I could not recommend Anita highly enough to work with you – I have known Anita for several years and have been seeing her for counselling, for a couple of years this has incorporated; emotional issues, tackling my hoarding tendencies and more recently, Anita has helped me navigate through the uncertainties and eventual diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Anita has a very calm, professional and compassionate approach to the sessions and I’ve always found she makes you feel very comfortable and you feel safe to discuss and explore deep seated behaviours and painful feelings. 

One of her greatest skills is in empowering you develop coping strategies which help you navigate stressful situations.

Anita, is flexible in her approach and is very hands on when supporting you in hoarding tendencies such as organising and declutterring.

One of the things that made me feel safe was the absolute non-judgemental stance she took when helping me make decisions about things. 

For example, I have rather a lot footwear of different descriptions! – so going through these was painstaking –  but Anita, just gently but firmly encouraged me to make a decision about each pair. So whether -to keep, charity, sell or ‘not sure’  so to speak –  Anita encouraged me to try and come to a firm decision about what was going to happen to the pair of shoes rather than going for the ‘not sure’ option which was an easy safe choice!

To conclude, I have benefitted hugely from Anita’s counselling in terms of feeling more emotionally resilient to deal with such things as health uncertainty, relationship dynamics and the emotions around hoarding – a massive wholehearted thank you and I look forward to continue to build and tackle entrenched behaviours and emotions to improve my overall wellbeing.

Helen (January 2025)