About me
How Can Therapy help?
You may be facing difficulties that are affecting your work or straining important relationships. Perhaps you feel anxious, low, irritable, ashamed, or unsure of yourself. You might be finding it harder to cope than usual, or feeling stuck in patterns you don’t fully understand.
Struggling on your own can feel isolating. It can be difficult to see a way forward.
Therapy offers a space to slow down and think. In the short term, it can help you feel more stable and supported. Over time, it can help you understand and work through the deeper issues driving stress or distress, leading to lasting change.
The people I work with not only experience relief from the difficulties that bring them to therapy, but also develop a stronger, more confident sense of who they are. They become more effective at work and better able to build and sustain meaningful relationships.
First Steps
I have had many years of psychotherapy myself, both for personal and professional development. I understand that starting therapy can feel daunting, especially when deciding who to see and what kind of therapy might suit you.
I offer a free initial call so we can think together about what brings you to therapy, answer any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether this feels like the right fit.
What is Therapy About?
I specialise in psychodynamic (also known as psychoanalytic) psychotherapy. This approach works in depth with unconscious patterns that lie outside our immediate awareness.
Often, present difficulties are shaped by earlier experiences, long-standing relationship dynamics, or demanding work environments. Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand these patterns so that you are no longer driven by them without choice.
This approach can be particularly helpful for long-term or recurring difficulties.
Areas of Specialty
I have specific training and experience to support you to:
- Process a crisis from my work as a psychology lead in an NHS crisis service
- Manage the challenges of working in healthcare and other high pressure environments having practised as a medical doctor
- Gain understanding around intercultural issues related to race, class, faith, gender, sexuality and disability having trained in intercultural psychotherapy
- Grieve effectively enabling you to process and work through bereavement
- Tackle difficulties managing anger especially supporting many men to move from anger and aggressiveness to be able to thrive in work and relationships
- Grow through a spiritual crisis and challenging meditation experiences as an experienced meditator of 15 years, teaching and writing on the topic
- Work through gambling and gaming addiction
- Process childhood or more recent sexual assault, domestic violence or other abuse
- Get your life back on track towards thriving if struggling with self-injury and suicidality.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have worked in mental health in the NHS, the charity sector and higher education for 14 years.
In addition to my private practice in London Bridge, I work as a senior psychotherapist in the NHS as the psychological professional lead for a London borough's community service.
I trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and within the NHS, before this working as a medical doctor, qualifying in 2012.
I am an independent researcher most recently publishing a book with Routledge called Meditation for Psychotherapists, run courses on the subject and lecture in psychotherapy up to masters level.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£90.00 - £120.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I offer a free initial call for us to think together about what brings you to therapy, for you to get a sense of what it might be like to work together and answer any questions you might have.
I do not currently have any low fee slots available.
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