Grounded & Honest Teaching for the Modern World
I work with counselling and psychotherapy training providers to deliver teaching that is both grounded in theory, alive in experience, and honest in its complexity.
My focus and motivation is on supporting students at the beginning of their developmental journeys by creating spaces where learning is not only understood intellectually, but also felt, reflected on, and meaningfully integrated into practice.
I am interested in how we support developing therapists to build agency in their voice, deepen their emotional discernment, strengthen their critical thinking, and engage more honestly with the complexities of relational work. I am particularly curious about the motivations and biases which drive individuals to seek the counselling and psychotherapy professions.
Areas of Teaching and Approach
My teaching is grounded in the belief that developing as a therapist is not only about acquiring knowledge or technique, but also about engaging with one’s and others’ humanity in its various wonderful and messy facets, so as to preserve curiosity, imagination, compassion, and patience.
I place great importance on clarity, structure, practical application, wisdom, and good old human unpredictability. I aim to be reflective and active, supportive but not colluding, grounded in theory, lived experience, and critical thinking.
My teaching draws on my clinical practice, training, and ongoing areas of interest (with topical examples):
Psychosexual & Relationships Therapy: Working with Sexual Shame in Therapy; Introduction to Psychosexual & Relationship Practice; Talking About Sex in Therapy; Navigating Erotic Transference.
LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice: Supporting LGBTQ+ Clients Beyond Affirmation; Working Beyond Binaries; Rewriting Relational Rules; Legacy & Modernity in LGBTQ+ Public Life.
Creative & Experiential Approaches: Embodied & Experiential Approaches in Therapeutic Work; Introduction to Dramatherapy; Using Creativity in Clinical Practice; Storytelling & Narrative Therapy.
Relational & Emotional Depth in Clinical Practice: Developing Therapeutic Presence in Early Practice; Understanding the Wounded Healer Archetype; Being with Intolerance in the Therapy Space.
I am open to collaborating with training providers in ways that feel aligned, responsive, and meaningful for both students and staff.
If you’re looking for a facilitator who can bring depth, clarity, and a relational approach to teaching—particularly in areas that require nuance, sensitivity, and honesty—I’d love to connect.
Working Together
I collaborate with:
Counselling and psychotherapy training providers
Diploma and degree programmes
Tutors and course leaders seeking specialist or complementary teaching
Students and trainees at early stages of clinical development
My work can take different forms, depending on the needs of the course or cohort:
Guest lectures
Workshop delivery
Module or short-course teaching
Experiential group facilitation
Curriculum input and collaboration
Each piece of work is shaped in response to the level of training, the learning objectives, and the particular dynamics of the group.
“When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.”