Nature-Based Counselling for adults with ADHD...
Nature-Based | In-Person | Online

Welcome!If you were diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, you know the feeling of working twice as hard just to stay in the same place. It's often a life lived in the in-between - knowing you have so much to offer, but feeling a persistent gap between your intentions and your actions.I provide a space where you can finally stop performing and start exploring what it means to be you. We don't focus on fixing who you are; we work on understanding your natural rhythms and unlocking the energy that has been tied up in self-criticism. It’s about finding a way of living that feels less like a struggle and more like yourself.

Where to start?

Whether you want to understand the 'inside-out' approach I take, explore the logistics of woodland or online sessions, or simply find the practical details on fees, you can find your way via the options below. There is no right place to start—simply choose the path that feels most relevant to you today.

ADHD Support for Adults

A diagnosis is a starting point, not a destination.If you were diagnosed with ADHD later in life, you likely spent years -perhaps decades - wondering why the 'simple' things felt so heavy. You might have been called "gifted but lazy," or felt like you were constantly sprinting just to stay in the same place as everyone else.Getting the diagnosis may bring relief, but it also brings a complex wave of grief for the time lost and the struggle endured.I provide a therapeutic space specifically for adults (typically aged 30-50) who are navigating this 'grief-relief loop' and want to move beyond the shame of their past.

Who I Help

I work with people who are tired of "masking" and are ready to explore what it actually means to live as a neurodivergent adult. You might find yourself here because of:

  • Processing the Diagnosis: A space to navigate the "seismic shift" of a late diagnosis—moving through the grief for the lost years, the anger of being misunderstood, and the process of uncovering who you are beneath the mask.

  • The Weight of Shame: Feeling like you are 'fundamentally broken' despite your intelligence and effort.

  • The Burnout Cycle: Moving between bursts of intense energy and total exhaustion.

  • Relationship Friction: Feeling misunderstood by partners or struggling with the emotional intensity that ADHD can bring.

  • Feeling "Stuck": Knowing what you "should" do, but finding an invisible wall between your intentions and your actions.

My Approach

There are many excellent ADHD coaches who provide the organisational tools and productivity systems that are often the best evidence-based route for symptom management. That isn’t what I do.I offer a relational, embodied approach to therapy. This means we focus on how your ADHD feels, in your body and your life. While we may occasionally touch on psychoeducation or practical tools if you find them helpful, our primary goal is to help you process the emotional impact of your neurodivergence.We work to unlock your energy by moving away from frantic productivity and toward self-acceptance. Success in our work isn't about becoming "normal"; it's about becoming a fuller, more grounded version of yourself—limitations and all.

How We Can Work Together

I offer therapy in the way that best suits your sensory needs and lifestyle:

  • Nature-Based (In-Person): Working outdoors in ancient woodland on the outskirts of Birmingham. A powerful way to settle the ADHD nervous system.

  • Remote Nature-Based: Bringing the outdoors into our online work. We both move or sit in our respective natural spaces while connected via audio.

  • Online: From the comfort of your own safe space, removing the logistical load of travel.

  • In-Room: Traditional face-to-face sessions in a dedicated, quiet consulting space.

Next Steps

I know that reaching out can feel like a huge task.To make it easier, I offer a free 30-minute consultation call. This is a no-pressure conversation where you can tell me a bit about what’s going on, and we can see if my style feels right for you.To book or get in touch to ask a question, use the link below.

Fees

Introductory Phone Call
Free (telephone or online only)Nature-Based Therapy / Walk-and-Talk
£70 per 50-minute sessionOnline and Telephone Counselling
£70 per 50-minute sessionIn Person (Indoors) Counselling
£80 per 50-minute sessionA limited number of concessionary places are available for those on low incomes and students. If you believe this applies to you, please do get in touch below and we can look at this in further detail.

Nature-Based Therapy

For some ADHD brains, traditional therapy can feel like just another high-pressure environment. The demand to sit still, maintain eye contact, and articulate complex emotions in a clinical setting can be exhausting. Often, you may find yourself more focused on "performing" the role of a patient than on the actual work of healing.I offer a neuro-affirming alternative: Nature-Based Therapy. Set within an ancient broadleaved woodland on the outskirts of Birmingham, or remotely nationwide (click here for more about remote nature-based therapy) this is a space where the rigid structures of the clinic are replaced by the restorative rhythms of the natural world.

Why Nature? The Science of ADHD Regulation

By moving our work into the woodland, we tap into several key benefits:

  • Movement as a Catalyst: For the ADHD brain, thought and motion are linked. The rhythmic physical input of walking acts as a grounding anchor, making it easier to process complex feelings than when sitting in "static silence."

  • The Parallel Gaze: Face-to-face eye contact can feel like scrutiny. Walking side-by-side removes this pressure. This parallel processing lets your mind wander just enough to find the words you need without the intensity of a direct gaze.

  • Brain Recharge: While offices can be under-stimulating, nature provides a gentle set of sensory experiences. This background input satisfies the ADHD brain’s need for stimulation, lowering cortisol and allowing the prefrontal cortex to recharge focus and memory.

