their problems in a way that is meaningful to them.
Whilst I work with the child and respect their right to confidentiality, I invite parents and professionals to become partners in their child’s therapeutic journey. I truly believe that together we can effectively increase children’s mental health and see them fully experience the joy of living and learning.
Relevant qualifications include:
- PQ Cert Counselling for Children & Young People (ongoing)
- PQ Cert Clinical Supervision (2022)
- PG Dip Play & Creative Arts Therapy (2018)
- PG Cert Therapeutic Play Skills (2017)
- HNC Early Education and Child Care (2013)
Relevant training includes:
- Parent-Child Attachment Play [PCAP] (2024)
- TraumaPlay Foundational Training (2023)
- Non-Violent Resistance [NVR] Level 1 (2023)