What’s the point of psychotherapy: fixing, healing, or growth?
Psychotherapy isn’t about fixing what’s broken, it’s about connection, compassion and understanding. Explore why we delay seeking help and how therapy heals through relationship.
The importance of rest
Self-care felt like another demand until I understood rest the hard way. A counsellor’s perspective on autism, burnout, and capacity.
Therapy over Zoom as an autistic person
An honest look at how Zoom therapy and online groups feel for an autistic person; exploring eye contact, masking, energy, and the search for connection.
When therapy feels like another place to mask
For autistic and ADHD people who feel they have to mask in therapy, finding a space in person-centred psychotherapy where you can finally stop pretending and just be.
What autistic and ADHD clients look for from psychotherapy
What do autistic and ADHD clients need from therapy, and how can person-centred psychotherapy meet them with understanding, not correction? This blog explores how a neuroaffirming, non-pathologising approach can offer safety, choice, and space to unmask.
What does ‘relational’ mean in relational person-centred psychotherapy?
For me, relational person-centred psychotherapy means showing up fully as myself and building a real, mutual relationship with my clients. One where healing and growth happen through empathic, caring connection, authenticity, and trust in your actualising tendency
Person-centred psychotherapy, a values-based approach
In this post, I share how my values-based, person-centred approach to psychotherapy is grounded in the belief that clients have an innate capacity for growth and healing. I explore how trust, autonomy, and deep empathy shape the way I work in the therapy room, creating the conditions for meaningful change.
Empathy in person-centred psychotherapy
Empathy in person-centred psychotherapy is a genuine, human connection that helps clients feel truly understood. It's not a technique, but a shared, values-based process rooted in presence, care, and authenticity.
What is neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity is the idea that everyone’s neurology, brain, and mind is naturally unique, but that different patterns and styles of processing can be grouped together.
Being an autistic therapist
It is a strange thing to describe yourself as an autistic psychotherapist. As a person-centred psychotherapist, empathy is my bread-and-butter. So how can I reconcile my beliefs in the importance of empathy, with my autism? I thought autistic people couldn’t empathise? These were the questions I was asking myself a few years ago when I started to realise I might be autistic.