I see therapy as a place where stories can be heard - the stories of who you’ve been, who you are becoming, and who you might yet be. As a Transactional Analysis psychotherapist based in Manchester and online, I offer a space for truth-telling and curiosity, for finding meaning in the patterns and pauses of your life. When we sit together, we begin with what is present: the questions you carry, the feelings that ask for attention, the still-unspoken parts of you waiting to be understood. My role is to walk beside you as we uncover the threads that connect your experiences, the places that feel tangled and the moments where new growth might begin.

My work is grounded in Transactional Analysis (TA), which is a compassionate and practical framework that helps us make sense of our inner world. TA sees each of us as made up of three core ego states: the Parent, the Adult and the Child. Each of these states holds a particular way of being, thinking and feeling that developed from our earliest relationships and experiences.

The Parent holds the voices, values and influences we absorbed from the people who cared for us. It can be a nurturing, guiding presence that offers safety and structure, but it can also carry echoes of criticism, control, or expectation. The Child carries our spontaneous, emotional, and creative self - the playful energy that feels joy and wonder - alongside the vulnerable and fearful parts that learned how to adapt or stay safe. And the Adult is the steady, present part of us that can pause, reflect, and make choices based on the here and now, rather than old habits or assumptions.

In Transactional Analysis therapy, we explore how these parts live within you and relate to one another, how they speak, protect or sometimes clash. As you come to recognise these internal voices, you gain the freedom to respond with awareness, rather than react from old patterns. Gently, this understanding brings more balance, compassion, and choice into everyday life.

Beneath these inner interactions lies the deeper story that TA calls the life script. This is the unconscious narrative we began to write as children, shaped by what we understood of love, safety and belonging. Those early decisions were powerful acts of adaptation, ways of surviving and connecting in the worlds we grew up in. Yet as adults, those same stories can sometimes confine us. In therapy, we trace them with tenderness - not to dismantle the past, but to understand how it moves through us, and to invite new possibilities for the future.

Because our stories live not only in words but also in images, movement and felt experience, I often weave creative methods into our work. Storytelling, art, journaling, imagery and metaphors can open up for deeper pathways of understanding and reach places that language alone might not. You don’t need any artistic experience to do this work. Creativity here is simply a way of listening to yourself differently, allowing what’s inside to take form and meaning.

Whether you’re seeking psychotherapy in Manchester or online to explore anxiety, self‑esteem, relationship patterns, or a general sense of being stuck, I aim to offer a space that feels calm, curious and inviting - a space where all parts of you are welcome. Together, we listen for what needs to be said, trusted or released. Over time, therapy becomes an act of gentle reclamation: a way of coming home to yourself with greater awareness, clarity and choice - and perhaps a renewed sense of authorship over the story you’re here to live.