As a ND arts mentor I can support you with your arts practice.

✓ Reviewing your creative career to date and where you’d like to go.

✓ Time management and organisation strategies.

✓ Going through a funding application and support filling it in. (Please note, I only support with the writing section and simpler budget sections.)

✓ Clarifying your strengths, values, skills and identifying your access barriers.

✓ Identifying opportunities for growth and strategic development around your access requirements, identifying what tools you need to reduce your barriers.

✓ Overcoming creative blocks or personnel challenges

✓ Turbo-charging your artist CV and identifying which elements to add to your Artist Statement.

✓ Support with writing your artist statement, or sections of an application form.

✓ Application feedback. I can signpost you to more qualified access support for more complicated budgets.

✓ Interview practice and how to ask for interview questions in advance to meet your access needs.

✓ Project and budget management

✓ Marketing and networking the neurodivergent way! I support with templates and writing emails.

As a Specialist Mentor, I provide assistance with any pastoral matters which are causing you anxiety or stress including:

✓ Support for motivation and morale

✓Emotional support with the focus on enabling the development of emotional awareness and wellbeing strategies

✓Help with organisation and planning, solving problems, developing and tailoring life and study skills and strategies to individual needs

✓Help you adjust to university life, including access to reasonable adjustments and examination arrangements

✓Advocacy for you

✓Liaising with tutors and various departments in the institution

✓Liaising with other services including medical, psychological and social services teams

✓Highlighting any early signs of difficulties and suggest strategies to manage this and also how you could self-monitor these strategies in the future

✓Create Action plans and objectives using tailored strategies

If you are looking for a tutor to support you with:

• study skills

• reading

• writing

• referencing

• looking for information (researching) and study support

Then you have come to the right place.

Study skills tutoring includes skills in acquiring, recalling, and retaining information in written and spoken language, and strategies to develop memory, organisation, attention and numeracy skills.

I am available to support pupils from primary school right through to university level (PhD)

I’m a qualified primary and specialist reading/writing school teacher (QTS) and a Study Skills tutor.

Psychotherapy and Art Psychotherapy is Neurodivergent (ND) led, I want to ensure my services are as accessible as possible so you can experience therapy with me over text, chat, verbally or through painting and mark making. I am an anti-ableist psychotherapist, mentor and practitioner.

I offer a relaxed space where you can attend and “be”.

You might be seeking out sessions because you are experiencing issues surrounding or with:

Anxiety (including social anxiety, health anxiety, performance anxiety, chronic and generalised anxiety and anxiety disorders)

ADHD diagnosis or seeking diagnosis

ASD and ASC and neurodivergence - including 'late' or adult diagnosis

Depression

Shame and Perfectionism

Cultural Difference and Adjustment

Gender

Sexuality, and Identity

'Women’s Issues' (including sex, self-image, health, and cultural expectations)

How pregnancy and autism interact, feelings and PTSD

Living childfree, adapting to childlessness, maternal ambivalence

PTSD and trauma

Early Childhood Issues

Grief and Loss

Recurring nightmares or dreams that you’d like to explore.