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Progress, not perfection.
A small step forwards is a small step further.

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I have lived experience of the challenges and client groups I work with. I respect that together, I can learn to speak your language. Whether you are a child, a struggling couple, professional or someone who currently does not speak at all - you are an individual and I will accept you as you are and find a way of working with you that feels comfortable, easy, maybe even fun.

 

I started training to be a therapist, initially working with adults, then continuing professional development focused on supporting children and young people through the unique challenges they face.

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As my practice evolved, so did my understanding of the importance of the relationships that surround them. This naturally led me to expand my work with parents, families, and most recently couples, recognising that meaningful change often happens within the wider relational system. I now specialise in couples, relationships and intimacy, as well individual adults, children and young people.

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"Don't ask a client why they are the way they are. Ask them what they would change"

 (Erik Erikson)

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story within you"
    - Maya Angelou

​I am a qualified walk and talk therapist; I appreciate being indoors may not work well for all my clients and being outdoors in nature is equally as therapeutic.

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I am fully insured, have an enhanced DBS and attend supervision for both my private and charity practice. I also work with SEND children, previously in a mainstream secondary school and now juniors and infants.

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I draw on a range of therapeutic models to meet the individual needs of each person or couple I work with. I hold qualifications in Humanistic, Gestalt, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), but am always trying new things. Watch this space!

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I am a registered member of the BACP, MCIPD and an accredited member of the NCPS. I also lecture for CPCAB and have participated in ADHD focus groups on addiction.

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Is it possible?

"My child laughs again. She joins us to eat dinner. I can see the person she was before this started and I didn't think she would be happy again until school was over" (Andover, 2023)

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"I felt genuinely supported through my time with Esther. She created a safe, steady space where I felt supported and understood. Her guidance helped me make sense of things in  different way" (Totton, 2026)

"There is no typical 'nervousness' when you meet Esther for the first time. The energy and vibe she has is like you already know her"

(Walk & Talk, 2024)

What is Rhino?

Rhino was the result of the realisation, finally, that square pegs were never meant to fit into a round holes.

 

My personality, my lived experience, the characteristics and traits that define me were the very thing that stopped me being successful in the prescribed, regulatory, and rigid roles I had tried so hard to be good at. It took years of work for me to understand that I was not a failure, I had just been trying to succeed at something I wasn't suited too. Rhino gave me the space to try, fail, watch, listen and learn.

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It is built around my clients, their feedback, reflective practice and my own, ongoing development.

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I have the freedom to tailor what I do to suit our needs, the risks I take are mine, equally so is the reward. I knew I wanted to be diverse in what I offered, so Rhino allows me to coach, speak motivationally, and work with projects as they come up. I knew that I was different.

 

I knew my service would be different. I know my approach to therapy is different.

 

So rather than force it to fit somewhere else, I gave it name and decided to share it as it is.

What got me into counselling?

I chose to help others soon after I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2010. Having tried unsuccessfully to manage a free-wheeling lifestyle and chaotic mind, I approached my 40s with a catalogue of moral failings behind me; broken relationships, bankruptcy, addiction, injuries, isolation, frustration and anger.

The hurt and damage that I had both caused and received, the impact and the effects of all that I had done were devastating and shortly after I started my studies, I admitted myself to rehab. I don't believe I could do what I do now, without having experienced such difficulty.

 

Those feelings of isolation, feeling like a misfit, lost and worthless, worse, a burden to those I loved. Pretending I was happy as a youngster, whilst I waded through the treacle of guilt, shame and confusion had become my new normal.

Then I found clubs, drugs and alcohol and everything got temporarily better before it all got so much worse. I decided if I could get better, I would be able to facilitate the change that would help others find a way out of their suffering. Better still, if I could prevent it from happening, I would do that too, in the hope that less was lost for them before they found themselves.

 I remain committed to this today, especially for those marginalised or vulnerable groups who don't yet know they have a choice.

Quals & Memberships

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  • L6 BSc CBT

  • L6 Supervision

  • L5 Diploma

  • L5 Diploma Humanistic Gestalt CIPD People Management

  • NCPS Couples, Intimacy & Relationships

  • L4 Advanced Diploma CBT

  • L3 Certificate in Counselling

  • L3 Certificate in Families and Couples Therapy

  • L3 Certificate in Play Therapy

  • L3 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Sector

  • L2 Certificate in Mental Health

  • Registered Walk & Talk Therapist

  • Registered Tutor for Counselling Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body

  • Registered Member BACP

  • Accredited Member NCPS

 Presenting Issues

  • ADHD

  • Abuse

  • Acceptance

  • Addiction

  • Affairs

  • Anger

  • Anxiety

  • Autism

  • Bereavement

  • Betrayal

  • Bullying

  • Confidence

  • Depression

  • Divorce

  • Emotional Regulation and Identification

  • Family Issues

  • Food (relationships with, ARFID)

  • Gender

  • Goals

  • Grief

  • Harassment

  • Loneliness

  • Loss

  • Marital Issues

  • Intrusive Thoughts

  • Neurodiversity

  • PTSD

  • Panic Attacks

  • Progression 

  • Reconnection

  • Redundancy

  • Relationships

  • Resilience

  • Self- Harm

  • Self-Esteem

  • Self-worth

  • Sexuality

  • Stress

  • Suicide

  • Trauma

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