This service is for people who want therapeutic support from a registered social worker, particularly where emotional distress is connected with trauma, family relationships, risk, loss, care experience, mental health, identity, or complex social circumstances.

This is a social work service with a therapeutic focus. It draws on therapeutic counselling skills alongside social work assessment, psychosocial understanding, systems thinking, and risk-aware practice.

It may be helpful where you want space for emotional reflection and change, but also need a practitioner who can hold in mind the wider context of your life, including family dynamics, safeguarding, care systems, mental health, disability, trauma, and social adversity.

This service may include:

• Trauma-informed therapeutic conversations
• Psychosocial assessment and formulation
• Reflective and relational work
• Attachment- and systems-informed support
• Risk-aware and safeguarding-conscious practice
• Support in understanding how personal distress connects with family, care, or social systems
• Navigating systems including immigration and absorption
• navigating bureaucratic or institutional pressures

This service is not:

• statutory social work
• local authority case management
• crisis intervention
• legal advice or representation
• emergency mental health care

Professional framework

This service is provided in my capacity as a Social Work England registered social worker. 

Social Work England’s professional standards apply to my practice as a registered social worker in all roles and settings. At the start of work, I will confirm in writing the scope, purpose, and limits of the service being offered.

I offer three distinct services: therapy, therapeutic social work, and independent social work consultancy. Before work begins, I confirm in writing which service you are receiving, the aims of the work, and the professional framework that applies.