Hello
I’m Ruby, a counsellor who believes therapy works best when it feels human. I came to this work through a combination of professional training and lived experience, and my practice is shaped by a respect for complexity, care, and the ways people learn to survive difficult circumstances.
I was drawn to counselling through a long standing interest in how people make sense of their inner worlds, particularly when life feels overwhelming or tangled. My own lived experiences as a young carer, with multiple chronic illnesses, understanding my own sexuality and mental health, have informed my understanding of trauma, neurodiversity, identity, mental health, and relational dynamics, and I’m mindful of holding this with appropriate boundaries. I don’t bring my personal story into the room unless it’s helpful. What it offers instead is empathy, sensitivity, and an appreciation for how careful and paced therapy often needs to be.
I work from a person centred, relational approach, which means I see therapy as something we do together rather than something done to you. I aim to offer a calm, thoughtful space where you don’t need to perform, explain yourself perfectly, or arrive with clear answers.
Why Human Counselling?
I chose the name Human Counselling because I wanted my practice to reflect what therapy feels like at its best. Human counselling is not about fixing, diagnosing, or rushing toward solutions. It’s about being met as a whole person, with curiosity, care, and respect for your lived experience.
I often use the metaphor of untangling yarn to describe the therapeutic process (hence the image on the main page). Thoughts, feelings, memories, and relationships can become tightly knotted over time. Therapy offers space to slow down, gently separate what’s there, and make sense of things without forcing them into neat answers.
Human Counselling is grounded in the belief that healing happens through the therapeutic relationship. That means warmth without performance, structure without rigidity, and space for complexity. My aim is to offer a therapeutic relationship that feels steady, thoughtful, and real. A place where nothing needs to be rushed and you don’t need to be anything other than yourself and where you are met with real human responses, warmth and care.