  • Biological Uplift: Natural light and phytoncides (essential oils from trees) provide a physiological boost to your mood. This shift eases the high-alert state many ADHD adults carry, lowering heart rates and settling the nervous system.

  • A Non-Judgmental Space: ADHD life can feel like a tangle of unfinished ideas. Nature is inherently non-linear and imperfect. Being in a space that doesn’t demand straight lines creates the emotional safety needed to explore shame and find perspective.

What Happens in a Session?

Our work is collaborative and fluid. We typically meet at my 'outdoor consulting room' - a secluded clearing by a stream, tucked away from formal paths. Whether we are walking along a path, or sat on a felled tree, the process is designed for the ADHD nervous system:

  • The Sit Spot: We begin by simply witnessing the environment. This isn't a forced meditation, but a moment to let your nervous system land and settle into the space.

  • Active Processing: Because movement helps move the mind, we may incorporate it. You are free to pace, fidget with the landscape, or walk as you talk - physical expressions of thought that often lead to clearer insights.

  • Nature as a Mirror: The environment reflects your internal world. The flow of the stream or the resilience of an ancient oak can provide a safe, external way to explore complex emotions and tangled thoughts.

Practicalities

  • The Weather: Unless there is a dangerous wind warning, we go outside. There is a profound depth to be found in the freezing cold or the pouring rain; these elements often reflect the internal "weather" we are navigating.

  • Preparation: This way of working encourages a proactive kind of self-care. I’ll ask you to plan ahead—boots for the mud, a warm coat for the winter and sun hats for the summer months.

  • Privacy: While the woods are open, I manage our route to ensure maximum privacy. My "clearing" has no formal paths leading to it, offering a level of quiet and confidentiality that rivals many indoor rooms.

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Locations

Clowes Wood (Earlswood)

A stunning area of semi-natural woodland adjacent to the better known Earlswood Lakes:

  • The Meeting Point: For our first session, I will meet you at the gate between the woods and the car park. Once we are familiar with the landscape, we can arrange an easy-to-find spot further within the woods.

  • Parking: To maintain the confidentiality of the space, I provide specific car park details upon booking. Parking is free and convenient.

  • Terrain & Kit: In Autumn, Winter, and early Spring, it gets muddy. While professional walking boots aren't strictly necessary, please wear shoes you don’t mind getting dirty—your best trainers are probably best left at home!

  • Urban Option (Kings Heath): I also offer nature-based sessions in a local green space in Kings Heath. This is a great option if you are local to the area or rely on public transport, while still getting the benefits of working outdoors.

Remote Nature-Based

For those who cannot attend in person but want to move beyond the four walls of traditional video therapy, this option bridges the gap between digital convenience and the grounding power of nature:

  • The Format: We connect via phone, Google Meet or WhatsApp while you are in a green space of your choosing - whether that’s your local park, your garden, or local nature reserve.

  • Parallel Movement: We walk as we talk, providing the same benefits to your nervous system as if we were in person, no matter where you are located.

  • Shared Environment: Even though we are in different places, we use the nature around us as a shared tool. We might both pause to observe the weather or the landscape.

  • Privacy & Safety: If you choose this option, I ask that you find a space where you feel safe to speak freely and ensure you have a stable signal. It’s a powerful way to integrate the healing benefits of nature into your immediate, local environment.

Indoors

I do understand that for any of number of reasons, outdoor working may not be for everyone and so I also offer face-to-face sessions from my consulting room in Kings Heath.Set in a discreet location just off the main high street, the space is light, spacious and comfortable:

  • Arrival: There is no waiting room at this location. I ask that you arrive exactly at your appointment time; you can ring the bell to the left of the door, and I will come down to meet you.

  • Accessibility: Please note that this room is accessed via stairs and there is no lift on-site.

  • Transport: The location is exceptionally well-served by public transport. The 50, 35, 11A/11C, 76, and 27 buses all drop within a 5-minute walk. The newly opened Kings Heath Railway Station also serves the location by train.

  • Parking: There is on-street parking nearby, or the local Lidl offers 90 minutes of free parking for customers.

Online

For online work, you simply choose a space that is confidential and works for you and we connect via phone or video call.For many this is the easiest, most convenient way of working and for many people is as affective as traditional face-to-face counselling.

My Story

I know what it’s like to live with a brain that feels like it’s constantly at 100%, while the world expects you to operate at a different frequency.For many years, my life was a series of intense bursts of energy followed by inevitable burnout. I was the child with "so much potential" who struggled to settle into the rigid structures of the working world. I moved through a cycle of job instability and the heavy emotional states that often come with undiagnosed ADHD. Like many, I used the tools I had at the time—including substances and impulsive behaviors—to try and quiet the internal noise.But underneath it all was a persistent sense of shame. The feeling that I was somehow failing at a game everyone else seemed to know the rules to...

