About Me

My work is rooted in a long personal and professional exploration of what becomes possible when we bring honesty, empathy and attention to those moments.

I’m interested in what happens when we lose contact — with ourselves, with another person, or with what matters to us — and in what can help us find our way back.

My path into this work

Much of what I know about relationships comes from lived experience. I have spent many years engaging with the challenges and possibilities of close relationships, and again and again I have found that difficult moments can also become places of profound learning and change.

My path into counselling didn’t begin in therapy rooms. It began much earlier, with a growing awareness that something was missing in the way I was relating to myself and others.

As a teenager, I was very focused on rational thinking and had learned to disconnect from my emotions — a necessity in an environment in which I was emotionally alone. At some point, someone reflected this back to me in a way that I couldn’t ignore. It was uncomfortable and painful — and also the beginning of a different kind of honesty.

Since then, I have been on a long journey of reconnecting with emotional experience, relationships, and what it means to be fully human.

When I came across Nonviolent Communication in 2014, something clicked. It gave me a language and a practice for what I had been searching for: a way of understanding ourselves and each other that goes beyond blame and into what really matters.

Over the years, this has developed into a deep interest in how we navigate shame, vulnerability, conflict and intimacy — both within ourselves and in our relationships.

How I work

My foundation is person-centred counselling. I also draw on Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, somatic awareness and restorative practices, where these are useful to the work we are doing together.

I’m particularly interested in what happens when we lose contact with ourselves — when we don’t know what we want, find ourselves reacting in ways we don’t understand, or become caught between caring for ourselves and caring for others.

I aim to offer a space where you can slow things down and explore what is happening for you at your own pace, without pressure or judgement. Sometimes that means making sense of something that has been difficult to understand. Sometimes it means finding words for something you have never quite been able to say. Sometimes it means becoming clearer about what you actually want.

I don’t expect relationships to be easy or conflict-free. But I believe that with enough care, honesty and support, difficult experiences can sometimes become places where we find greater clarity and choice.

My experience

Alongside my counselling training, I have many years of experience working with individuals, couples, groups and communities in conflict. My work in Nonviolent Communication has included facilitation, training, mediation and supporting people to stay in dialogue when things are tense or painful.

I have also completed counselling placements with:

• New Pathways, supporting survivors of sexual violence
• The Bereavement Service at Glangwili Hospital

Through my counselling placements, I have supported clients with experiences of trauma, loss, shame and complex emotional challenges. Where helpful, I draw on body awareness and grounding practices alongside talking and reflection.

Background and training

• Foundation Degree in Counselling, Coleg Sir Gâr — completion 2026
• Registered Member of the BACP
• MSc in IT Systems Engineering, Universität Potsdam — completion 2017
• Over 12 years’ experience with Nonviolent Communication and facilitation
• Training in Restorative Circles, Focusing and relational practices
• Facilitation of conflict processes in communities and groups
• Ongoing involvement in international NVC learning communities
• Ongoing professional development and reflective practice, with regular supervision

A little more about me

Outside my work, I live in rural Wales with my two children. I enjoy being outdoors and in community, and I practise meditation and my own spiritual practice.

For several years I lived off-grid in a community setting. Living closely with other people, sharing resources and navigating the inevitable tensions of community life have been an important part of my own learning about relationships, interdependence and conflict.