Why I Do What I Do
Helping people create meaningful relationships is at the heart of everything I’ve done throughout my adult life. This work matters to me, because I believe love should feel safe, honest and extraordinary.
Why I Do What I Do
Helping people create meaningful relationships is at the heart of everything I’ve done throughout my adult life. This work matters to me, because I believe love should feel safe, honest and extraordinary.
I BELIEVE IN:
Empowering people with information, living wholeheartedly, loving fiercely and chasing joy.
I'm NOT ABOUT:
Feeling passive in life, being the victim, blaming others, living life asleep, playing small.
YOU CAN FIND ME:
Creating content, doing sessions with my amazing clients, dancing in the kitchen, snoozing on the sofa.
daily rituals
Lemon tea every morning, two hours of writing, taking my mini sausage dog for long walks, eating really great food, doing gratitude lists.
My early career was rooted in addiction group therapy. I spent 3 1/2 years working as a counsellor in a residential rehab facility, running therapeutic groups and supporting clients through intensive recovery programmes. I went on to cofound a treatment centre, where I served as clinical director for another three years overseeing the care team, managing the clinical programming, and working with patients. Since 2009 I have been in private practice, specialising in relationship dynamics, communication, codependency, and emotional resilience.
Alongside my therapeutic practice, I am a published author with Penguin Random House, a keynote speaker, and a coaching and workshop facilitator. My work draws on psychology, attachment science, behavioural change, and the many practical lessons I’ve learned in my own 19-year-long relationship.
I am accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS) and have worked extensively across both private and clinical settings since 2003.
My Professional Background
My early career was rooted in addiction group therapy. I spent 3 1/2 years working as a counsellor in a residential rehab facility, running therapeutic groups and supporting clients through intensive recovery programmes. I went on to cofound a treatment centre, where I served as clinical director for another three years overseeing the care team, managing the clinical programming, and working with patients. Since 2009 I have been in private practice, specialising in relationship dynamics, communication, codependency, and emotional resilience.
Alongside my therapeutic practice, I am a published author with Penguin Random House, a keynote speaker, and a coaching and workshop facilitator. My work draws on psychology, attachment science, behavioural change, and the many practical lessons I’ve learned in my own 19-year-long relationship.
I am accredited by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (MNCPS) and have worked extensively across both private and clinical settings since 2003.
My Professional Background
I BELIEVE IN:
Empowering people with information, living wholeheartedly, loving fiercely and chasing joy.
I'm NOT ABOUT:
Feeling passive in life, being the victim, blaming others, living life asleep, playing small.
YOU CAN FIND ME:
Creating content, doing sessions with my amazing clients, dancing in the kitchen, snoozing on the sofa.
daily rituals
Lemon tea every morning, two hours of writing, taking my mini sausage dog for long walks, eating really great food, doing gratitude lists.
This means taking time to understand what’s really happening in your relationship, choosing how to respond with greater awareness, compassion, and, when needed, clear boundaries and firmness.
In our work together, we focus on what’s actually happening day to day: how you communicate, how you handle conflict, and how you respond to each other under stress. I help you understand your reactions, speak more openly, and set loving limits, so you can build a relationship that feels calm, steady, and respectful.
My Therapeutic Philosophy
This means taking time to understand what’s really happening in your relationship, choosing how to respond with greater awareness, compassion, and, when needed, clear boundaries and firmness.
In our work together, we focus on what’s actually happening day to day: how you communicate, how you handle conflict, and how you respond to each other under stress. I help you understand your reactions, speak more openly, and set loving limits, so you can build a relationship that feels calm, steady, and respectful.
My Therapeutic Philosophy
When I Focus on Individuals
It allows us to examine what is yours to understand and change, regardless of what your partner does.
You cannot control other people, but you can take responsibility for yourself.
Many wonder whether meaningful relational change is still possible. From over 20 years of working in this field, I know it is.
But change requires understanding yourself deeply enough to make different choices consistently.
Midlife Relationships and Change
It allows us to examine what is yours to understand and change, regardless of what your partner does.
You cannot control other people, but you can take responsibility for yourself.
When I Focus on Individuals
But change requires understanding yourself deeply enough to make different choices consistently.
Midlife Relationships and Change
- How to love without history
- The dynamics that repeat
- Emotional triggers that activate you
- The attachment patterns shaping your responses
- Acts of love that feel meaningful to you
- The behaviours that reinforce the cycle and need to change
My Approach to Working With You
I believe that most people are far more self-aware than they give themselves credit for. What they often lack is time and space in which to examine what they already sense.
If you are here, you likely already know something is repeating. My role is to help you understand it clearly and change it deliberately.
A Personal Note
Charisse