What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
CBT is an approach that looks at how your emotions, thoughts, physical sensations and behaviours interact to create patterns.
1. Collaborative:
Together we will challenge unhelpful thinking or behavioural patterns and develop healthier, more supportive coping strategies.
2. Practical and empowering:
You will build skills that last beyond therapy sessions. Together, we´ll explore what’s getting in the way of living the life you want and find practical strategies to help you cope, feel more in control, and regain confidence.
My aim at the beginning is simply that you feel comfortable enough to want to come back to the next session. In the long run, my aim is that you no longer need me, because you’ve learned to be your own therapist.
3. Time limited and focused:
We’ll regularly review your progress within a defined period of time. We explore both your past and how your patterns developed, and we stay focused on what you can change now so that previous experiences do not shape your future.
4. Active:
We will focus on developing practical tools, and you’ll have the chance to practise techniques between sessions and reflect on our conversations, helping you build lasting skills.
5. Goal-oriented:
The initial sessions focus on accurately understanding your situation and how it has developed over time. We explore your past to make sense of your present, and focus on your current goals to create a treatment plan tailored to your individual needs.
How I can support you
While CBT offers a framework, my approach is adapted to your experiences, values, and life context. I work with people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or affected by past or ongoing difficulties, with or without a formal diagnosis.
We might be a good fit if you're experiencing:
- Anxiety, stress, burnout, perfectionism, panic, social anxiety, anger management, self esteem issues, emotional regulation
- Trauma and PTSD, including complex trauma and experiences of sexual violence, abuse, neglect, and other forms of violence
- Hormonal-related emotional difficulties in women, such as PCOS, PMDD and PMS
- Migratory grief and life transitions, including identity struggles, relocation, and living between cultures
- Pressures from social expectations, including how gender roles and living with neurodiversity can affect emotional wellbeing
You don’t need to fit neatly into a category, or have a diagnosis for therapy to be helpful. What matters is how your experiences are affecting you now — and what you want to change.
Special Interest
My areas of special interest include experiences of sexual trauma, who have ADHD, who are going through migratory grief, or who feel how gender roles and social expectations impact their emotional wellbeing.
Emergency and Crisis Support
Important: I am not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health emergency, please contact the appropriate emergency or crisis service immediately.
Emergency Services (UK): 999
Samaritans: 116 123
NHS 111 (mental health support) (UK): 111
Shout Text Support (24/7): Text Shout to 85258