My Background

Before training as a psychotherapist, my life revolved around rugby and sports coaching. A career ending shoulder injury disrupted that path and eventually led me first into teaching Physical Education, and later into psychotherapy.

Seeking therapy myself during that period became a significant turning point. I needed space to make sense of change, loss, and identity. Those experiences continue to shape how I work today.

Having lived within high performance environments, I understand from the inside the drive, discipline, self reliance, and sense of responsibility they often demand. I also understand how difficult it can be to slow down, ask for help, or reconsider long established ways of coping when identity has become closely tied to capability, achievement, or resilience.

I believe this allows me to meet clients with realism, respect, and emotional accuracy rather than assumption.

Outside of therapy, I spend much of my time outdoors in Cornwall with my two dogs. Time in nature, movement, and physical challenge remain important parts of my own life and continue to shape how I think about psychological health, particularly for people who find meaning more readily through experience and action than through words alone.

I have completed extensive Master's level (Level 7) psychotherapy training and am in the final stages of registration with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). Alongside private practice, I remain committed to ongoing professional development, clinical supervision, and reflective practice.

Specialist Areas

While much of my work focuses on men and high performers, I also work with women and couples.

Areas I commonly support include:

• Men's mental health, emotional withdrawal, and identity difficulties

• Athletes and high performers facing injury, retirement, or major life transitions

• Performance anxiety, burnout, and chronic stress

• The psychological impact of concussion and brain injury

• Identity reconstruction beyond achievement, performance, or role

• Relationship difficulties, intimacy, and emotional resilience

Across all of this work, therapy remains relational, collaborative, and adult to adult. The aim is not to fix you, but to understand what has shaped you and create greater freedom in how you live and relate now.

Why Work With Me

My work is shaped by three things: my background in sport, my own experience of significant life change, and years of psychotherapy training.

Together, these experiences have taught me that lasting psychological change rarely comes through advice, analysis, or being told what to do. More often, it develops through relationship, reflection, and the opportunity to understand ourselves more fully.

I understand the hesitation many people, particularly men, can feel about beginning therapy. I also understand the importance of not being analysed, managed, or pushed before trust has been established.

I aim to offer a therapeutic relationship that is thoughtful, direct, and grounded. I am not interested in analysing you from a distance or offering quick fixes. Instead, we work together to understand your experience, make sense of longstanding patterns, and create the conditions for change.

If you have reached a point where familiar ways of coping are no longer enough, and you are looking for a space to think, feel, and move forward without losing yourself in the process, I would be glad to work with you.

How I can help

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