ABOUT ME | Helping People Understand
Relationships, Conflict & Repeating Patterns
People often reach out when relationships have started to feel difficult, confusing, distant, or emotionally exhausting. Sometimes it’s conflict with a partner, family member, friend, or colleague. Sometimes it’s noticing the same situations repeating over and over again and not fully understanding why.
At the Interpersonal Hub, I focus on the connection between relationships and emotional wellbeing, helping people make sense of communication difficulties, conflict, life changes, loss, and the impact relationships can have on how we feel about ourselves and others.
HOW I WORK
My work is rooted in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), a relationship-focused approach that looks at how experiences with other people can affect emotional wellbeing, confidence, communication, and day-to-day life.
The work often explores what is happening between people, how certain patterns develop, and why some situations can continue to feel painful or difficult to move forward from.
Sessions are conversational, reflective, and adapted to the individual, couple, or family members involved.
Alongside online counselling across the UK, walk and talk sessions are available in Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas.
Some people find walking side-by-side outdoors feels less intense than sitting in a therapy room. Movement, fresh air, and open space can help conversations flow more naturally and create room to reflect differently on difficult situations.
Walk and talk sessions are available for individuals, relationship work, and reflective support.
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Why Relationship Work Matters To Me
Relationships shape so much of how people experience themselves and the world around them. Feeling unheard, disconnected, criticised, rejected, or emotionally alone can affect confidence, mood, stress, and everyday life in ways people often underestimate.
Much of my work focuses on helping people better understand those experiences, communicate more openly, and make sense of the situations they can feel stuck within.
Professional Background and Experience
Professional Recognition
I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an accredited Interpersonal Psychotherapist with IPT UK.
Accreditation reflects recognised professional standards for training, ethical practice and ongoing professional development.
Qualifications
My initial professional training was in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling, an approach that brings together different psychological perspectives to support understanding of people’s experiences.
Following this, I undertook specialist training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), which now forms the foundation of my therapeutic work.
Years of Practice
I have worked therapeutically with clients for over 17 years.
During that time I have supported people experiencing a wide range of emotional and relational difficulties, developing a depth of experience in understanding how relationships and life events influence wellbeing.
Professional Settings
My work has taken place across a variety of environments including the NHS, the charity sector, and services connected with blue light organisations.
These settings have involved working with people from many different backgrounds and life circumstances, often during periods of significant change and difficulties.
Training and Teaching
Alongside my clinical work I have spent the past four years training and supervising qualified therapists in Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
I also develop and deliver workshops, training sessions and group learning spaces focused on relationships, communication and interpersonal understanding.
Ongoing Development
Professional learning continues throughout my career through supervision, further training and reflective practice. This ongoing development helps ensure that my work remains thoughtful, up to date and grounded in good professional practice.
Ethical and Professional Standards
You are welcome to contact me if you would like further information about the training and professional development I have undertaken. I am also happy to provide details of the qualifications and specialist training that inform my practice.
My work is guided by the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions and the IPT UK Code of Conduct, and copies of these ethical frameworks can be requested if you would like to review them.