About me
Sometimes you know exactly what's wrong. Sometimes you simply know that something isn't right.
You may be struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, difficult relationships or experiences from childhood that continue to affect your life today.
Perhaps you've lost confidence, feel emotionally exhausted, or find yourself repeating patterns you don't fully understand.
My work is about helping you get to the heart of what's happening, understand why you feel as you do, and find a way forward.
I'm a trauma-informed investigative therapist with extensive experience working with adults and young people, including therapeutic work with children and teenagers in school settings.
My approach draws on a range of therapeutic methods, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), psychodynamic therapy, primal therapy and person-centred counselling. I believe therapy should respond to the individual rather than expect the individual to fit a particular method.
My experience includes supporting people with:
Anxiety, generalised anxiety, health anxiety, depression and stress
Trauma, PTSD, childhood trauma, childhood bullying and low self-confidence
Emotional and physical abuse, difficult family relationships and relationship breakdown. Bereavement, affairs, betrayal, jealousy and anger
Neurodiversity, including experience working with children and young people with ADHD and autism. Emotional difficulties affecting young people, including friendships, family issues, anxiety and self-esteem
I am trained in Primal Therapy and am an experienced Shaman covering spirituality, identity and questions about meaning and purpose.
I have a particular interest in how childhood experiences can shape our adult relationships, emotional responses and sense of identity.
Sometimes the difficulty we are experiencing today has roots much further back. Understanding those connections can help us recognise patterns, challenge old beliefs and begin to make different choices.
Alongside my therapeutic work, I am a Sunday Times bestselling author who has written extensively about childhood trauma and its lasting psychological effects. I have appeared on GMTV regarding bullying in schools and am committed to setting u a local CIC where young people can come for free to access help for ADHD and other issues around identity and trouble in school.
My earlier career in investigative journalism with the Daily Mail and Sunday Times also informs my approach to therapy. I have spent much of my professional life listening carefully, asking questions and looking beneath the surface to understand the wider picture.
I bring that same curiosity and attention to my therapeutic work.
I specialise in telephone therapy.
For many people, talking without sitting face-to-face with a therapist makes it easier to express difficult feelings and explore personal experiences.
Telephone sessions allow you to speak from your own surroundings without travelling to an appointment.
I offer both focused, short-term therapy and longer-term work, depending on your individual needs.
Individual telephone sessions: £65
A free 15-minute introductory telephone conversation is available if you'd like to discuss what brings you to therapy and whether we might work well together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I studied for four years in London to become a psychotherapist, but my fascination with the human psyche began long before my formal training.
For over 30 years, I investigated depression, anxiety and the mysteries of psychological suffering, initially in search of answers to my own experiences.
My investigations took me around the world. I studied primal therapy in Los Angeles, travelled to India to explore shamanic practice, and investigated Buddhism, meditation and other approaches to healing.
Then I discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS), and the missing piece of the puzzle fell into place.
We are not just one personality. We are made up of different parts.
One part may be carrying depression, another anxiety. Another may be holding childhood trauma, shame, rejection or grief. And when these parts are hurting, they can drive our behaviour without us even realising it.
We reach for sugar, food, alcohol or drugs. We become addicted to relationships, chase people who don't love us, sabotage opportunities, or remain in situations that make us thoroughly miserable. We promise ourselves we'll stop, and then find ourselves doing it all over again.
Why?
Because beneath the behaviour is a part of us trying to escape, soothe or survive something painful.
IFS gives us a way to find those parts, understand what happened to them and begin the work of bringing them home.
My work is about retrieval. Finding the parts of ourselves that have been lost, silenced or abandoned, and restoring our relationship with them.
I believe wholeness is the answer to a fulfilling life. There is an old idea that a person who has attained wholeness could face even the guillotine without fear. That is the kind of inner freedom that interests me.
To become whole is to stop living at war with ourselves and begin living the life we came here to live.
Alongside my private practice, I have worked therapeutically with adults, children and teenagers in school settings, including young people experiencing anxiety, trauma, ADHD, autism and difficulties with family relationships.
I am also a Sunday Times bestselling author who has written about childhood trauma and its lasting effects.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I am a highly experienced shamanic practitioner specialising in Soul Retrieval: the process of retrieving deeply lost, fragmented or exiled parts of ourselves and restoring them to the greater whole.
My practice includes facilitating encounters with the Higher Self, exploring phobias through the higher energetic field, shamanic journeying and energy healing.
I also bring clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and mediumistic abilities to my spiritual practice. These gifts, present in childhood and experienced more profoundly following a near-death experience (NDE), form an important part of my work.
Together with my formal psychotherapeutic training, these spiritual practices allow me to offer clients who seek it a deeper, multidimensional approach to personal healing, self-discovery and wholeness.
My work bridges psychotherapy and shamanic practice, bringing together the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the human experience.
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
Sessions are available by telephone, Zoom, or in person.
Individual therapy by telephone: £65.00
Individual Therapy .......in Person: £85.00
Couples Therapy via telephone....£75.00
Couples Therapy in Person............£120.00
Home visits and walking therapy in Kew Gardens are available by arrangement for an increased fee. I work with clients across London and internationally via telephone or Zoom.
Further information
I specialise in telephone therapy, and there is a very particular reason for this.
I want my clients to go within.
I encourage clients, where comfortable, to close their eyes, settle somewhere quiet and preferably lie down. You can be in your own home, on your own sofa, under your favourite blanket. There is no need to dress for an appointment, travel anywhere or spend the session looking at another person on a screen.
My approach is rooted in the traditional therapeutic couch. I am interested in what happens when we turn our attention away from the outside world and begin exploring the extraordinary landscape within.
I don't believe we always need to be looking at one another to do meaningful therapeutic work. Sometimes the absence of visual distractions allows us to listen more deeply.
And listening is at the very heart of what I do.
As you speak, I listen for the breaks in your story. The places where something happened, something changed, or something important was lost. Where did you stop feeling safe? Where did your confidence disappear? What part of you was left behind?
Together, we return to those places and begin discovering what is missing.
I bring an unusually deep and intuitive quality of listening to my work. It is a gift I value enormously, strengthened by decades of investigation, personal exploration and professional training.
My aim is not simply to discuss the difficulties in your life, but to help you discover the parts of yourself that may have become hidden beneath them.
I also have experience facilitating group therapy with children and teenagers in schools, where face-to-face interaction can be enormously valuable for developing confidence and communication. My individual practice, however, is deliberately different. It is designed for inward exploration.
Telephone therapy is my preferred way of working, although individual arrangements can be discussed where appropriate.
You don't have to perform, impress or even look at anybody. You only have to begin speaking. I'll be listening.
