About me

"Slow progress is still progress" is something I tell myself all the time. I believe we all have the potential to do great things in our lives, but sometimes 'great things' can mean little wins, like just getting up in the morning. When I was young, I suffered with depression and had days where getting out of bed was all I could manage. Life seemed to stop and I was not sure if it would ever start again. Eventually, I sought counselling to help me understand why I was feeling the way I did. I understood that circumstances at the time were not helping but this was deeper. To this day, I believe if it was not for those sessions, things could be different now. Since accessing my own counselling at 16, I knew I wanted to help others in the future. 

 

In 2018, my mum passed away. It was a quick and aggressive fight with cancer that left my life completely upside down. My relationship with my mum was not always easy and this made grieving harder. The trauma that came with her passing made it difficult for me to adjust to this new life without her. I once again sought counselling to help me understand my grief. It took two years to finally come to terms with her passing and from this came a real interest in bereavement and loss counselling support. As part of my degree, I wrote my dissertation on the use of therapeutic interventions with bereaved clients and plan to do more training in the future to further help bereaved people.