Psychological Therapy

I offer individual psychological therapy using ACT, CBT, CFT, and EMDR. My work is grounded in helping adults navigate trauma, identity shifts, and moral injury with clarity and compassion — especially those in high-pressure roles or after significant life transitions.

Sometimes you need more support to address specific difficulties or longstanding problems.  Therapy is a space to explore difficult thoughts, emotions, and life experiences, helping you gain the skills & insights to make meaningful changes in your life.

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You may feel stuck, low, angry, anxious, or disconnected, or like you’re no longer sure who you are. These are the kinds of moments where therapy can help—not by “fixing” you, but by helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that still work, still care, and still want to move forward.

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Who I Work With

I work with people facing a range of issues:

• People struggling with mood, anxiety, or stress

• People feeling stuck, procrastinating, or struggling to make changes to their life

• Trauma and moral injury, including those occurring in uniformed service contexts

• Identity disruption after major life changes (e.g. military transition, divorce, burnout)

• Long-standing difficulties with anxiety, avoidance, shame, or anger

• Complex, overlapping challenges that don’t always fit neat labels
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Common presenting issues include:

• PTSD & Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD),

• OCD,

• Social Anxiety,

• Panic Disorder

• Depression, grief, and emotional shutdown

• Moral injury,

• Burnout, and meaning collapse

 

The list is not exhaustive and many people may be struggling with mix of difficulties that do not fit neatly into a particular diagnosis. I have experience working with a wide range of mental health difficulties, and with complex presentations, including those related to trauma, PTSD and moral injury, utilising a range of evidence based, proven approaches.

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My Approach:

I combine evidence-based psychological therapies with a flexible, pragmatic, & a highly individualised psychological assessment and formulation approach.  now.

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In our initial assessment, we will build an understanding of your unique difficulties, what’s been tried before, and what matters to you, before deciding together how best to address them, drawn from the following psychological approaches, in order to meet your goals for our work together. 

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ACT:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is evidence-based transdiagnostic (able to be applied across specific diagnoses) therapy helps people learn strategies to live life more in the present, more focused on important values and goals, and less caught up in painful thoughts, feelings and experiences. It helps people learn to replace unworkable control and avoidance strategies, that maintain their difficulties and place unnecessary limits on their lives, with new strategies to become more psychologically flexible and more able to consistently engage in life enhancing behaviours to improve their lives. 

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CBT: 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an evidence based structured therapy, recognising how past experience influences our beliefs about the world, ourselves, and others, and how those beliefs interact with our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, to maintain the symptoms of psychological problems and limit our ability to live as we wish in the present.  CBT can be helpful either as a short term therapy, focused on specific problems such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Health Anxiety, Depression, Generalised Anxiety, and PTSD, or as a long-term therapy where problems are complex or are long-standing.

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CFT: 

Compassion Focused Therapy is a transdiagnostic (able to be applied across specific diagnoses) It aims to help people develop compassionate toward themselves and other people. It is particularly helpful for people who struggle with excessive self-criticism or shame based problems drawing on theory and technique from a range of evidence based psychological modalities.

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EMDR: 

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is an evidence-based psychotherapy that uses bilateral eye movements to aid the re-processing of  traumatic memories that significantly impact the present. It is particularly effective in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex-PTSD (multiple traumatic events) as well as other persistent problems with a strong connection to traumatic experiences.

 

What to Expect:

• Sessions are held online, offering flexibility and privacy

• Formulation-led: We’ll build a clear understanding of your challenges and needs

• Goal-oriented: You’ll define what “better” looks like—we’ll work towards that, not towards abstract ideals

• Pragmatic interventions rooted in science: Everything we do will be supported by an evidence-based approach
   

Availability:

I offer a small number of therapy slots to ensure depth and quality in the work. At present, my books are closed—but if you'd like to be notified of future availability, feel free to contact me.