About Alex
I'm Alex — an HCPC registered Dramatherapist working with people who are getting through the days while carrying a lot more underneath than anyone else realises.
My one to one therapeutic work
I qualified as an HCPC Registered Dramatherapist in 2019. Since then, I have worked therapeutically with children, young people/adults, parents and families, supporting people through experiences of trauma, neurodivergence, change, identity and relationships.
Throughout my career I have worked across charities, schools, theatre companies and community organisations, including The Oasis Project, Spun Glass Theatre, Bloomin Arts, Veritas and schools across Brighton & Hove and South London. I receive regular clinical supervision and am committed to thoughtful, ethical practice.
Who I tend to work with
The people I work best with are often people who look like they're managing fine from the outside — showing up to school, college, work, everyone who needs them — while underneath they feel overwhelmed, exhausted, disconnected, or like they're one bad day from everything falling apart. That shows up differently depending on where you are in life: for some it's early motherhood, and the way parenting can quietly strip away the structures you used to rely on. For others it's realising later than expected that they might be autistic or have ADHD. For younger clients, it's often just the sense that everyone else got handed a manual for how to be a person that never arrived for them.
My approach
I believe therapy begins with relationship.
Before anything else, I want people to feel welcomed, listened to and safe.
I don't work as a blank slate — I'll be a real, present person with you, not someone sitting back in silence.
Dramatherapy offers more than one way of exploring an experience. Sometimes we talk. Sometimes we use metaphor, imagery, writing or creativity. The work is always guided by what feels most comfortable and meaningful for you.
It would be a privilege to accompany you as you tell, explore and make sense of your story.
Creating spaces for parents
Alongside my one-to-one therapy work, I spent five years facilitating creative groups for parents and babies aged 0–3, including First/Second Spun Glass Theatre and The Indigo Project with Stone Soup.
Those groups deepened my understanding of the complexity, contradictions and transformation of early parenthood, and reinforced the importance of creating spaces where parents themselves feel seen.
Why i also offer The Birth
My fascination with birth began when I was eighteen. At the time, I seriously considered training as a midwife because I was captivated by the extraordinary experience of birth
What drew me in was not only the arrival of a baby, but what birth asks of the person giving birth. I was fascinated by the vulnerability, strength and transformation involved, and by the privilege of being alongside someone during such an intimate moment in their life.
Although my path led me to train as a Dramatherapist rather than a midwife, that curiosity never left me.
Becoming a parent myself deepened my understanding of birth stories.
My own birth story did not unfold as I had imagined or dreamed. It contained moments of pride, love and joy alongside disappointment, uncertainty and unexpected turns.
It reinforced something I had long believed: birth stories are rarely simply “good” or “bad”. They can hold many things at once.
As I spoke more openly about my fascination with birth, people began sharing their own stories with me. I was struck by how deeply many of us want to tell these experiences when we sense that someone is genuinely interested in listening.
Every birth has a story worth telling
The Birth brings together my experience as a Dramatherapist, my lifelong curiosity about birth, and my belief that every person deserves space to explore the story they carry.
