Therapy
Online therapy for chronic and long-term conditions
A specialist approach for people whose health has started taking up too much room in life. The work is about getting some of that room back.
What therapy is for
What therapy can and can’t do
Therapy can’t take a chronic condition away. What it can do is change the relationship you have with it: how much room it takes in your daily life, how much it shapes your decisions, and how much of you it gets to occupy.
The work focuses on building practical skills for living alongside the condition, and on making room for the parts of life it has been crowding out: relationships, work, rest, the small things that matter.
What I work with
Four areas of focus
What holds these four areas together is that they all involve health that has started taking up too much room in life: a body that won’t behave the way it used to, a diagnosis that has reshaped what’s possible, an experience that went badly, or worry that doesn’t settle. Most of the people I see arrive with more than one of these going on at once. The pages are signposts toward the part that feels most pressing; the work adapts to whatever else is alongside it.
Chronic pain
Chronic pain reshapes how you sleep, work, and relate to the people around you. Therapy here works on reducing that disruption, using ACT to build the skills for a life that can accommodate pain without being defined by it.
Long-term conditions
Living with diabetes, ME/CFS, Long COVID, autoimmune conditions or other long-term illness means navigating something that won’t simply pass. The work focuses on grief, identity, the mental load of self-management, and how to live well with what isn’t going away.
Trauma & EMDR
Medical trauma, accident trauma, and the cumulative toll of healthcare experiences that haven’t gone the way they should. EMDR is the specific approach I bring here, alongside CBT and ACT depending on what’s needed.
Health anxiety
When tests come back normal but the worry doesn’t, and every new sensation feels significant. Therapy here takes the underlying concerns seriously while reducing the load anxiety adds on top of whatever’s already real.
My approach
How I work
The right blend depends on what you’re carrying.
- ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) sits at the centre of how I practise. It’s the work of building psychological flexibility: the skills to live well alongside symptoms that aren’t going to simply disappear, without fighting them or pretending they aren’t there.
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is what I bring to trauma: medical trauma, accident trauma, and the toll of healthcare experiences that haven’t gone the way they should have.
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) shapes how I think about evidence-based practice. My BABCP accreditation grounds the work in proven traditions, even as I draw on what’s most helpful from the wider landscape.
I don’t pick one approach and stick to it rigidly. The work fits you, not the other way around.
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Mental health since 2010
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UK-based
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Sessions via Google Meet
Take the next step
Ready to find out if therapy could help?
Book a free 15-minute consultation. Just a conversation, no commitment. We’ll talk through what’s been going on and whether I’m the right person to support that.