I am a psychological therapist with a mental health nursing background. I have worked in mental health services for more than 20 years. For the last 8 years my work has been specialised in supporting people and their families, who struggle to regulate their emotions. Not feeling in control of our emotions can often have a profound affect in a lot, if not all areas of life. I work together with the client to help them understand their emotions, and to learn to either up or down regulate their emotions, to detach from unhelpful thoughts and to enable them to be more effective personally, by being kinder to themselves, to have more positive relationships, build mastery and to be more effective in all areas of their lives. I work with people and encourage them to accept and manage their current predicament, whilst enabling them to make changes to positively shape their own destiny, motivating them to learn and use skills, and work towards short and long term goals to build a life they want to live. Working to achieve balance in the dialectic of acceptance of things as they are, whilst striving to make changes and improvements.