07/02/2026
The other day my son asked if I was a therapist 🤷🏼♀️
Obviously, I’m not but what I do is not just write Wills 🙄
This is where my career has progressed to after 25 years qualified, first as Chartered Legal Executive and then as a Solicitor, and I have a depth of knowledge and understanding that I bring with me.
My past experience has been in litigation and family divorce work. I understand, far too much, even from my personal experience, that family relationships are complex - often difficult and break down. Fall outs and disputes happen.
Never be ashamed to tell me! 😌
I’ve owned a business with staff and I’m all too fully aware of how a business can run into difficulties, the hard issues faced and insolvency. I’ve hit rock bottom, struggled but put on a happy face and finally declared myself bankrupt with business failure. If you’ve ever been through it, it’s the most surreal ‘best thing I ever did’ and I made it back. Re-evaluated life, family, friends, what and who is important. What and who I needed to let go.
I bring the experience of this litigation (housing, debts, mortgage claims, building issues, injury, negligence), business management, business failing, relationships and family law knowledge to my appointments. I deal with multi million pound estates and plan to maximise inheritance tax allowances. My clients are located from Carlisle to Devon and I work alongside lawyers abroad.
This is not just will writing.
I’ve sat with clients as they approach end of life, clients who have been diagnosed with terminal disease or chronic health problems, spouses whose partner has dementia, widowers who have lost their love of their life but can’t now talk to anyone at all because of Covid restrictions and are incredibly lonely, clients who need to talk about their business or complex family issues, clients with disabled children and those who have left their spouse or simply have no-one in their life at all and actually just need me to figure things out for them because no one else will 😢
And… after all the life…… I administer estates, deal with the house, the pets (and the fleas), the contents (found nuclear once and oh you don’t want to know what else 🫣🤯), the banks, the nice (and the absolutely shockingly awful that you couldn’t even dream of) beneficiaries of Wills, the bills, the banks, the taxman, the funeral director and stood inbetween warring siblings who can’t even speak to other let alone want each other to know addresses so I shoulder it all instead!
I prepare the Wills and trusts personally (don’t pass it to anyone else to do! It’s my own work!) and I bring the conclusion needed by loved ones ❤️
So no, I don’t write Wills but maybe I am a little bit of a therapist and after all that I know when it’s time to ask the universe to help with healing and take a moment for me to reconfigure, have a brew ☕️ and give my dogs a fuss 🐶🐶🐶🐶
