Why ‘Curvy Counselling’?

When I began in private practice, I specialised in counselling people around fat issues. So I chose the name Curvy Counselling for two reasons:

• Because I’m fat, and wanted to provide fat-friendly counselling.

• Because the process of having counselling often doesn’t follow a clear straight path. There can be surprising twists and turns. For example, what you think you want to work on may not be what actually emerges. You may also find that you come round to encounter the same issues again and again, and come to deal with them in different ways and on different levels.

I still give weight-neutral counselling, and love doing so. But as I continued in private practice, my passion for working with other people who don’t have children developed.

I’ve kept the name Curvy Counselling because the above reasons still apply, and also because finding out you can’t have children can come as a real curve ball.