Therapy to help you understand what’s happening, feel better and move forward.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps you respond differently to difficult thoughts, feelings and physical sensations.

Rather than spending all your energy trying to get rid of uncomfortable experiences, you learn how to get less caught up in them and keep doing the things that are important to you.

Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, or CBH, combines cognitive and behavioural techniques with hypnotherapy. It uses focused attention, imagery, suggestion and mental rehearsal to help you practise new ways of thinking, feeling and responding.

You remain aware and in control throughout. CBH can also include self-hypnosis skills that you can use for yourself outside sessions.

The most helpful approach depends on how anxiety affects you and what may be keeping it going. This could include worry, overthinking, avoidance, panic, physical symptoms, social anxiety or fear of being judged.

We’ll make sense of how anxiety is working for you, then use approaches such as ACT, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and hypnotherapy to help you respond differently and begin doing more of what anxiety has been getting in the way of.

Therapy cannot promise to cure pain, but it can help you understand why pain can persist, respond differently to symptoms and reduce some of the fear, tension and struggle that can build around them.

For chronic primary pain, NICE recommends considering ACT or CBT for pain. My approach may also include mindfulness, imagery, relaxation and self-hypnosis, helping you feel more confident managing symptoms and give pain less say over how you live.

Chronic pain is a specialist area of my work, with experience in fibromyalgia research, long-term health conditions and an NHS pain-management setting.

Stress isn’t always solved by learning to relax, particularly when the demands on you are real. Therapy helps you understand your stress response, what may be keeping it going and where change could make the greatest difference.

This might include working with overthinking, pressure, perfectionism, boundaries, habits and the way stress affects your body. The aim is to help you feel calmer, think more clearly and handle pressure without constantly running on empty.

Sleep difficulties can become caught up with worry, frustration, unhelpful routines and the increasing pressure to try harder to sleep.

We’ll look at what may be keeping the struggle going, including sleep effort, clock-watching, stress and how you respond when sleep doesn’t come. My approach can include ACT, mindfulness, hypnotherapy and relevant elements of CBT for insomnia.

The aim isn’t to force sleep, but to create better conditions for rest and sleep to happen more naturally.

The six-session therapy package costs £600 and includes a 90-minute in-depth assessment followed by five 60-minute sessions. You can pay in full or in two payments of £300.

Six sessions give us time to understand what is happening, begin working on it and review what is changing. Some people may benefit from further sessions, depending on what they need. We’ll talk about how many sessions you may need before we begin and review this together as we go.

Yes. I offer online therapy across the UK via Zoom. You can join from somewhere private and comfortable, without travel time or needing to live locally.

You’ll also have access to your personalised resources in the Your Mind Works app and a secure client portal for appointments and documents.

Online therapy can be effective for many common difficulties. The quality of the work, the connection with your therapist and how suitable the approach is for you matter more than whether you meet in the same room.

Some people prefer online sessions because they feel comfortable at home and are easier to fit around work or family life. If you’re unsure, we can discuss whether online or in-person therapy would suit you during your consultation.

Therapy is confidential, and what you share is treated with care and respect.

There are limited exceptions, such as when there is a serious concern about your safety or someone else’s, or when information must be disclosed by law. I’ll explain confidentiality before we begin and, wherever possible, discuss any concerns with you first.

In-person sessions are available in North Warwickshire, within easy reach of Tamworth, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton upon Trent.

If travelling isn’t convenient, online sessions are available across the UK. I’ll provide the full location details when we arrange your appointment.