As a queer therapist, I’m able to bring my own experiences of navigating identity, community and some of the shared LGBTQ+ experiences of growing up and experiencing life. That doesn’t mean my experience maps directly onto yours, but it means there are things I understand from the inside, and a quality of presence in the room that reflects that.

My practice is informed by minority stress theory, the understanding that many of the emotional and mental health challenges LGBTQ+ people face are not internal to the individual but are responses to external hostility, discrimination and marginalisation. I’m not looking for the problem in you. I’m interested in the context you’ve been navigating, and what it has cost you.

My work is rooted in anti-oppressive practice, which means actively attending to how power, identity and systemic inequality shape the experiences people bring to therapy. For LGBTQ+ clients, that includes understanding how heteronormativity and cisnormativity operate in the world, in relationships, and sometimes in therapy itself.

Whatever you’ve come to talk about, you will be met as your whole self. Your queerness, your gender, your relationship structure, your community: all of it is welcome, whether we talk about it directly or not.

My approach is person-centred and pluralistic, shaped by what’s most useful for you specifically. Some people want to focus on identity and community. Others want to work on something that has nothing to do with being LGBTQ+, and simply want a space where that’s not an issue. Both are entirely valid, and the work follows your lead.