My journey into therapy began in my mid-20s. It didn't immediately fix things, but it was the first time I began to chip away at the self-judgment I’d carried for decades. During that same period, I found myself returning to the woods.Growing up in a village surrounded by trees, the forest had always been a complex space for me - a paradoxical place of both caution but also profound safety. I eventually spent several years working in nature conservation, leading working groups and providing nature education. It was here that I realized that my own ADHD brain didn't need to be fixed; it just needed a different environment in order to thrive.

Why I Work This Way

I became a counsellor because I wanted to provide the kind of support I once needed: someone who sees the person behind the symptoms.I don't work from a clinical pedestal. I bring my own lived experience of ADHD into the room (or the woods). This means:

  • I understand the grief-relief loop of a late diagnosis.

  • I recognise the exhaustion of masking and trying to fit into neurotypical systems.

  • I prioritise realness over jargon. I am an adaptable, collaborative therapist who values authenticity over rigid professional distance.

I am still navigating my own ADHD. I still have days where the monkey mind is loud and the organization slips. I believe this makes me a better therapist, not a lesser one. It means I meet you as a fellow traveler, not a finished product.In our sessions, there is no pressure to perform or have your thoughts organised. Whether we are in the office or in my outdoor consulting room, we are working together to build a life that actually fits your unique wiring.

If you’re ready to stop fighting your nature and start understanding it, I’m here to help.

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Contact Me

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Blog

If the rest of the website provides a pencil sketch of me and my work, then this is the place where I will begin to add some shading and colour to the overall picture.It won't all be counselling related, but hopefully all of it can help to give an impression of me and who I am and therefore provide a sense of myself for those who are interested in working together.It is all written content, but if video is more your thing then do visit my my Instagram page where I regularly post videos.Unlike the rest of the site, this is currently - and will always be - a work in progress. So do check back regularly if you find anything you like.

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Plant and Woodcrafts

Alongside my counselling work, I make simple functional and decorative pieces from foraged wood and plants. This process draws on the same values that sit at the heart of my nature-based practice: attentiveness, patience,and respect for the living world. Working with wood and plants invites a slower pace and a different kind of listening — to grain, growth, and form. Many of these woods come from the same outdoor spaces where I carry out my therapeutic work.The pieces I make are not perfect, nor would I want them to be. In fact it is extremely important to me that the imperfections - knots in the wood, chainsaw marks, fungal or insect damage and weathering - are given space to be in the finished item. Like in human relationships, there are always flaws, natural features or scars, wounds that have been acted upon us, that inevitably show up even where we try our best to hide or suppress them. I believe that it is through accepting and even prizing these aspects of ourselves, of our lives and of the things that inhabit our world that beauty, meaning and connection can emerge.

Mounted Epiphytes

Epiphytes are a type of non-parasitic plant that grows on other plants. They are often seen growing on tree bark, or in clumps of moss. They obtain their moisture from the surrounding environment in a range of ways dependent on species, but always without taking from their host.I was first introduced to mounted epiphytes by my wife. In her native Taiwan they’re commonly grown in homes, on the street and in cafes and other businesses (see image below).I was immediately struck by the strange, striking forms and the sense of abundance that emerges from seeing man-made structures dripping with lush greenery. Immediately hooked, we got to work making some for ourselves - initially just for our home, but increasingly for family, friends and more recently paying customers.

The range of epiphytic plants available in the UK is somewhat limited, but still substantial enough to sustain our ongoing experimentation. We primarily use staghorn ferns (Platycerium spp. - particularly the common staghorn fern Platycerium bifurcatum) due to their striking appearance and relative resilience in their non-native climate. As the name suggests, they bare a resemblance to deer antlers, and thus mounted on a wall are reminiscent of a stag's head hunting trophy.Other species we regularly mount include the blue-star fern (Phlebodium aureum), fish-bone cactus (Epiphyllum anguliger) and bromeliads (Bromeliaceae spp), amongst many others.The wood used for the mounts are all either foraged or reclaimed hardwoods. As above (and below) I like rustic, organic forms for that honour the natural make-up of the material, always seeking to preserve the story a given chunk of wood has to tell and provide a setting for the plants that is aesthetically coherent.

Hand-Carved Spoons

I am also an occasional spoon carver, working directly from found wood using only axe and knives. They’re left unsanded — burnished or knife-finished — and shaped to remain close to the material they came from. I like spoons that look rough, organic, like they've been found on the woodland floor or amongst the embers of a still smouldering campfire.My favourite woods to carve with are birch (Betula spp.), alder (Alnus glutinosa) and cherry (Prunus spp.) foraged almost entirely from local woodlands, parks and gardens.

Below is a sample of some of my work from the past few years...

Both mounted plants and spoons are available for purchase upon request. Click below and drop me a message with a brief explanation of what you are looking for.Due to the nature and means of sourcing materials, I am unable to reproduce exactly anything pictured above, but will always do my best to approximate as closely as possible a given design.

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Whether we work together or not, I wish you steadiness, clarity, and connection on your path.