I have worked with gender and sexually diverse clients for 32 years, individually and in relationships, in projects and in private practice. I feel passionately about the right of gsd clients to receive non-pathologising and creative relationship therapy.  Today I work in the NHS, in the voluntary sector and in private practice as a therapist, supervisor and trainer.

I have been a lesbian parent for 30 years.  I work with many lesbians and gay men contemplating new ways to parent.

I joined Pink Therapy as a Clinical Associate in 2004 and have been course tutor for two cohorts of students on the Diploma in Gender and Sexual Diversity Therapy . Together with a colleague I also devised and ran the first ever diploma in Relationship Therapy.

I work with people from a divesre range of cultural backgrounds, including individuals from queer, poly and kink communities, sex workers, and people who identify across the gender spectrum.  I am interested in the impact and meaning of race, gender, sexuality and culture as well as individual family history on our senes of identity.  In my own life I have always straddled a number of different communities and so the concept of intersectionality and respect for intersectign identities is something I feel passionately about.

I am conscious of the power invested in the role of counsellor/therapist and am aware of how much damage and distress has been caused in peoples' lives through misuses or abuses of power. Therefore I am attentive to how I hold my power, and respect for the rights and authority of the clinet is paramount in my work.

I am sensitive to the meaning of difference, particularly to people from minority groups, and acknowledge the social, economic and political factors that contribute to individual distress.