About Me

Dinah Purton (she/her)
MA BSc PG Dip. Relate Qual. MBACP (Accred) AMBICA

I have been a relationship and generalist psychotherapist for 20 years and have worked extensively with individuals, couples, families and young people from many diverse backgrounds. I am currently working remotely with individuals only: this could be with a relationship or family focus, or looking at a wide range of issues from identity, creativity, career and personal development to managing major life transitions, grief, loss and rebuilding. For the last 4 years I have developed a particular interest in neurodiversity, being ADHD myself and from a neurodivergent family. I am also a BICA accredited fertility counsellor and therapeutic life coach.

I am an interactive, friendly and personal therapist who hopes to build a warm, supportive relationship with you. I do not have all the answers, rather I help you find your own answers and strategies and aim to find new ways of looking at situations so together we can come up with options that support you.

I especially enjoy working with people who are creating their lives and themselves outside of their comfort zone, or away from social norms. Whether you are starting over after divorce, dreaming of an unconventional career change or retirement, choosing relationships with more than one partner, exploring your gender, sexual or neurodivergent identity, or starting a family on your own, this new century offers many different options for creating a life that suits you and is not prescribed. I hope to help you know yourself and become as happy and accepting of that as possible, whatever and whoever you are.

As a specialist fertility counsellor I have 10 years experience helping people along their fertility journey. This includes the full spectrum of family arrangements, from single women starting a family using donor sperm to those in same sex couples, those considering surrogacy or adoption and transgender people considering their fertility options prior to medical transition.

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