About me
Some difficulties don't respond to the usual approaches. You may have tried therapy before, or managed well enough for a long time, but something keeps recurring either in relationships, in how you function under pressure, in the gap between how you appear to others and how you actually feel. The pattern is visible to you. Changing it is another matter.
The people I work with tend to share a shape. High-functioning on the outside. Underneath, a pattern that has not shifted despite previous therapy - the same kind of relationship, the emotional regulation problem, the same response under pressure, the same distance between how they cope and how they feel. Often it traces back to a high-conflict or emotionally absent family. For many, success itself has become part of the problem: burnout, perfectionism, and the quiet sense that what they achieved did not deliver what they expected.
This kind of work requires going deeper than symptom management. I am a BACP-registered integrative therapist whose clinical work focuses on complex trauma, personality disorders, and entrenched relational patterns. I qualified with an MSc in Integrative Counselling at Birmingham Newman University and am a doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme. I work within an NHS specialist personality and complex trauma service.
Before training as a therapist, I spent over a decade in global engineering and energy including Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Siemens, working across four continents. That background means I understand high-performance professional environments from the inside, which shapes how I work with professionals navigating burnout, leadership stress, and the gap between external success and internal distress.
My specialist training includes transference-focused psychotherapy (under Otto Kernberg/ISTFP), mentalization-based treatment (Anna Freud Centre), Gottman couples therapy, and advanced work in complex trauma. I am also a certified workplace mediator.
Couples work focuses on repeating cycles of conflict, withdrawal, or disconnection that have resisted the couple's own efforts to resolve them.
My approach is depth-oriented: we work with the underlying patterns and dynamics driving the presenting difficulty, not symptoms alone. This is longer-term work, not a brief intervention.
Sessions are available in-person in Coventry and online via secure video.
If something here matches your own experience, you are welcome to email me. The first step is a short conversation to understand what you are bringing, and whether this is the right fit.
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Integrative Counselling, Birmingham Newman University
- BACP Registered Member (MBACP)
- Doctoral researcher, Doctorate in Clinical Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (DPPClinPrac), University of Exeter, In progress
- MBT for Narcissistic Personality Disorder & BPD, Anna Freud Centre
- One-year Advanced Specialist Training in Personality Disorders, International Society for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP), under Otto Kernberg's faculty
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy training, Sichuan Heguang Clinical Psychology Institute
- Relational Life Therapy, two-year formal training (Relational Life Institute)
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Levels 1 and 2
- Complex Trauma training ICS
- Accredited Workplace Mediator (CMC)
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
£140.00 - £400.00
Additional information
All clinical work begins with an initial assessment session (individuals: £200, 90 minutes; couples: £400, 90 minutes).
Ongoing sessions: Individuals - £140 (50 minutes). couples: £250 - (90 minutes)
This is longer-term, depth-oriented work, not a brief intervention.
When I work
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