About Fiona

I’m very happy to welcome you to my therapy practice, one started in a spirit of love and joy. Having spent my years on our amazing planet discovering and uncovering who I am, one of the purposes of my life as a human being and a therapist is to help others do the same: becoming – or coming back to – who they already are. In the therapy room, I bear witness to the vulnerability of my clients as they put their trust in both our relationship and the therapeutic process in order to work through pain, grief, loss, anger, anxiety, trauma and re-find themselves. I feel privileged to hold that space, listening deeply, understanding both the words and the meaning behind them, reflecting back to the client what they have been holding out of awareness – bringing themselves into being.

Then came one final piece of learning – I needed to listen to my body. Always a keen fan of yoga, it took a frightening panic attack to lead me to start really tuning into my body, to realise how the fear and anger that I’d repressed for so long were causing physical, mental and emotional stress that was rising in my body to demand attention. In order to listen to my body’s wisdom, I deepened my yoga practice, started using mindfulness, breathwork, acceptance and self-compassion to learn who I was from the inside and how to be myself.

So it was that my own process of self-becoming lead me to train as a therapist myself. I completed my training at CPPD  in 2019 and qualified as a humanistic integrative psychotherapist. I followed this with a year’s Diploma in Trauma Therapy at the Naos Institute; then became an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I now focus my ongoing professional development towards enhancing my skills as a trauma-informed therapist, including somatic and body psychotherapeutic approaches.