Caroline | Counsellor

I just wanted to say thank you for all the energy and effort you've put into my recovery. You have treated me with understanding and respect every step of the way and your sense of humour has been a mainstay with each session.

I am grateful that we met and that you could witness my progress from the very start. Things were not always easy, I had my 'moments', but you always seemed to keep the faith and made me feel comfortable with 'home truths', very important in helping me realise my place in the world and my relationship with those surrounding me.

Caroline has been a vital part of my emotional and psychological growth. The experience, depth of knowledge and compassion that Caroline has is obvious from the first session. I know I can turn up to my sessions just as I am and that I have a safe and honest place in which to explore and grow.

Through Caroline’s kind and firm guidance my thoughts and behaviours have been challenged and Caroline has given me a daily framework to make substantial changes in my life, for the better. I have embarked on my recovery journey armed with practical tools not just theories. Caroline brings a clarity and focus to our sessions that has challenged and changed my thinking and behaviours in so many ways. I would not have the recovery or the life I have was it was not for her.

Luke

I have been working with Caroline for the past year in order to gain clarity in my relationships, and on certain patterns I have noticed repeating over the years (both with family and partners). Having seen 3 different counsellors prior to Caroline, I immediately welcomed her straightforward approach and the supporting theory she references during our sessions. She challenges me to better understand the root cause of my emotions, and already over this relatively short period I am finding myself better equipped with the tools to not only recognise these behaviours, but to address them in a more measured, adult way. Everyone needs a Caroline! I couldn’t recommend her highly enough.

Annie

It’s no exaggeration to say that I wouldn’t be approaching six months in recovery from drug addiction if it wasn’t for Caroline’s skill, professionalism and unwavering support. I'd likely be very ill or dead. I have worked with Caroline over the past 12months post-treatment. I think I probably wasn’t an easy client because my self-awareness and ability to be honest with myself, let alone someone else, was non-existent when I met her. I did not want to look at myself or my behaviours and I certainly didn’t want them to be pointed out to me. I had been in three treatment centres before and knew the language of recovery but couldn’t fool Caroline for a moment. She was willing to challenge me on the things I said, how I behaved and what I believed about myself and others. I did not always like this process but she did it with such compassion and kindness, that I felt safe with her which meant I was able to be honest with another human being probably for the first time in my life.

She helped me accept myself for who I am, to feel ok with making mistakes, to take accountability for things I had blamed others for my whole life, to move on from old trauma and to believe that real change was possible. Her work with me is one of the main reasons that I have been able to stay in recovery and to have a life, with all its ups and downs.

I will be forever grateful to Caroline for giving me the tools to stay clean but more than that – the gifts of self-awareness, compassion for myself and others and the belief that I am enough, just as I am.

Anon