I am an experienced counsellor, counselling Lecturer and member of the LGBTQ+ community. Before starting my own counselling practice, I was part of the counselling team at The Rainbow Project. I supported LGBTQ+ people and those who are questioning with issues around sexuality or gender, often including feelings of shame, depression and anxiety, and any other issues that were having a negative impact on life.

Working with people over the years, I know that LGBTQ+ people often have negative experiences trying to access help for their mental health. With this in mind I set up Nat Creighton Counselling with a focus on providing safe, inclusive, accepting and LGBTQ knowledgeable counselling. I am part of the Pink Therapy UK wide network of counsellors, doing additional training and keeping up to date with contemporary thinking on LGBTQ lives. I am also a member of TACTT (Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia).

Many of my clients also experience neurodivergence & neurodiversity and I am on an ongoing journey of training and self-education to make sure my practice is safe, flexible and inclusive.

I also work with and welcome clients who are not LGBTQ (straight, heterosexual) and I believe a queer perspective on the world and mental health can be beneficial to everyone.

Outside this work, I am an allotment owner, artist and cat Dad. I put as much value on gaining insight into human nature and what I can learn from artists, authors and songwriters as I do from learning counselling theory.

Art work titled “Everything I know about myself I learned from other people” by Nat Creighton.