About me

Life and career

I’ve been an author, journalist and broadcaster in the UK and abroad. I’ve spent a number of years promoting sexual awareness through the arts and media.

Founder, The Queer Menopause Project

Over the last four years I have been doing research and activism about queer and trans approaches to menopause. My research is published in the peer reviewed journal: Sexual and Relationship Therapy, part of Taylor & Francis: How can therapists and other healthcare practitioners best support and validate their queer menopausal clients? I have given evidence to parliament and published a chapter in Pink Therapy’s Erotically Queer. You can find more about my work at Queermenopause.com.

Continuing Professional Development

Here is a selection of CPD events I have attended over the last few years:

2025

Kaleidoscope – Mixed & Multiracial Heritage in Therapy (Dr Yvon Guest / Online Events)
Understanding AuDHD (NEDDE training)
Pink Therapy two-day conference
Trans Liberation Now! (Feminist Gender Equality Network conference)
Somatic Experiencing – Introductory weekend
Beyond PTSD: Addressing Continuous Traumatic Stress in the Global South (Myra Saad)
Against Transantagonism (Avgi Saketopoulou)
Decolonising Therapy (Kim Loliya, Black Psychotherapy)
Decolonising Therapy (Dwight Turner)
Neurodivergence & Trauma Eight Week Study Group (Trauma Geek)
Mindfulness for Neurodivergent People (Emma Taylor, Online Events)

2024

Understanding Sex Workers’ Complex Counselling Needs (Jack Parker, author of Working Guys)
Trans Health Matters (CliniQ 10th annual conference)
Cost of Living Crisis: The Price of Not Dying – National Counsellors Day Annual Conference (Counsellors Together UK)
Challenging Transphobia: Developing a Relational Thinking & Praxis (Relational School)
Unity in Diversity – Exploring Neurodiversity (Pink Therapy annual conference)
Voices of Resilience – Online Conference: Advocating for LGBTQI+ Refugee Rights and Wellbeing (Fighting Fear)
LGBTQ+ History Month Panel: Trans+ Healthcare (Queer Britain)
Single Session Therapy (PESI)
Unlearning Body Shame: Anti-Fat Bias in the Therapy Room (The Fat Counsellors)
Body image and disordered eating (NEDDE training)

2023

Supporting the newly diagnosed autistic client (Vanguard Neurodiversity Training)
ADHD & Women: Misdiagnosed & Misunderstood (Seed Talks)
Black Men, Trauma and Mental Health (Community Trauma Conference)
Trauma & Menopause: Introduction to the Nexus of Shame, Grief & Humiliation (Online Events)
Living & Working with Neurodivergence: Mental Health & Wellbeing (Online Events)
Sexuality, Self Expression, and Belongingness in Fur Fandom (TASHRA)
How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle) (NICABM)
Autistic Masking (Autangel)
The Challenges/Possibilities of Doing Positive Sexuality Research (Center for Positive Sexuality)
Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications (PESI)
Helping clients to access adult ASD/ADHD assessments (Free2BMe)
Disability Awareness Training (Quiplash)
Sex Work Therapy Training (ESWA – European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance)
Working with Autistic Clients (Autangel)
Working with Self-Injury and Self-Harm (Brighton Therapy Partnership)
Autistic-led organisations (Autangel)
Trauma in the Womb – How prenatal experience impacts adult clients (Confer)
Autistic Therapists and Counsellors (Autangel)
Adult ADHD in the Therapy Room (Free2bMe Therapy Services)
Working with Core Beliefs of ‘Never Good Enough’ (NICABM)
Weight Stigma and Fatphobia workshop (The Fat Counsellors)
Working with Adult Autistic Clients (Vanguard Neurodiversity Training)

I have regularly attended Pink Therapy’s ‘Advanced Clinical Discussions: Kink’ since 2013. In 2017-18 I attended a six-month long cycle of group supervision sessions focused on Out Of Control Sexual Behaviour, run by Dominic Davies and Doug Braun-Harvey.

In 2014 I started The London Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Practice with a group of colleagues. This project ran until 2025. We offered counselling, psychotherapy, training, mentoring and consultancy with a GSRD focus.

Training given/Events/Facilitation

‘How do menopausal queers experience healthcare services?’ at the British Psychological Society’s POWES (Psychology of Women and Equalities Section) conference.
‘Menopause – Agent of Queerness?’ at AltSex NYC.
When the Kinks Won’t Sync – Working with Mismatched Desires in Kink Relationships – part of Pink Therapy’s Kink on Pink season.
Queer Menopause – Where Gender, Sexuality and Age Collide (talk) at the Pink Therapy Queer Desire Conference.
‘Menopause, Sex and Hormones’ (talk) at Transitional States at Birkbeck in May 2018. (In 2018 I was on the advisory board of Pharmacosexuality: The Past, Present and Future of Sex on Drugs, a new research project funded by a Wellcome Trust Seed Award in Humanities and Social Sciences.)
I have trained other therapists about gender/sexual diversity in the therapy room.
‘The Sex Escalator’ (talk) at Hackney Attic.
I have solo facilitated, and held space for other teachers, at a number of experiential workshops and festivals.

Previous employment

Honorary Psychotherapist, Bexley Psychotherapy Service, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (2012-14). Two years clinical placement at a highly respected NHS Trust.
Counsellor, The Centre for Better Health, Hackney (2012-13). A year providing counselling for established community organisation that is also a social enterprise and community hub.