My Experience

Over the years, I've had the privilege of supporting adults from many different backgrounds, professions, and walks of life. While every person's story is unique, many of the people I work with appear capable and resilient on the outside but privately feel anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or disconnected from themselves. Therapy offers a space to slow down, make sense of these experiences, and begin to understand the patterns that may be keeping them stuck.

I frequently work with adults in their 30s and 40s who are balancing careers, caregiving responsibilities, relationship challenges, life transitions, and growing self-awareness. Many come to therapy because they want more than simply coping strategies, they want to understand themselves more deeply and create lasting change.

Supporting Professionals, Creatives and High Achievers

My clinical experience includes supporting people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic stress, burnout, grief, low self-esteem, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and relationship difficulties. I've worked with professionals across a wide range of sectors, including charities, technology, academia, media, healthcare (including the NHS), and the creative industries.

Although each person's circumstances are different, I've found that many people share a common experience: they have spent years coping, achieving, or caring for others while quietly neglecting their own emotional needs. Together, we explore not only the challenges you're facing now but also the deeper patterns and experiences that may have shaped them.

Neurodiversity-Affirmative Practice

A significant part of my work is supporting neurodivergent adults, including people who are formally diagnosed as well as those who are self-identifying or exploring whether ADHD or autism may help explain their experiences. Many of my clients discover their neurodivergence later in life, often after years of masking, feeling different, or believing they simply needed to "try harder."

As a neurotypical counsellor, I combine professional training in neurodiversity-affirmative practice with personal experience of living alongside neurodivergent family members. This has deepened my understanding of masking, sensory overwhelm, burnout, rejection sensitivity, and the emotional impact of spending years feeling misunderstood. My aim is to provide a space where you don't have to hide parts of yourself. Together, we work towards greater self-understanding, self-compassion, and a way of living that feels more sustainable and authentic.

Women's Wellbeing

I also have a particular interest in supporting women experiencing burnout alongside thyroid conditions, perimenopause, and menopause. Hormonal changes can affect mood, anxiety, energy levels, confidence, concentration, and relationships, yet many women feel these experiences are misunderstood or dismissed.

Therapy can offer space to explore the emotional impact of these changes alongside the other demands of life, helping you reconnect with yourself with greater compassion rather than self-criticism.

Grief and Loss

Between 2022 and 2025, I volunteered as a bereavement counsellor at St Michael's Hospice in St Leonards-on-Sea, supporting people living with grief following the death of a loved one, including those experiencing complex or long-term grief.

This work reinforced my belief that grief does not follow a timeline. Loss can arise through bereavement, relationship endings, changes in health, identity, fertility, work, or other significant life transitions. Rather than something we simply "move on" from, grief is often something we gradually learn to carry while finding meaning and connection again.

Cultural Awareness

Having lived, travelled, and worked in different countries and cultures, I understand that our upbringing, language, family values, and cultural experiences all shape how we understand ourselves and express our emotions. I bring curiosity and cultural sensitivity to this aspect of my work and welcome conversations about identity, belonging, migration, and navigating different cultural expectations.

I am bilingual in English and Polish.

Before Becoming a Therapist

Before training as a counsellor, I worked in both corporate and creative environments, including running my own business. Those experiences gave me first-hand insight into the pressures of demanding careers, self-employment, uncertainty, balancing multiple responsibilities, and the challenge of trying to meet everyone's expectations while losing sight of your own needs.

These experiences continue to inform my work today, helping me understand the realities many clients face while bringing both empathy and practicality into the therapy room.