FLOURISH

Therapy can help with anxiety, overwhelm, disconnection, loss, depression, relationship difficulty, or life becoming hard to navigate.

Sometimes the reasons for distress are clear; sometimes they are harder to name. You do not need to have it all worked out before you begin.

Work with me is trauma-informed, including the impact of Complex PTSD, adversity in childhood, and the effects of marginalisation and abuses of power upon identity, the nervous system, behaviour, and relationships etc - the whole person!

The process begins by getting in touch or booking an initial session. This offers space to think together about what brings you, what you may be hoping for, and whether working together feels right.

As well as being relational and trauma-informed, my approach is upheld by reverence in the human capacity for growth and survival, which is grounded in the person-centred approach.

Therefore, at the heart of my work is a trust in the inner wisdom of the individual, and in each person's capacity for growth. Particularly when cultivated by conditions of empathy, non-judgement, and acceptance.

In striving to fully appreciate you and your journey, I do not focus on symptoms, diagnosis, or only what appears to be wrong. I am interested in real understanding your world of experience and meaning, and facilitate you to softly find your path.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor Frankl

My work is informed by a postgraduate qualification in Psychological Trauma, undertaken alongside working closely with trauma and its impact. This deepened my attention not only to the consequences of distress, but also to its roots: the histories, adversities, relational wounds, and wider conditions that may give rise to it. I am interested in causes as well as consequences, and in how emotional pain can become woven into the body, relationships, sense of self, and ways of coping.



I also recognise that distress does not arise outside the social, cultural, and political worlds we live in. Race, culture, identity, power, exclusion, belonging, and the ways difference is met can all shape how a person experiences themselves, others, and their place in the world. I value difference rather than merely tolerating it, and I aim to work in a way that is attentive to context, power, and the lived complexity of people's identities and experiences.

I am of mixed British and Egyptian heritage, identify as a cis woman (she/her), and live within a non-conventional family structure. I am also non-Arab speaking, and understand that identity is often more layered, complex, and less easily read from the outside than it may first appear.

This informs both my appreciation of difference and my awareness of what it can mean to live between cultures, expectations, or ways of being. Many of my clients are non-white, and for some, it matters to work with a therapist who brings a lived awareness of difference, complexity, and not always fitting neatly into categories.

I began working as a counsellor in 2014, initially as a volunteer, and completed my core Counselling and Psychotherapy degree in 2016. Until recently, I worked as a level-5 Counsellor trainer, whilst developing my practice through further professional training in areas including trauma, EMDR, ecotherapy, supervision, and relationship/couples work. Presently, I am training as a Mindfulness Now Teacher.