Hello, I’m Cora.
I specialise in helping Millennials, Gen. Z, and members of the queer community navigate modern life.
Working with me
I find it's hard to write about therapy without it sounding…well, like a lot of therapy-speak. Which isn't ideal, as it makes it harder for you - the reader - to find someone that feels like a real person, rather than TherapyGPT. So, I’ll do my best to avoid the cliches, and try to give you something more concrete to work with.
I offer practical, down-to-earth therapy that gets modern life. I've been working with Millennials and Gen. Z since 2018 - which in real terms means my private practice is older than Lana Del Rey's Norman Rockwell album. Throughout these years, I've been alongside you in the trenches, helping people find solid ground when life feels anything but. And, as the Lana reference may have hinted, I have particular experience of working with queer stories.
About Me
I'm from Bristol originally, and moved back there in 2024, via a few years in New Zealand, a year in France, and 17 years in London. Before starting my practice, my working life spanned the charity sector, Film and TV, and a start-up in the wine trade. My academic life has pretty effectively adhered to the archetype of a kid whose nose was semi-permanently in a book - I like the big ideas that come from the smallest details of life.
As an Integrative therapist, I blend lots of different influences into my work, beyond just the world of therapy theory. My experience with languages, literature and philosophy ensures these are frequent presences in my therapy room. Also, as a classic Millennial, I am very interested in pop culture, and firmly believe that even truly terrible reality TV can provide a window into ourselves, in the most surprising ways (it’s not only dusty old therapy tomes that house important insight). Consequently, sessions with me are just as likely to feature Aristotle and Simone de Beauvoir as they are The White Lotus or Love Lies Bleeding.
I’m an Accredited member of the BACP, and over nearly a decade in this field, I've worked with all sorts of folk exploring all sorts of challenges. There are some commonalities in who often finds me: I have particular experience of working with creatives, people with a background of high achieving and perfectionism, people with a history of competitive sport, and people navigating IVF and queer parenting journeys.
Outside of sessions, I run a Substack account, in which I write about ‘counsel-culture’: pop culture seen through a therapist’s eyes (spoiler: I’m the therapist). I also play weekly football (not well) with my beloved team, who kindly tolerate my very idiosyncratic on-pitch style.
I’m sometimes joined in sessions by my calico cat Rizzo, who fortunately adheres to the same confidentiality standards that I do.
My Specialisms
I’m experienced at working with a wide range of contemporary challenges, including:
anxiety and depression / burnout and perfectionism / relationships, communication and boundaries / family challenges / self-esteem and self-criticism / identity, life direction and meaning / bereavement, failure and loss / LGBTQ+ issues and gender, sex and relationship diversity (GSRD) / parenting and queer parenting experiences / career and workplace difficulties / loneliness, feeling lost, and feeling stuck.
I also work with lots of people who struggle to express what exactly brings them to therapy, but know that something needs to change. It’s OK to come to therapy without a checklist of issues you want to explore – we can start from wherever you find yourself now.