Hi, I’m Tom.

I’m a DBS checked, CPCAB qualified, person-centred psychotherapist working with adults and young people in line with the BACP ethical framework.

I’m of the belief that therapy is a place where we can truly be ourselves. Where we don’t have hold it together, where we don’t have to be what society expects us to be, where we don’t have to be clever, brave, fixed, funny or fine.

It’s a space for honesty, uncertainty, grief, confusion, humour, contradiction, even some wildness at times - and for discovering what it means to be more fully yourself.

I believe that connection is the most powerful driver in therapy, and I believe in the great Professor Irvin Yalom’s opinion that the therapeutic relationship is itself, above all, the healer. That when we’re met fully, truly understood, and truly cared for, that’s when something within us begins to soften. And that’s when change begins.

As Dr. Lou Cozolino puts it, “It’s not survival of the fittest, it’s survival of the nurtured.”

Therapy therefore has to be a nurturing space, where the moment you walk through the door (virtual or otherwise), you feel heard, held, prized and cared for. Where you work alongside another, in partnership, towards understanding yourself more fully, at more depth.

I’m not here to diagnose or label. I’m here to meet you - as you are, where you are. And to help you meet yourself with more kindness, more honesty, and little bit more hope and love.