I have a particular interest in the psychological and emotional dimensions of endometriosis, PMDD, pelvic and persistent pain, gut and bladder concerns and other chronic women's health experiences.

Living with persistent symptoms can affect relationships, sexuality, work, sleep, identity, confidence and the relationship you have with your own body.

My role is not to diagnose or medically treat these conditions.

Instead, Clinical Hypnotherapy can form one part of a broader approach to supporting the emotional and psychological experience surrounding them, alongside appropriate healthcare.

Sometimes an experience ends long before the patterns surrounding it do.

Fear. Hypervigilance. Shame. People-pleasing. Difficulty trusting. Emotional overwhelm. Avoidance.

The feeling that part of you is constantly waiting for something to go wrong.

My work is gentle and individually paced, with a focus on the patterns and emotional responses surrounding your experience rather than assuming you need to repeatedly relive every detail of what happened.

I am fascinated by the patterns that repeat inside relationships.

Why we can know that someone is wrong for us and still desperately want them.

Why being chosen can begin to feel synonymous with being worthy.

Why some women repeatedly abandon themselves in order to prevent somebody else from leaving.

Why peaceful relationships can sometimes feel less compelling than emotionally unpredictable ones.

These are rarely just intellectual problems.

They are deeply learned ways of relating to connection, safety and ourselves.

Women's bodies become public conversation remarkably early.

Too big. Too small. Too sexual. Not sexual enough. Pretty enough. Young enough. Thin enough. Good enough.

I am deeply interested in what happens when a woman's appearance becomes intertwined with her sense of worth and how we begin separating the two.

Because body-image work, to me, is not about forcing yourself to believe you are beautiful every day.

It is about building a life in which your appearance no longer determines whether you believe you deserve to participate in it.

Fertility and sexuality can touch some of the most vulnerable parts of a woman's identity.

Trying to conceive, undergoing fertility treatment, pregnancy loss, painful sex, shame, body disconnection or difficulty feeling safe within intimacy can carry an enormous emotional burden.

My work in this area focuses on supporting the emotional experience surrounding fertility and intimacy.

It complements rather than replaces appropriate medical, fertility or pelvic-health care.

Some women understand logically that they are safe while simultaneously feeling as though every part of them is preparing for danger.

That disconnect interests me.

Rather than simply asking you to think differently, I am interested in understanding the automatic expectations, associations and emotional responses underneath the anxiety - and exploring what it might be like to experience something different.