About me
I use psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy in a space that is safe, confidential, and empathic. We will work together to understand the core themes that you bring to help you deal with them better and progress in your life.
This process involves making links, gaining insights, and becoming aware of what is really going on in yourself. The next stage would be to process this material and help you contain it, even when it seems that things are not going to get better. By gaining more understanding and capacity to manage, more choices become possible. One starts gaining degrees of freedom and becomes more able to manage their life. It is a process that takes time and commitment.
In short-term counselling or supportive therapy, we try to focus on the particular issue(s) that you are struggling with and work on them within a limited number of sessions to explore what would help you move forward.
I provide supervision using the Seven-Eyed Model of supervision for therapists and non-therapists. It is a relational approach to supervision that explores the supervisee’s relationship to their client(s) and the supervisor, the internal process of the supervisee, the external context of their practice, and the wider environment.
I have a background in education and experience in business and nursing over many years. I subsequently trained in counselling and psychotherapy. To ensure best practice and develop my work, I attend regular supervision and additional training.
Locations available
- Willesden Green NW2
- Southwark SE1
- Online: Google Meet
Current availability:
- Monday morning, Wednesdays, Thursday evenings.
- Other availabilities can be discussed.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have worked in the NHS secondary care service, offering long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, and am currently working in the NHS Talking Therapies Service, offering short-term counselling in addition to private practice.
Relevant Studies
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Guild of Psychotherapists
- MA in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Certificate in supervision
- Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
- Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT)
Experience
- Private practice providing therapy and supervision
- Refugee and Asylum Seekers Service since 2019
- NHS Talking Therapies Service since 2015
- NHS in primary and secondary care settings, 2011-2015.
- Volunteer counsellor at Coventry Migrant and Refugee Centre 2014.
- Samaritans 2009.
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.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
£55.00 - £70.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Sessions are 50 minutes. Please contact me to discuss fee
A free initial 15-minute telephone consultation.
I offer concessions for low-income groups and key workers.
When I work
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