I originally trained at The Norland College, working in private families as a Norland nanny and maternity nurse.  I later completed a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapeutic child counselling at the Institute for Arts in Education and Therapy.  I have worked as school counsellor in primary and secondary level education and as a counsellor in a youth counselling charity.

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Creativity is an important part of my life, whether with fabric, yarn or, in my garden.  I am on a gardening journey as I learn from season to season and year to year, but I particularly enjoy finding the right place for a plant in the garden and watching it thrive. 

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“It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”

D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality