About me
“As a therapist, I am a companion.
I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.” Virginia Satir
I am a qualified, UKCP accredited, Gestalt psychotherapist, working in Fulham. I offer a space where we can explore your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, beliefs, and values, and help you identify the patterns, and choices that may be limiting your growth and potential.
My multicultural background makes me a non-judgmental and compassionate therapist, and helps me understand and counsel individuals from all kinds of cultural and social backgrounds, ethnicities, and ethos. I will engage with you in an honest, respectful and vibrant way.
I work with different issues including: Anxiety, Borderline Processes, Domestic Abuse, Race and Identity Issues, Relationship Issues, Low Self-esteem, Bereavement and Loss, Emotional Abuse, PTSD, Sexual Abuse, Self-harm, Stress and Trauma.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc in Gestalt Psychotherapy
- LLM in Human Rights Law
I have completed my training in Gestalt psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute in London. Gestalt psychotherapy is a humanistic, person-centred, and holistic therapeutic approach that borrows from psychoanalysis, gestalt psychology, existential philosophy, Zen Buddhism and Taoism. In Gestalt therapy, the goal is greater awareness, including your awareness of yourself, your choices, your responsibility and your environment.
I am passionate about bridging the gap between mental health and human rights. I have extensive experience counselling migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who have survived exile, torture, human trafficking and modern slavery. I am interested in difference and power dynamics in the room, and how systems of power, discrimination, and inequality shape our lived experiences. I firmly believe that in Gestalt psychotherapy, “the personal is political”, especially when working from a trauma-informed stance. Healing is relational and systemic, always happening within a larger political field.
I work with individuals on an open-ended basis. I work in English, French and Arabic (Lebanese dialect).
I am a UKAGP member and a registered member of UKCP.
I adhere to the UKCP code of ethics.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. 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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Further information
If you would like to arrange an initial assessment, please call me or email me first so we can discuss your needs. We then commit to an initial six sessions, after which we review our work together.
