What is CBT?

I provide online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for young people and adults aged 12+. I'm a BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, as well as a CBT lecturer and clinical supervisor.

CBT is an evidence-based psychological therapy that helps you understand the relationship between the way you think, feel and behave. I particularly work with anxiety disorders, including panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, phobias and generalised anxiety, as well as OCD and intrusive thoughts, depression, low self-esteem and perfectionism.

You don't need to know exactly what's wrong or arrive with a diagnosis, though. Part of our work together is making sense of what's happening and deciding what might help.

How does CBT work?

In CBT, we're interested not only in why a problem may have developed, but in what's keeping it going now.

We'll look together at patterns in the way you think, feel and behave and make sense of how they interact. Once we understand the cycle that's keeping you stuck, we can start experimenting with different ways of responding and see what happens.

The aim isn't to tell you to ‘think positively’ or convince you that your worries aren't real. It's to help you understand your own patterns, test things out for yourself and develop different ways of responding that make a meaningful difference in everyday life.

What can I expect in a CBT session?

CBT is collaborative, so we'll decide together what you'd like to work on and what you want to get from therapy. Sessions usually last around 50 minutes and all of my CBT sessions are online.

We'll use what happens both inside and outside our sessions to help us understand the problem and practise new ways of responding. That might mean trying something differently, noticing a particular pattern or testing out an idea between sessions - we'll agree together what makes sense for you.

Ultimately, the aim is for you to understand yourself better and develop skills and strategies that you can continue using long after therapy has finished.

What can CBT help with?

Anxiety & OCD

I work with a wide range of anxiety difficulties, including panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, generalised anxiety and phobias, as well as OCD and intrusive thoughts. CBT can help you understand the patterns that keep anxiety going and develop different ways of responding, so that anxiety has less control over what you do.

I can also work with PTSD and the impact of difficult past experiences where CBT is an appropriate treatment.

Depression

Low mood and depression can affect every part of life, from your energy and sleep to how you see yourself and the future. CBT can help you understand the cycles that keep depression going, gradually reconnect with the things that matter to you and develop different ways of responding to unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour.

Confidence & Self-esteem

Low self-esteem can show up in all sorts of ways - self-doubt, an overly critical inner voice, perfectionism, comparing yourself with other people or constantly worrying about what others think of you.

CBT can help you understand where those patterns come from, recognise what keeps them going and begin developing a more balanced and resilient sense of yourself.

Workplace Stress & Burnout

Workplace pressures can contribute to anxiety, low mood, perfectionism, self-doubt and burnout - particularly in demanding or high-stakes roles.

Alongside my private practice, I have experience working within the NHS supporting frontline healthcare professionals. This has given me a strong understanding of the pressures that can come with demanding roles, responsibility for others and working in environments where you're expected to keep functioning even when things are difficult.