My name is Lori Fitzgerald and I am a psychotherapist, mentor, artist, writer, and creative living in the North of England but supporting clients throughout Europe.

I didn’t follow the conventional path into coaching and psychotherapy. I’m not a particularly conventional type of person really so it was always unlikely that I would be a conventional therapist.

Instead, I began a Level 4 Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling Diploma, added in a Masters in Clinical Psychology and then a further Post Grad in Art Therapy plus a few other extra pieces of academic therapeutic magic.

While studying in London, I also worked in various creative fields including architecture, public relations, fashion styling, & catwalk project management, while also volunteering as a counsellor for individuals facing HIV diagnoses.

In 1999, I returned to Leeds as a fresh faced post-grad and worked with charities supporting homeless youth and women with alcohol dependency. By 2006, while completing my design degree, I founded the UK's first maternity trauma support group outside London, offering crucial support to women and their partners. I then worked for the NHS as an assistant in the early pregnancy and antenatal units, as a senior level project manager in maternity service development, and as an end of life support worker (joint NHS and Macmillan).