My Story
For 24 years I worked in pastoral care in schools, alongside children, young people and their families — usually as the person advocating for them when things were hard.
During the pandemic I realised the work I wanted to do was with adults, so I trained, taking an MA in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths.
I'd resisted therapy myself for years. I assumed it was for people in crisis, and somewhere underneath that was the idea that needing it would say something about me. Then life did what life does, and I went. It was nothing like what I'd braced for, and it still shapes how I understand myself and the people around me.
So I know both sides of the room — two decades of sitting with people in difficulty, clinical training, and my own experience of being the one in the chair, unsure about the whole thing.
No jargon, no judgment, and no assumption that you should have worked this out by now.
Why the Rooted Shed
Therapy is a bit like pulling boxes out of a shed you haven't opened in years.
Some are heavy. You might manage a quick look before you put the lid back on, and that's fine — we'll leave those until you're ready. Others we'll go through properly, sorting what's worth keeping from what you can finally put down. And some just need a bit of organising. Nothing dramatic, just enough to see clearly again.
Not to overhaul who you are. Just to make a bit more room — space to move, and space to breathe.