About Me

I’m Leah (she/her). I work in an empathetic, relational and holding way to help you discover a way forward and gain new perspectives on your life. You might be feeling stuck, anxious, low mood, or experiencing low self-worth or challenges with your relationships. Or you may be with a sense that something isn’t quite right, even if you can’t yet put it into words. We can work together to explore what’s most important to you. Together we can be curious towards your thoughts and feelings, which can lead to a better understanding of what you need most.

I identify as a woman and hold an open, fluid understanding of gender and identity in myself and others. My work as a psychotherapist is neuro-affirmative and trauma-informed. I offer an LGBTQIA+ affirming and inclusive practice, welcoming people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and relationship styles.

I come from a mixed-faith background myself, and offer a respectful, inclusive space for people of all faiths and none, including those who do not identify with a religion but experience spirituality as an important part of their lives.

As a psychotherapist, my training enables me to work with traumatic experiences sensitively and at depth, supporting lasting awareness, integration and change. In fact, gestalt is a particularly trauma-informed approach emphasising safety, choice, awareness and pacing, supporting you to develop the resources needed to process experiences in a way that feels manageable and integrated.

Qualifications

• My training in psychotherapy started 12 years ago, with an introduction to person-centred counselling (2014)
• I then qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist (2019) which is when I also completed my first year of psychotherapy training. (Please note, I no longer practise hypnotherapy.)
• I’m also a qualified mindfulness teacher with the highly respected Mindfulness Association (2022).
• I’m a fully accredited psychotherapist having completed a UKCP-accredited postgraduate diploma in relational gestalt psychotherapy (Masters level), in which I achieved a Distinction. The training took 5 years to complete and included a minimum of 450 client hours, 120 supervision hours and 160 hours of personal therapy.
• I’m also a certified poetry therapist (CPT) accredited by the International Federation of Biblio-Poetry Therapy following a five-year in-depth training programme.
• I’ve worked in private practise for over two years, and before that, I worked for Norfolk & Waveney Mind at the Low Cost Counselling Service (LCCS), where I was one of the service’s in-house therapists for almost two years.
• I also worked at Norfolk & Waveney Mind supporting on the Crisis Line and at Omnia (2018 – 2020).
• I also hold a BA Hons in Public Relations and Communications (2001) and an MA in Creative Writing (2012).

In addition to my psychotherapy training, I’ve completed a range of in-depth courses and CPD on dream work, sleep and nightmares, anxiety, sand tray therapy, chronic illness, trauma and dissociation, autism and ADHD, and stress management.

I’ve been running workshops in poetry therapy, journaling and other writing for wellbeing approaches for the past six years as well as ones teaching people how to have lucid dreams as a way to support their inner landscape and creativity. You can find out more about these online and in-person workshops* via The Moon Lab.

I am a registered and qualified member of United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) following completion of Masters-level studies in psychotherapy.

*Unfortunately, I cannot currently offer these workshops to psychotherapy clients I am actively working with, due to professional boundaries and the ethical framework I adhere to.