About me
You probably know yourself pretty well. You’ve done the reading, maybe even the therapy. You understand where things come from. And yet something still hasn’t shifted.
I’m David, a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner based in London. I work with people who are stuck not because they lack insight, but because understanding something in our mind doesn’t always change how we feel.
Conversation is at the centre of our work, but not only conversation. Alongside talking about what’s happening in your life, I may gently invite you to notice what is arising in your body as we speak. This often brings a different kind of awareness, one that thinking alone can’t reach.
Somatic Experiencing is a gentle, body-based approach for when the nervous system is carrying prolonged stress, trauma, anxiety, shutdown, or dissociation. Rather than analysing everything mentally, we work with the body’s own capacity to release stored survival responses. Over time people often find themselves feeling lighter, calmer, and more able to be themselves again.
I also live with ADHD and some autistic traits, which gives me both lived and professional understanding of neurodivergence.
Before retraining as a therapist, I spent twenty years as a creative director in advertising. I know what high-performance environments can do to people: the pressure to perform, the identity wrapped up in output, and the slow accumulation of stress as we override our bodies.
I’m not a blank-screen therapist. I’m collaborative, genuinely curious, and enjoy playfulness and humour when it arises. The relationship between us is not incidental to the work. It is the work.
I see people dealing with anxiety, trauma (PTSD & CPTSD), burnout, depression, neurodivergence, and relationship difficulties. I’m particularly drawn to working with people who might seem fine, or even to be thriving, but feel far from it on the inside.
I offer a free initial conversation to see whether working together feels like a good fit.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Registered Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
- Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling (Masters level 7), Psychosynthesis Trust in London.
- Somatic Experiencing® SOS Internationale. Taught by Lael Keen.
- Training Assistant at the Psychosynthesis Trust, which runs high quality training programmes for counsellors and psychotherapists.
- Waking Dreams. A training in the therapeutic use of active imagination, by Allan Frater.
Core Modalities - Psychosynthesis - a transpersonal and integrative psychotherapeutic approach that recognises that meaning and purpose often emerge from our difficulties.
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Somatic Experiencing® - a body-based method for the safe integration of trauma and prolonged survival stress.
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
£110.00 - £120.00
Additional information
My fee is £110 per session for weekly psychotherapy and £120 for Somatic Experiencing.
I hold a small number of lower-cost places for those on lower incomes. Please mention this when you get in touch.
When I work
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