I studied for a BA Hons degree in Fashion & Marketing and went on to have a successful career. I gave it up to care for my two children, a role that I found equally challenging and rewarding. After a while, the challenges of such a major life shift led me to seek help from a therapist.

But something wasn’t right.

I often felt misunderstood; that my therapist wasn’t quite able to enter into my world, due to the vast difference in our cultural and social backgrounds. I couldn’t quite make the connection I needed, despite reaching out to a number of different practitioners.

Whilst I may not have realised it at the time, my negative experience with my own therapy was a signpost to a more positive direction in my life. I decided to train as a psychotherapist myself. It’s my goal to break down the perception that therapists may seem elite or untouchable to many of us, and to reach out to people from wider, more diverse, cultural backgrounds.