About Sass

I am an accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist working with individuals across the UK. Being accredited with the BACP is important to me. In a profession where counselling and psychotherapy are not protected titles, it offers reassurance that I am committed to ethical practice, ongoing learning, and continuing professional development.

My training is grounded in person-centred theory, but my curiosity about people, relationships, and what it means to be human began long before I became a therapist. I have always been interested in how we make sense of our experiences, what shapes us, and what helps us move forwards. Although, if I am honest, I have also spent a fair amount of time wondering what we actually mean when we talk about "growth".

Over the years, both through my therapy practice and my wider work, I have found myself drawn to the experiences of people who spend much of their lives caring for or supporting others, whether within families, relationships, communities, or professional roles. Often, they are the people others rely on, the ones holding things together, sometimes without fully recognising the impact that has on them.

At the heart of my work is a person-centred understanding that the conditions we offer to others are not separate from how we relate to ourselves. Alongside a Professional Trauma & Fatigue lens, I am interested in how we stay in relationship with ourselves within the realities of caring, responsibility, and human connection.

I also work with clients drawing on many years of experience within the domestic abuse sector, offering space to consider relationships that may feel uncomfortable, controlling, or unsafe.

Alongside my private practice, I am Director of SelfCare Psychology, where I contribute to training, writing, and the development of frameworks supporting practitioner wellbeing. This includes the development of Professional Trauma & Fatigue, a term introduced through my MSc research to help understand the impact of working within the helping professions.

Whether through therapy, training, writing, or reflective spaces, my work is ultimately about creating opportunities for people to better understand themselves, their experiences, and what supports them to move forwards.

Outside of work, family, tea, plants and gardens are never too far away. Life is much quieter than it once was, and I have discovered that I quite like it that way. These days I value space, simplicity, and time to think, which probably says something about both who I am and how I work.