LGBTQ+ Therapist in Exeter and Online |
Registered Member MBACP, Accredited Registrant MNCPS (Acc.)
Trans, neuro-affirming, poly-friendly counselling and psychotherapy
Before training as a therapist, I spent over a decade in Academia, studying and teaching in the humanities, and another decade working as a creative. I am intimately familiar with both the pressures and joys of intellectual and creative pursuits.
Now in my 40s, I bring to the work a wealth of lived experience as an immigrant, a transmasculine person, and a passionate advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. I have been on my own journey of recovery from different forms of trauma and am privileged to be working with people facing similar challenges. I am acutely aware of the fact that people can sit at the intersections of multiple forms of oppression and marginalisation at once. We are social beings inhabiting a world facing climate collapse and increasing threats to freedom. In my experience, issues of power and cultural complexity will always, in some form, find their way into the counselling room. I do not shy away from how our social and political worlds affect mental health, while I also hold firmly onto our personal responsibility and power to heal.
Counselling Qualifications & Membership
- Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Level 5, Iron Mill College & Connexus Institute)
- Certificate in Counselling (Iron Mill College)
- British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy Registered Member (421963)
- National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society Accredited Registrant (NCPS6496)
I am fully insured, DBS-checked, GDPR-compliant, ICO-registered, and I receive regular clinical supervision.
Selected training & CPD (2024-2026)
- Trauma & abuse
- Working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse (Carolyn Spring)
- Working with survivors of spiritual abuse (Intercom Trust)
- Working with Trauma and Complex Trauma, Shame, Dissociation, PTSD and C-PTSD (PESI; Carolyn Spring; BACP)
- Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence (SHOUT)
- Safeguarding Adults Level 1 and 2 (SHOUT)
- Neurodiversity & creative methods
- Neuro-affirmative therapy for Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, and other neurodivergent clients, with a focus on trauma (PESI)
- Working with dreams (Iron Mill College)
- Sand tray therapy and other creative interventions (Intercom Trust; Iron Mill College)
- Identity & relationship diversity
- LGBTQ+ affirming therapy (Intercom Trust)
- Kink & BDSM awareness (Pink Therapy)
- Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity (polyamory, relationship anarchism, ethical non-monogamy) (Intercom Trust; Pink Therapy; BACP)
Alongside formal courses, my practice is informed by ongoing reading, peer learning and clinical supervision, particularly in parts work, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems-informed approaches, complex trauma, psychodynamic perspectives on treating adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and gender, sexuality, & relationship diversity.
A fuller record of my CPD is available on request.