Amy is a qualified counselling psychotherapist. Over the years, Amy has volunteered for school youth programmes with a focus on ethics and personal development, working for several charities and agencies. In 2008 she qualified as a counsellor and psychotherapist. Since then she has gone on to build her own practice as well as managing an affordable counselling charity in her home county of Wiltshire.

Amy has a down to earth approach to counselling, she believes that you are the expert on you, and she provides a welcoming space for clients to explore whatever they want to bring to therapy, to enable the individual to work towards becoming their most authentic self. In her sessions, Amy uses a variety of approaches and tools tailored to the client’s individual therapy goals.

Whether it’s long-term counselling or single session therapy, Amy believes that counselling can give you the space and time you need to gain clarity and understanding of who you are and what you want to achieve in life, without fear of judgement.

Jackie has significant personal experience of gender diversity. Her first husband came out as trans and transitioned during the course of their relationship. This experience introduced her to the emotional and practical complexities of transition. Jackie soon became aware of the lack of support available, especially for partners and parents. This fact has been a strong driver for Jackie and motivates her work to this day. Jackie’s second husband is bi-gender and together they founded, and run, a registered charity, Safe Haven, which provides support to the transgender community in Cornwall.

Jackie facilitates support groups for transgender adults, their partners and family members, and gender questioning teenagers. She is also qualified to deliver education and training on gender diversity and awareness. Jackie is an Independent Advisor with the Devon & Cornwall Police Diversity team.

Before qualifying as a counsellor and psychotherapist, Jackie worked for Social Services for 15 years, using her person-centred approach to help young people in long-term foster care make sense of their lives and move forward in a positive way. During this time she undertook a lot of training in working with people on the Autistic Spectrum and this gives her a deep understanding of neuro diversity and its correlation with gender identity. Jackie has a down to earth, non-judgemental ethos which she finds encourages people to explore their thoughts and feelings honestly, no matter what they bring to the session.

As a fully qualified counsellor, with a post grad diploma in Gender Sexuality and Diverse Relationships, Marianne is our most experienced counsellor in the field of transgender care. She heads up our team of specialist gender counsellors at GenderGP. Marianne combines her own experiences as a trans woman with her affinity for others going through their own gender journey.

She came into this particular branch of therapy after struggling to find someone who could support her with her own transition. Marianne brings a unique insight to her practice, both from her own first hand experiences and her understanding of the impact which transition can have on families and loved ones.

She enjoys working with people of all ages, including children and their families, creating a non-judgmental space in which parents can talk openly about their own issues in relation to their child’s transition.