About me
Coming to therapy takes courage. It is, at it's heart, an act of profound self-compassion - a decision to take you and the life that you have created so far seriously.
Something specific usually brings us here. It could be a relationship that keeps hitting the same wall, a loss we can't move through or a sense that we are living at a distance from ourselves or from the people we love most. It could be depression, intrusive thoughts, anxiety or that life may simply have delivered something that broke through our defences such as a bereavement, a betrayal, a diagnosis that changed everything.
Our early patterns of attachments and how we keep ourselves feeling safe in the world probably made sense at the time. But in adult life they have ways of finding us again and often get in the way of happiness, fulfilment and enriching relationships.
I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist working with individuals and couples in person in Clapham and in Central London and online nationally and internationally.
I provide a warm confidential space to explore your inner and outer world together with curiosity, honesty and without judgment. Working psychodynamically, means paying attention to the deeper layers of you and your internal world. What shaped you, what makes you act and think the way you do. And in couples' therapy the relationship itself becomes the focus as we begin to look at your dynamic and how this has taken the shape it has.
Before training clinically, I spent 20 years as a broadcast journalist and strategic communications advisor, travelling the world and learning to sit with and listen for what lies beneath the surface of people's lives.
I have a particular understanding of the pressures faced by those in high-profile or public-facing roles.
Training, qualifications & experience
I did my post graduate training at the internationally renowned Tavistock Relationships, earning a BACP-accredited clinical qualification in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. I am a member of the BACP and the Tavistock Relationships Association for Psychotherapists and Counsellors (TRAPC), and I adhere to their professional codes and ethical guidelines.
I am a visiting clinician at Tavistock Relationships in 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
Additional information
Individual therapy: £90 per session
Couple's therapy: £130 - £160 per session,
A limited number of concessionary places are available. Please enquire.
Further information
I have a special interest in the difficulties caused by certain attachment styles and how early experiences can shape the way that we relate to others throughout our lives. As Freud observed, what we cannot remember, we are likely to repeat. Therapy offers a space to begin to understand and to interrupt those patterns.
My practice is open to everyone. I have particular experience working with interracial couples and same-sex couples, and I welcome the full range of human relationships, identities, and experiences into the room. My interest is always in the particular person, or people in front of me.
