Creative Wellbeing Coach

I specialise in strategies for processing emotions and putting feelings into words.

I am a qualified psychotherapist, occupational therapist, and journal therapist, but I don’t only focus on talking therapies. I use writing therapies, such as the Pennebaker Expressive Writing method in my work.

I believe that writing our thoughts and feelings down can be very powerful. It is my personal way of processing the week and uncovering my own blind spots and patterns that keep me stuck.

The trick is to know what to do once you have written down those thoughts and feelings. This is where I can help. I have spent many years refining my process on this so that I can offer specific structured prompts for you.

I have worked with clients both individually and on a group basis since 1999. I am also a non-fiction author and have written a book on processing emotions.

I have researched introversion, extraversion, and sensory processing and mental health. I am approved by Elaine Aron as an ‘HSP-Approved Therapist’. This means I have taken a further course of study and an exam to work with highly sensitive people. This label refers to the 20% of the general population who are deep thinkers, process deeply and also can be more sensitive to sensory stimuli. I am also qualified in songwriting and music production and have researched music for wellbeing as part of my Masters research. Personally I have studied different forms of writing including poetry and songwriting. Songwriting is one of my hobbies.

I write a newsletter every Sunday where I discuss writing for wellbeing and ways to process emotions. This link will take you to my newsletter hub. I’d love to have you on my list if you are interested in these areas too!