That’s why the first stage of my new six-session therapy programme is called Seeing.
Together we’ll slow down, pay attention, and explore what emerges when we truly notice:
📷 What draws us to an image 🧠 What memories and thoughts arise ❤️ What we experience in the body 🌱 What feels important but perhaps hasn’t yet found words
This is not a photography course.
It is therapy, with photography providing another language through which we can explore ourselves and our experiences.
As a BACP-registered therapist, I’m delighted to be offering this new six-week, one-to-one programme.
Kizuku is a new six-week, one-to-one therapy programme that combines professional counselling with the power of therapeutic photography.
As a BACP-registered therapist, published author, and practitioner with many years’ experience in therapeutic photography, I have seen how photographs can help people explore thoughts, feelings, memories, relationships, and life experiences in ways that words alone sometimes cannot.
This is not a photography course, and you don’t need any photography experience.
It is therapy.
Photography simply provides another language through which we can understand ourselves, make sense of our experiences, and discover new possibilities for change.
The programme follows a six-stage therapeutic journey:
Seeing
Exploring what is drawing your attention right now.
Remembering
Reflecting on the stories, experiences, and memories that have shaped you.
Relating
Understanding patterns in relationships, both past and present.
Feeling
Giving space to emotions that may have been hidden, avoided, or difficult to express.
Becoming
Exploring strengths, possibilities, and the person you are becoming.
Integrating
Bringing together new insights and creating a meaningful way forward.
Over six weekly sessions, we will use conversation, reflection, and photographs to deepen self-awareness and support personal growth within a safe and professionally held therapeutic relationship.
No specialist equipment is needed. A phone camera is more than enough.
If you’re looking for therapy and would like to explore a creative, thoughtful, and deeply personal approach to understanding yourself, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Message me for further information or to arrange an initial conversation.
I am delighted to announce my newest project – Kizuku
“This is not photography as therapy. It is therapy itself, with photography providing an additional language through which experience can be explored and understood.”
For many years, photography has been central to my professional work. As a therapist, published author, and longstanding practitioner in the field of therapeutic photography, I have seen the unique ways that images can help people access thoughts, feelings, memories, and experiences that can be difficult to express through words alone.
I’m pleased to announce that I am now offering a six-session therapy programme integrating photography into the counselling process.
These are one to one, online therapy sessions, grounded in a professional therapeutic relationship and informed by established counselling practice. Photography is not the goal of the work. Rather, your photographs and image-making become valuable tools for reflection, exploration, and deeper understanding.
Together, we may explore themes such as identity, relationships, loss, life transitions, self-esteem, personal history, or the challenges you are currently facing. The photographs we use can help uncover perspectives and emotions that might otherwise remain out of reach.
You do not need any photography experience, artistic ability, or specialist equipment. The focus is not on creating great images, but on what the images reveal about your experiences, strengths, and aspirations.
It has been a busy few months and I am very grateful for all the trust my new clients have given me. Being a pluralistic counsellor, and with many years of experience of working with a wide range of issues, I can draw on a number of techniques. Recently I have been using photography and it is amazing how it can help people open up, explore the past, express emotions, and re-awaken creativity.
I have researched these techniques for years and have written extensively on their use across many professional areas. Photographs are a real treasure trove of information, and it can be insightful to use existing images to facilitate sessions. Equally, creating images in (and between) sessions can offer ways to connect with feelings and emotions which may have been suppressed for many years.
Winter can be a tough time for many. As I am just setting up my new business against a backdrop of increasing expenses, and diminishing services, I am offering all my new clients a 50% reduction in fees for all appointments between November 2025, and the end of February 2026.
As I launch Developing Positives, it is very sad to learn that such a fantastic organisation who provided counselling for so many people has just closed.
Mental Health Aberdeen (MHA) has been in operation since the 1950’s and it is where I completed my placement whilst studying for my Pluralistic Counselling qualification, and where I was a volunteer counsellor. It provided free counselling for people in need all across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.
This week they announced that, because of their financial situation, they have had to close with immediate effect, leaving staff without a job, and leaving those who were receiving a service, without vital support.
Seeing
Remembering
Relating
Feeling
Becoming
Integrating
Message me for further information or to arrange an initial conversation.
