Information

I have completed a COSCA-accredited training at Masters Level in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and am currently working towards COSCA professional registration.

Services

Waking Circles offers CBT-informed and Integrative Wellbeing Support. CBT therapy is available to UK-based clients only. Integrative Programmes, including Facing Shadows, are available to UK and international clients as non-clinical wellbeing support.

These services are not a substitute for medical or psychiatric care.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

My CBT work is grounded in COSCA-accredited training and informed by best practice, ethical standards, and the core therapeutic conditions of empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard.

In our work together, I support you in understanding the relationship between your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and lived experiences. Sessions are collaborative and structured, guided by individualised treatment plans that are shaped around your needs, goals, and pace. We work gently and intentionally to identify unhelpful patterns, develop insight, and build practical tools that support lasting change.

I practise within the scope of my training, engage in regular supervision, and work in alignment with COSCA ethical guidelines while completing the requirements for professional registration.

Working with teens

I work with young people aged 12 and above, offering developmentally appropriate CBT-informed support that centres connection, safety, and engagement.

My approach with teens integrates CBT tools alongside creative and expressive methods inspired by art-based practices. I place importance on meeting young people where they are — incorporating their interests, language, and ways of expressing themselves — while supporting emotional awareness, confidence, and resilience.

Alongside individual work, I currently deliver 1:1 counselling as well as wellbeing-focused sessions through The Online School and facilitate group work within a diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing programme, where young people explore themes such as identity, culture, belonging, and mental health through discussion and interactive activities.

Working with adults

My CBT work is grounded in COSCA-accredited training and informed by best practice, ethical guidelines, and the core therapeutic conditions of empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard. The importance and nourishing of the therapeutic relationship sits at the heart of this work.

CBT offers a structured yet compassionate approach to understanding how our thoughts, emotions, bodily responses, and behaviours interact. Together, we explore these patterns, not to judge or eliminate them, but to understand their purpose and learn how to respond differently.

How we work together

Over a minimum three-month commitment, we move gradually through the different layers of experience.

  • Exploring your thoughts and inner narratives, gathering information to learn about common unhelpful thinking styles and how to challenge them

  • Understanding how the body responds to perceived threat and stress, how this links to anxiety, low mood, and other mental health experiences

  • Working with behaviours through behavioural experiments and graded exposure, supporting you to face difficulties at a manageable pace

  • Gradually uncovering and working with core beliefs, supporting shifts in how you see yourself, others, and your experiences

Focused treatment areas

Where appropriate, I offer structured treatment plans tailored to specific concerns, such as: social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression and low mood, generalised anxiety and fear-based patterns, self-criticism and low self-worth

Treatment plans are adapted to your individual needs and reviewed collaboratively as the work unfolds.

Throughout our work together, my role is to offer a safe, contained, and reflective space — holding presence alongside practical tools — so change is supported not only at a cognitive level, but through lived experience.

Facing Shadows Programme

Integrative Wellbeing Practitioner

As an Integrative Wellbeing Practitioner, my work extends beyond a single therapeutic model. I draw not only from CBT, but also from traditional shadow work, nature-based spirituality, and ancestral and earth-centred wisdom.

This integrative approach allows space for the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of wellbeing to be acknowledged and explored together. Sessions have a different structure than traditional therapy and are guided by presence, reflection upon what is emerging for you.

This work is suitable for those seeking deeper self-understanding, reconnection, and meaning-making, rather than clinical mental health treatment.

Facing Shadows Programme

Facing Shadows is a four-month integrative programme designed to support deep self-exploration and transformation through the four aspects of self: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual.

Within this container, we explore:

  • Thought patterns, beliefs, and inner narratives — learning how to observe, gather information, and challenge them

  • Values, boundaries, and non-negotiables, and how these shape our behaviour

  • Behavioural patterns and their origins, including family dynamics and learned responses

  • Relational themes, including your relationship with yourself, others, and the wider world

  • Inner child work through reflection, creativity, exploring what healing and play may look like for you

  • Emotional awareness, responsibility, and self-compassion

  • Spiritual connection through relationship with the Earth, ancestry, and a sense of belonging within the wider web of life

Facing Shadows is not traditional therapy. It is a guided, reflective, and integrative process that invites honesty, courage, and curiosity, supporting you in coming into deeper relationship with yourself.

Wellbeing Workshops

Alongside one-to-one work, I design and deliver wellbeing workshops for groups, drawing on my experience as a Wellbeing Manager at SnowCamp.

These workshops are experiential and interactive, incorporating reflective exercises, creative activities, discussion and play. They are designed to foster connection within groups, encourage laughter and openness, and create space for meaningful conversations around wellbeing.

Workshops are currently delivered primarily for teens, with scope to adapt and offer sessions for adults, organisations, and community groups.

Pricing

Pricing details are shared during the initial free consultation, where we can discuss suitability, pacing, and access. I aim to make my work as accessible as possible and welcome conversations about financial circumstances.