About Me

I began my counselling journey because I was always told that I was someone that seemed like a good listener. This is something I have always felt there was not enough of in the world. Having a space where someone will simply hear what you have to say and make you feel like what you have to say matters. To feel understood, not judged and provide a space to better explore how you may feel about the stresses you are dealing with.

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I have lived in England, Ireland and Scotland, and during my time in each country, I have had the chance to see the differences and similarities between the people who come from each. I grew up in rural areas, experiencing what it can be like to deal with feeling like an outsider, small town mentality and more conservative thoughts and ideologies. I then moved to bigger cities and felt the changes that come with that, from loneliness and isolation and feeling small. I have experienced struggles with family fallouts, community blowouts and dealing with being labelled as "different".

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I also have plenty of first-hand experience with struggles facing the LGBTQIA+ community as I myself am a part of it. I grew up not knowing why I felt so different from my peers and it took years before I was able to come to terms with my identity realising that I am Trans. Before coming out, I struggled with my sense of self, my identity, who I was and who I wanted to be, my struggles with how others saw me, you name it, I struggled with it! It took a long time and a lot of self-care to better understand these aspects of myself and is one of the reasons I became so passionate about becoming a counsellor myself. I know just how important that space can be to better work out your internal struggles.

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You may be coming specifically to work on your identity, it may be for dealing with current or past trauma, wanting to overcome depression or anxiety, but the thing I want to convey the most is this; whatever your reason for coming to me may be, I care, and I want to help.