
I’m now a therapist and proud to have survived so much. I am a recipient of the degree of life. My ‘CV’ includes:
- PTSD
- CPTSD
- PND
- Loss of career
- Disability
- Chronic Pain
- Family conflict
- Anxiety
Everyone has it in them to survive; it’s innate. It’s the hardest thing you will ever do and it will take a long time. You will never regret your recovery.

I started my own journey in 2012. I didn’t know then that my life would completely change. My own self-work has had such an immense impact on me that I have re-trained to now help others. I believe in long term therapy for lifelong results and that’s what I benefitted from. It is a unique relationship and one I invested in.
I remember when I started seeing a counsellor. I said that I would be returning to work in 5-6 weeks and therefore had an expectation of a timescale. I laugh at that now! I didn’t realise how much I had to uncover, explore, understand and heal. Plus the life events, day-to-day struggles that occurred whilst in therapy and which I benefited from being able to explore at the time they were happening. This deep dive of the past as well as a safe space to explore the present has ended up being the hardest but very best journey. I was with my counsellor for 4 years and I look back on that time as incredibly precious.
During this time, I had some major changes in circumstances occur and as a result I didn’t have my old life open to me anymore. For the first time I began listening to my instincts. I joined a course to explore counselling skills for myself, thinking after 4 years of being a client, I had a pretty good idea of what a therapist should be like. Three years later and I am now a qualified psychotherapist. A career I never would have predicted 7 years ago.
As part of my training I have worked with severe trauma, a range of mental health issues and am able to go wherever a client needs to go. The pace, agenda and direction are set by the client. This is how I healed from things I didn’t even know were holding me back and the unconditional holding (being heard without judgement or restriction) was the basis for that change.
Thanks for reading!

You should be so proud of how far you have travelled on your journey xx