How I work
Together With & Alongside You
Couples and Relationships
There are so many reasons why couples come for counselling.
Perhaps the challenges and busyness of life have taken their toll on your relationship, and you've gradually drifted apart. Maybe communication has become difficult, you're having the same arguments over and over, or you no longer feel like you're working as a team.
Relationships can be affected by so many things — becoming parents, blending families, differences in parenting, work or financial pressures, illness, changes in circumstances, difficulties with intimacy or sex, or simply the demands of everyday life. Couples can also find themselves struggling to understand each other when they experience and respond to the world in very different ways. This can be particularly true when one or both partners are neurodivergent, or are beginning to explore what that might mean for them.
You may have reached a point where you're questioning whether your relationship can continue. You may even know that you want to separate but need some support to make that process as respectful and manageable as possible.
Whatever has brought you to counselling, I won't tell you what you should do or whether you should stay together or separate. I will provide a safe space where you can both be heard and explore what is happening between you.
I work collaboratively with couples, taking the time to understand both perspectives. We can explore how you communicate, how you respond to one another and the patterns you may have found yourselves caught up in.
Having the opportunity to slow things down and really listen to one another can make space for a different kind of conversation. Counselling may help you reconnect and experience a more fulfilling relationship, or help you understand that things need to change.
Whatever the outcome, my role is to support you both in finding a way forward that feels right for you.
Adult Clients
I also work with individual adults who may be feeling anxious, worried, overwhelmed, angry, lonely or simply not quite themselves.
Perhaps you feel unheard or misunderstood, or you're struggling with your identity and trying to understand who you are. Maybe something has happened in your life that you're finding difficult to cope with, or you simply know that things don't feel right but aren't sure why.
For some people, understanding themselves can also involve exploring neurodivergence. You may already identify as neurodivergent, or perhaps you're wondering whether ADHD or autism might help explain some of the things you've experienced throughout your life. We can explore this together and consider how it may affect the way you understand yourself, communicate, manage relationships or navigate everyday life.