My Specialties & Services

Are you currently suffering with mood swings that are affecting you everyday life? Do you find them confusing and hard to understand? Would you like to find out why you feel this way? Then I can help. Mood swings can be caused by many different things; however there is a strong link with mood swings and mental health problems. I can support you in exploring and finding out whether there are any triggers for your mood swings or long term reasons. Then together we can find new ways for you to deal with these feelings and even find ways in which you can change, to support you in feeling better and stabilizing your mood swings.

Stress can be helpful in small doses, it can help you work under pressure and motivate you to achieve. However when you begin to feel burnt out or overwhelmed and feelings of anxiety take over, it is time to take action and regain some balance in your life.

If this is how you feel? Then I can help. We can work together to identify and recognize your symptoms and/or specific triggers and occurrences. We can then explore how you got to this position and together we can find ways to help you resolve these feelings of stress and anxiety. I will support you in being able to move forward and gain more balance in your life.

You might feel nervous about contacting me, because you are not really sure why you need to speak to someone, but you know you are struggling with difficult feelings and need to reach out. If this is you, don’t be afraid, you do not need a specific reason to speak to me. You can share your thoughts, feelings and emotions and I will not judge you or tell you what to do. The art therapy room is a safe place to talk and the art materials can support you in this process if you choose you use them.  Or you can just talk, that is what I am here for to listen and support.

Families can be a great source of support, encouragement and love but this is not always the case. Sometimes families are put under strain and at some point all families face difficult situations or problems that make things hard to deal with.  You may be feeling isolated, overlooked or emotional and confused, in your current family situation. If this is you I can help, we can work together so that you might gain an understanding of what is going on and how it affects you. Together we can explore different ways that you could support yourself, in your current situation. I can also support you in finding a more positive position for you in your family, so that you can feel revitalized and move forward.

Have you recently lost your job and are feeling angry, hurt or depressed? You are also most likely experiences feelings of loss and bereavement too. Well this is not surprising losing a job is one of life’s most stressful experiences. It is normal for you to be impacted profoundly. Losing your job affects how you feel about your professional identity, your self-esteem and how you might be seen in your social network. I suspect you are also feeling insecure having lost the security that your job provided as well as losing your regular daily structure and routine. If you are feeling this way, I can help you. We can work together to reflect on the way in which you job loss has impacted you and the art therapy room gives you a safe space to grieve that loss. I can also guide and support you in being able to make the changes that you need, which will help you to move forward with a new found sense of who you are.

Do you find yourself struggling with feelings of sadness and sometimes not even know why? Do feel tearful for no particular reason? Do you feel less able to cope with everyday life and are left feeling numb and empty? You may be suffering from depression and I can help. There are many reasons why we become depressed and I will help you explore and discover possible reasons why you might feel this way.

I will help you rediscover your authentic self, and to reinvigorate you so that you recognize your own values and meet your own needs. This is not about being selfish this is about self-care.

Are you finding it hard to sleep, despite feeling exhausted all the time? Perhaps you are even reaching out desperately trying anything to help. You may even be trying alcoholic drinks or drugs, prescription or otherwise but are finding nothing is helping. Then I can help you. There is a link between irregular sleep cycles and mental health. The lack of sleep makes you feel tired, which then prevents you coping with everyday life, which then makes you feel bad effecting your self esteem, which then causes you to stress and worry more which then prevents you being able to sleep. I can help you reflect and explore this negative cycle and support you in finding new ways of being, which in turn should enable your sleep pattern to improve.

Have you been affected by infidelity in your relationships? Then I can help. Infidelity does not always happen because of unhappiness or dissatisfaction in the relationship and there is rarely just one reason, in fact it is usually very complex. However it is vital that you understand the reasons why it happened, so that you can come to terms with it. We can work together to explore the reasons, which will be painful and will take time but I will be with you on that journey, you won’t be alone. Together we can find ways for you to make change so things will be different in the future and I will support you in finding ways to rebuild the trust in your future relationships.