What I bring
I'm an MBACP registered Integrative Arts Counsellor, creative facilitator, and multidisciplined arts practitioner. I founded Create Support because I believe that creativity is one of the most honest languages we have — and that everyone deserves a therapeutic space that works with who they actually are.
My work sits at the intersection of arts practice and therapeutic counselling. I offer 1-1 counselling, community wellbeing workshops, and therapeutic arts consultancy for artists and organisations. These aren't separate things — they're different expressions of the same core belief: that making, expressing, and connecting can be genuinely healing.
My approach
I work integratively, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic, compassion and arts-based approaches — always led by what's right for you. I don't have a fixed method or a single way of working. I follow your lead, and I bring creativity into the space as a tool, not a performance.
You don't need to think of yourself as creative. You don't need art skills. You just need to bring yourself — and we'll find the way in together.
Lived experience
I have personal experience of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and being part of a neurodivergent family. This shapes how I work — I understand what it means to need therapy that's flexible, accessible, and genuinely responsive to your body and your capacity on any given day.
I also come from a background in the arts, and I understand the particular pressures and identity questions that come with creative work and creative careers.
Training & credentials
MBACP Registered (Membership no. 405393)
Associate Member, BAAT (British Association of Art Therapists)
Member, Creative Counsellors CIC
BA Hons Physical Theatre
PGCert Integrative Arts Counselling
Certificate Counselling skills using the arts
Ongoing CPD in trauma-informed practice, neurodivergence, and chronic illness
Regular supervision attended
Outside the therapy room
Alongside my counselling practice I work as a creative facilitator and arts practitioner. I'm currently in development on a folk music theatre project exploring unheard women's histories, and I'm actively involved in the community arts sector.
My approach has been shaped by a lifelong connection to creativity, care, and community — and by learning, early on, to listen for the quieter layers of someone's story.
Before training as a therapist I spent over a decade in health and social care, supporting people with dementia, learning disabilities, and palliative needs, and working closely with family carers. That work grounded me in patience, dignity, and meeting people exactly where they are. A later placement with a community mental health organisation deepened my understanding of how overwhelming support systems can feel — and how much it matters to have someone alongside you who genuinely gets that.
Creativity has always run alongside this. I trained in visual arts, performance, and physical theatre, and I've worked extensively in inclusive arts and community wellbeing — facilitating creative courses with arts and heritage partners, supporting artists on tour, and offering development around inclusive practice and working with psychologically or autobiographically rich material. This is where the therapeutic and the artistic genuinely meet, and it's what I bring to both my counselling work and my consultancy with arts organisations.
I understand what it means to hold multiple identities and roles at once — and the quiet tensions that arise when different parts of life don't align. This helps me support clients navigating their own complexity: identity, relationships, health, belonging, or the expectations placed on them.
All of these threads — creative practice, lived experience, care work, identity, and community involvement — shape the way I show up as a therapist. They help me offer a space that is steady, inclusive, and attuned to the realities of being human, so you can explore your inner world with someone who understands that life is rarely simple or linear.