Getting in touch can be the hardest part. It's very typical to feel hesitant, or to have drafted the email several times.

You can skip to this section which more information about the first session for individual therapy. I also have separate sections on group therapy, friendship therapy and supervision.

Contact me to arrange a first session.

While many short-term therapies focus on surface-level symptom management, depth psychotherapy addresses the root causes of our distress.

Early in life, we develop unconscious scripts about ourselves and the world around us. Though designed to protect us from past overwhelms, these silent patterns often follow us into adulthood, quietly dictating how we live long after the original threat has vanished.

Psychotherapy brings these hidden dynamics into awareness, opening the door to genuine, lasting change.

‘Depth’ is a description rather than a standalone ‘type’ of psychotherapy. Many different modalities and schools of Transactional Analysis aim to work at depth.

I go into more detail here.

Relationship therapy for folk who aren’t romantic partners. Sometimes it’s conflict (or avoidance of it) that brings folk into the room; sometimes it’s something else like shared grief.

Friendships are, for many people, the most significant relationships of their lives.

You might be close friends, former lovers, housemates, bandmates, co-founders, business partners, co-carers. Friendship therapy is relationship therapy - with all the usual aspects you might imagine (communication, deep listening, articulating needs and wants, negotiating boundaries, or perhaps grief).

My core training is in Transactional Analysis.

My practice is mainly psychodynamic and existential. I have also completed certifications in somatic Transactional Analysis, interpersonal neurobiology and gender, sexuality and relationship diversity therapy.

For more details of my certifications, take a look at my About page.

Individual therapy: £63 per session
I have a reduced rate for UKATA/UKCP trainees

Friendship therapy: £75 per session

Group therapy: £27 - £30 depending on the type of group

For information about supervision including fees, please take a look at the Supervision page

I offer the first individual therapy and friendship therapy session for half the usual fee

Mondays: Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy, 454 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 0BQ. This location is close to Chorlton tramstop and bus links.

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Didsbury Counselling and Therapy Centre, 212A Burton Road, M20 2LW. This location is close to Burton Road tramstop and bus links.

I also work online.

I am currently registered with Vitality and WPA

I also contract with employers to work with an employee for a certain number of sessions.

I have more detail about friendship therapy and group therapy pages.

For individual therapy, here are some examples:

• Repeated patterns where you feel stuck

• Anxiety, including social anxiety, and stress

• Life changes and transitions — children leaving home, menopause, coming out, a relationship ending, bereavement, changing career or city, redundancy, retirement

• Low self-esteem and self-confidence

• Relationship difficulties with partners, friends or family; affairs and betrayals; separation and divorce

• Work difficulties, including disciplinary processes and redundancy

• Bereavement, grief and loss

• End-of-life, including caring for someone who is ill

• Questions of meaning and purpose

Some folk come with a more general sense of something being off and no idea where to start. We can begin there too

I work with folk from different walks of life

My practice is rooted in an interest in intersectionality and the many layers of our identity whether or not labelled. That may not be why you are seeking psychotherapy - and that’s okay too

Many of my clients are from LGBTQ+ communities. I am registered with Pink Therapy and I have specific training in gender, sexuality and relationship (GSRD) therapy including relationship diversity (e.g. consensual non-monogamy) and kink

I work with a deep sense of compassion for those navigating life with Autism, ADHD, or other forms of neurodivergence

I have an ecologically-minded practice which means that I consider place, planet and the non-human in my work

I offer a reduced fee for Transactional Analysis trainees (£53 per session) and I run a number of therapy groups.

I offer a limited amount of reduced-rate spaces where affordability is a barrier to accessing therapy. Please contact me.

There are also various organisations that offer low cost therapy; for example:

• CNUK (online)

• Face to Face (Chorlton or online)

• Manchester Low Cost Clinic (Chorlton)

• Psychotherapy Institute Clinic (Bolton)

• Counselling rooms (Chorlton)

• Manchester Mind

Hub of Hope is a directory of mental health support which may be able to signpost you to other local providers.