Allow yourself the grace to fall apart—it’s part of healing. And when you’re ready, we’ll rebuild, one step at a time.
Welcome
Starting therapy is a brave and meaningful step, and I invite you to take a moment to acknowledge that courage — it’s no small thing. I understand that this process can feel overwhelming at first. Which therapist to choose? What approach might work best? These questions can be daunting, and it’s okay to feel unsure. The truth is, no one really knows the answer better than you. You hold within you the wisdom and strength to guide this journey, shaped by your unique life experiences, perspectives, and inherent qualities. My role is to walk alongside you, offering support and understanding as we explore whatever you bring into our sessions—knowing that it will evolve as our connection deepens. Whether you’re facing anxiety, depression, feelings of low self-worth, grief, relationship struggles, the weight of complex trauma, PTSD, OCD, or simply seeking clarity in a world that can feel overwhelming, I’m here to offer compassion, care, and a safe space to navigate it all together.
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About psychotherapy
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Specialisms & Clinical Experience
CPD-accredited Trauma-Informed Practice 2022 - BPS
Module A: Understanding Trauma
ACEs and later life outcomes, brain development and trauma, attunement vs attachment, impact of trauma, PTSD and FASD in behaviour, secondary trauma, how trauma affects interaction with authority, protective factors and resilience, importance of relationship and breaking of intergenerational cycle of adversity.
Module B: Implementing trauma-informed practice.
Why implement Trauma-informed practice, principles upon SAMHSA model, TI language, behaviour and reactions, how to respond, how to identify, delivery, tools and materials, self-care strategies for working with traumatised individuals, how to avoid re-traumatisation and case studies.
Working Effectively with Addiction & Recovery 2023 - UKCP, CPD-accred.
Exploration and application in both group and individual psychotherapy settings and the therapist’s role in the dependency matrix. Practical, empathic and greater spiritual understanding of “the addict” and their journey from psychic ruin to sustainable recovery. In addition; Recognising and understanding the process called “addiction, Implementing psycho-socio-bio-eco models of dependency, Understanding why clients with dependency need something more from psychotherapy, Identify the most common error of well-meaning psychotherapists which can perpetuate the system of pain, Engaging with the client’s denial and motivation to engage in healing, Understanding the emotional syndrome of pain, shame, craving and lapse, Identifying crises and cravings as opportunities for healing, Locating addiction within family systems and attachment patterning, Activating Interpersonal and Social healing systems, The place of interventions such as Motivational Interviewing, CBT, Group Therapy, 12 Step Psychology, Storytelling and Psychodynamics, Considering Codependence as the underlying driver of unhealthy dependencies, Enhancing relationship with self, other and world as the site of recovery, Addressing the trauma of addiction, Sustaining recovery and utilising challenges for further growth.
How to Safely Provide Counselling Online: Coronavirus 2022 - BACP
This CPD-accredited course has been jointly developed by the OU and the BACP as a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to offer a primer on working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist at a time when face-to- face therapy is neither possible with the focus on safeguarding and working safely with the client online.
Working Compassionately with Anxiety & Depression 2024 - UKCP, CPD-accred.
Theoretical and experiential learning, integrating relational and outcome oriented priorities according to a client’s growing connection to self and environment. You will explore some of the core effective components of diverse therapeutic possibilities, including the helpful and problematic aspects of setting goals, re-opening sensory feedback systems, self-induced states of relaxation and developing autonomous decision making. MIndfulness and Ericksonian approaches will be explored along with other Social & Interpersonal models of psychotherapybe one of your services
Working Creatively with Trauma & Triggers 2024 - UKCP, CPD-accred.
The effects of trauma are so often expressed as destructive symptoms and beliefs that clients may seek to “get rid of” or “learn to put up with”. This internal conflict against one’s own self-preserving patterning can perpetuate rather than alleviate suffering.
In the 21st Century we have a better understanding than ever before of the impact of trauma on the developing brain and what makes healing, growth and restructuring possible and likely. Understanding the mind-body system as a life-seeking whole can open up pathways to expression and healing that are not available through purely cognitive or analytic approaches.
A greater sensitivity to somatic awareness will enable trainees to attend respectfully to a client’s physical, cognitive and emotional states, and their wider context. Understanding dissociative and re-associative process can help put the client back in their seat of natural power to restore, resolve and find meaning in all of life’s experiences.
A Talk on Childhood Trauma and Attachment 2018 - British Psychological Society (BPS), CPD-accred.
A talk by Serdar Arslan (Cert (Psych), LLB (Hons), MSc (Psych), MBPsS. Include definitions and types of trauma, contemporary research on trauma, complex trauma, correlations between serious mental health illness and people with complex and adverse backgrounds. Case studies, visual clips, appropriate psychological interventions for untreated trauma, ST, Trauma-informed Care and PIE.
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