About me
I am a BACP Senior Accredited psychotherapist working with adult individuals both online and at my central London practice.
The stories we tell ourselves about our lives define us. They can both empower and trap us. I offer a place to explore the narratives we live within - both those we create ourselves, and those which are created for us by others and the world.
As an existential-phenomenological practitioner, I work from your experience, exploring with you how you have come to be where you are, and how you might want to respond to it. We look at your values, your relationships, your broader world, and your inherited ideas and ways of being.
My practice is LGBTQ+ friendly, sex-positive and kink-aware. I am interested in supporting those with alternative lifestyles, as well as those experiencing sexual difficulties.
I hold a particular interest in working with bereavement and loss, and with birth trauma.
Please do contact me if you would like to talk through options, or if you have any questions, or visit my website to find out a little more.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a Senior Accredited Member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and a member of the Society for Existential Analysis.
I hold a Masters in Existential Psychotherapy with Distinction from Regent’s University, and a Certificate of Higher Education in Psychodynamic Counselling from Birkbeck University. My first degree was a BA in English with First Class Honours from Cambridge University.
I was a recipient of the 2023-2024 Hans Cohn Scholarship for those studying or carrying out research in the field of existential psychotherapy. I have clinical experience both within the NHS and within low cost community organisations. I adhere fully to the BACP ethical code, to which I am bound by membership.
As a graduate of Making Birth Better’s Birth Trauma Training Programme for healthcare professionals, I offer a therapeutic space for those who have experienced or continue to experience the effects of a traumatic pregnancy, birth, or postnatal period, whether you are the birthing person or somebody who was part of the birth. Please do get in touch if this is you.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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
£85.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
A first session, with no commitment on either side, is a great way for us to get a sense of each other and to explore how it would be to work together.
If we feel there’s a fit, and you would like to go ahead, we begin weekly sessions together. We can agree on a set number of sessions to begin with, or keep it open, depending on what you would prefer.
I can also offer a block of 6 or 12 sessions for clients who have suffered a bereavement, or for whom a historic bereavement still causes significant distress.
My private sessions take place in a comfortable room on Wimpole Street, Marylebone, W1, five minutes' walk from Oxford Circus tube.
All sessions whether in person or online are £85.
