About Me

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

I have a wide spread of specialist areas but regardless of which of those led you here, I am above all curious about the person I see in front of me. I am fascinated by every individual experience and will meet you with friendly curiosity whoever you are and whatever you’re struggling with. Hopefully my broad experience of all kinds of lives and scenarios can help us explore together what will help you.

As a relationship and generalist psychotherapist for 20+ years, I have worked extensively with individuals, couples, families and young people from many diverse backgrounds. Over the last 5 years I have developed a particular interest in neurodiversity, being ADHD myself and from a neurodivergent family. I am a BICA accredited fertility counsellor and therapeutic coach with a particular focus on ADHD life strategies. I am also part of a global AI Mental Health Collective, recognising both the benefits and risks of new technology, and offering support and consultation on AI related issues.

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, choosing relationships with more than one partner, exploring your gender, sexual or neurodivergent identity, my aim is to empower you to create 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.

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 offer new ways of looking at situations so together we can come up with options that support you.

As a specialist fertility counsellor I have over 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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