About me
Sometimes in our lives things feel “off” but we don’t really know why. I will help you reveal and understand confusing feelings like anxiety and low mood so that change can begin.
Too often it can feel like something we don’t understand or can’t control is preventing us from living the lives we truly want, that it is something inside us. I specialise in working with anxiety and low mood when these experiences feel confusing and outside of your control. I help my clients understand what’s happening beneath the surface and find ways to feel more grounded, compassionate towards themselves, and able to move forwards.
I mainly practise psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on bringing unconscious patterns and dynamics into conscious awareness. Throughout our lives we develop coping mechanisms and defences to protect the vulnerable parts of us, and, over time, these become second nature to the extent that we are not fully aware of them and their impact on our lives. Often our distress is caused because these protective mechanisms are now not serving us in the way we would like. Together, my clients and I work to bring these coping mechanisms into conscious awareness, so that the parts of you that haven’t been able to speak can begin to find a voice. This will involve exploring family and relationship dynamics developed in childhood because this is where we learn the “rules” that we internalise and then take for granted later in life.
In our 50 minute, weekly sessions we will explore whatever is on your mind, building up a picture of who you are and seeking to understand the wider connections. It is through exploring your mind with curiosity and care that we can begin to relieve your symptoms and move you towards how you would like to experience the world.
My work is informed by intersectional thinking, acknowledging how the messaging we have internalised from society can adversely affect our wellbeing. My work is affirmative of gender, sexuality and relationship diversity.
I am a fully qualified and experienced therapist and am a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists. I regularly undertake further professional development training.
The most important thing about finding a therapist is finding someone who you feel you might be able to begin opening up to, who you feel you could come to trust. If that sounds like something you would be interested in exploring please send me an email and we can set up an initial consultation. You can also read more about what therapy is like with me on my website.
I wish you all the best with beginning therapy.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy in the Community, The Manor House Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling (BACP and BPC accredited training course)
- Masters Degree in Philosophy, University of Bristol
- Undergraduate Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford
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).
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Fees
£100.00 per session
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Additional information
My standard fee is £100 per session. However, I do offer a number of reduced- fee spaces based on your individual circumstances. Please let me know if you have any questions about fees as I am happy to discuss.
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Pimlico - Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings. Battersea - Wednesday afternoons, evenings, and Thursday mornings. Online - Thursday afternoons, evenings, Friday.
