About me
I am an experienced, fully qualified registered Psychotherapist in private practice in Brighton & Hove and in Islington,London.
I work with people who are experiencing Anxiety, Depression or difficulties with mood, have feelings of being stuck in life, are questioning identity, struggling with relationships, work challenges or going through times of adversity and loss.
Existential Psychotherapy asks a fundamental question “Who are you, and how are you to live in the world in which you find yourself?” Perhaps you may already be asking yourself this. What’s really going on? What isn’t happening? What seems to limit you? What choices do you actually have to make, and how did things end up like this? What’s going to happen and how can you bear not knowing? How can you be with the feelings and situations that make you uncomfortable? Why is it so difficult sometimes to be with other people?
Our sessions may offer you a different kind of speaking and saying, listening and hearing that you may not find anywhere else in your life. They provide a space for you that is challenging yet contained in its boundaries. It offers true conversation, where meanings and possibilities can come to awareness. It is a place for questions, not necessarily answers. It is a space to bring your immediate feelings, whether sadness or joy.
Together we will explore what you experience in the world in which you find yourself today. We may discover how your past experiences and beliefs about the future may be informing this. Through our work, you may learn how to live creatively and happily with others in an uncertain, changing world. We will seek understanding not explanation. Rather than predetermine a goal of change, you will discover openness to the change that is available for you, may already be happening unbeknown, or is to be co-created in relationship with the world of others in which you exist. You may discover it is something else entirely that needs to change or find the courage to stay the same.
I trained for five years in the School of Psychotherapy and Psychology at Regent’s University London, awarded the MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling with distinction and the Postgraduate Certificate in Existential Psychotherapy. I have trained in relationship (Couples) therapy at the Existential Academy.
I am a full member of the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) and a Full Clinical Member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). I am also a Registered Practitioner of the General Psychotherapy Council (GPsyC).
I am open to explore with you all experiences of identity, sexuality and difference that you may bring. I prefer to work with clients who can commit to the process over the longer term (typically 6 months or much longer) but I can also offer therapy over shorter 12 week periods. I prefer to work in person, but can offer online sessions when flexibility is needed.
I look forward to encountering you and starting the journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have an MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Distinction) from the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psychology at Regent’s University London. I completed my five year training with award of the Postgraduate Certificate in Existential Psychotherapy. I am a Full Clinical Member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and I am a Registered Member of BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
Informed by a rich life experience, I have special interests in identity issues and LGB experience, the impacts of workplace relationships, bullying and redundancy, maternal and gynaecological mental health, intergenerational trauma, and in the process of performers and creative artists. My existential psychotherapy approach invites you to explore and understand your life in the world in which you find yourself, to be open to possibilities and to find meaning, acceptance and authentic choice.
I am in private practice in Brighton & Hove and in North London.
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.
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.
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
£75.00 - £90.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I currently charge £75 for sessions in Brighton and £85 for sessions in London. However, I am open to negotiation.
When I work
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Further information
I see clients in-person in comfortable, purpose-designed therapy rooms in three locations in Islington Borough, North London: Barnsbury Therapy Rooms on Liverpool Road in Islington N1, Shelburne Road in Holloway N7 and Woodfall Road in Finsbury Park N4.
