Meet our Team

I am a multi-award winning professional and social  entrepreneur with a passion & vision for providing mental health, weight management & wellbeing interventions that work.

I am an experienced eating disorder recovery coach with a background in mental health and counselling of over 30 years. I have an Advanced Diploma (Masters Practitioner Status) in Eating Disorders and Obesity, trained and certificated in person centred counselling, CBT, CBT(e), SSCM and Transactional Analysis. 

Wellbeing and nutritional wellness are close to my heart, offering a holistic coaching approach. I offer a bio-psycho-social assessment and then alongside the other members of the team, offer a tailored treatment therapeutic coaching approach for each individual. I am an expert by experience as well as my professional knowledge, experience and have recovered from (many years ago) an eating disorder and depression. I am experienced and knowledgeable in working with neurodiversity.  

I am an experienced eating disorder therapist with a counselling background, an Advanced Diploma in Eating Disorders and MSc Integrative Psychotherapy. ​This means I adopt a compassionate, but challenging stance and a coaching style that aims to empower clients. I am a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy).

I studied at University of Chester, and qualified as a dietitian in 2007. I began working in eating disorders in 2011.

Prior to this, I’d been working in the food industry, but decided to return to clinical work, and found a role as a dietitian for Wigan CAMHS eating disorder service. I hadn’t intended this to be a long term interest, but I quickly became enamoured with the work the team were doing, and developed a passion for helping those with eating disorders. Since then I have worked in many different services, both inpatient and community and also in the private sector. I have also worked as a lecturer at University of Chester, where I aimed to convey to my students my passion for helping those with eating disorders. More recently I have worked for the eating disorder charity “Beat” as a Clinical Associate Trainer (CAT!), and have delivered training sessions on eating disorders to professionalsacross the country.

I am always patient centred in my sessions, and aim to work alongside my patients to help their recovery. My time spend in eating disorder services has shown my the value of working alongside other dedicated professionals, and I am delighted to have recently joined Flourish Therapy to continue this.

I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and a practicing NLP & EMDR Practitioner. I hold Senior Practitioner status with the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and am a Member of the CNHC.