About me
Life's vicissitudes affect us all, whether it is in the form of uncertainty, suffering, loss, puzzling dilemmas or complex relationships. It is human to respond with hurt, shame or anxiety and by feeling misunderstood, lost, stuck, angry or depressed. My passion is to assist you with these inevitable life challenges in a more meaningful and constructive manner.
I provide a safe, engaging and supportive space for you to explore any issue that is troubling you. Psychotherapy can help you transform and reinvent yourself, connect and discover yourself, understand and accept yourself.
How do I work?
My approach offers a stimulating space for you to create a more meaningful life and explore new ways of approaching your relationships with yourself, others, and the world. It begins by learning who and how you are, and then collaboratively and at your pace we can shape ways in which you can grow, heal, and evolve.
My work is informed by existential philosophy and psychotherapy, phenomenology, critical thinking (Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, post-colonialism), artistic movements (surrealism, symbolism, dadaism), and the inspiration they provide for understanding everyday life struggles. Furthermore, I have both clinical practice and lived experience of queerness, neurodiversity and immigration.
As an accredited member of UKCP, I adhere to and uphold their ethical and practical guidelines. All my work is professionally supervised, and I hold full professional indemnity insurance.
Area of expertise
I offer psychotherapy for a wide range of life issues including anxiety, depression, loss and bereavement, relationship and family issues, loneliness and low self-esteem.
My research on crossdressing delves into issues such as power, history, sexuality, gender, identity and their connection with existential themes such as being, inauthenticity, lack of freedom and meaning. This is also mirrored within my private practice, where I usually work with people at the intersection between gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, social class, faith and disability and the social, personal and political context my clients find themselves in.
I welcome working with diversity and difference in whatever shape or form it comes.
Get in touch if you would like to organise an introductory session.
Training, qualifications & experience
Education
- Diploma in Supervision - in progress.
- Doctorate in Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling;
- BA in Psychology;
- BSc in Economics and Marketing.
Experience
For the last couple of years, I have enjoyed working as a psychotherapist across a variety of settings including the NHS, the voluntary sector and in private practice, providing both short-term and long-term therapy. I have worked with depression and anxiety as part of Talking Therapies in the NHS; with bereavement and loss in London, with LGBTQ+ related issues as part of Support U in Reading, and as a general counsellor for young people at No5.
During this time, I have been fortunate to work with a diversity of clients (including asylum seekers, refugees, students and LGBTQIA+/ GSRD clients) presenting a wide range of issues and difficulties.
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.
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.
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
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The first session is free to get to know each other and see how and if we can work together to improve your well-being.
