About me
I offer private, confidential psychotherapy for people carrying significant professional responsibility.
I work in the Person-Centred tradition, which means sessions follow what you bring rather than a fixed structure or a predetermined outcome. There is no agenda, no framework to work through, no directive guidance. What happens in our time together is shaped by you.
I work with founders, executives, senior leaders and professionals across corporate, creative, public and entrepreneurial environments. Many carry organisational responsibility, lead through complexity and change, or hold roles where the internal experience of that pressure rarely gets acknowledged anywhere.
You may not have considered therapy before. If so, that is common among the people I see. Some arrive with something specific. Others arrive because thinking has become harder than it should be, and cannot say much more than that at the outset. Either is a reasonable place to begin.
Sessions are unhurried and held online or in person.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP, membership number 419393)
- Level 6 Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, awarded with Distinction, Metanoia Institute, London
- Working within the BACP Ethical Framework, in regular clinical supervision
- Clinical experience at the Metanoia Counselling and Psychotherapy Service and at Islington Mind, with people whose circumstances and experiences varied considerably, including those facing significant social and personal adversity
- Over twenty years in senior executive and operational roles before moving into psychotherapy
- LLB in Law, King's College London
Member organisations
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£130.00 per session
Additional information
- Sessions last fifty minutes.
- Our initial thirty-minute conversation is free of charge.
- Payment is by bank transfer in advance of each session.
- Cancellation terms and privacy policies are set out in our working agreement.
Further information
I offer a free introductory conversation of thirty minutes, held online. It is a chance to ask questions about how I work and to notice whether the fit feels right. There is no expectation that you continue.
I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. Everything discussed is confidential, within the limits set out in my working agreement, which I share before any ongoing work begins.
I also write essays on the internal experience of professional life, available at altaneum.com that you may find interesting.
