About me
You may have a sense that something in your life or relationships isn't working, even if it's difficult to say exactly what. Together, we will think more deeply about your experience, looking beyond immediate difficulties to the patterns and histories that shape how you feel and relate. This can lead to a different understanding of yourself and the possibility of living and relating in ways that feel more real and less constrained.
How I Work
Psychodynamic psychotherapy works at depth. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or immediate problems, we try to understand what lies beneath them: the earlier experiences, relational patterns, and ways of being that have shaped how you feel and function now, often without your awareness.
The relationship between us is central to this work. What emerges between therapist and client, including difficulties, tensions, and moments of connection, becomes itself a source of understanding. This is one reason why consistency and regularity matter. Meeting weekly, or more regularly, in a stable and confidential setting, allows something to develop that brief or intermittent contact cannot.
My clinical background includes intensive work with complex trauma and personality disorders, both in private practice and in NHS secondary care. I am comfortable working with difficulties that other practitioners may find challenging, and with people who have not always found therapy straightforward or helpful.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Much of what drives our experience operates below the surface of conscious thought: how we feel about ourselves, how we relate to others, what we find difficult or seek out. Psychodynamic psychotherapy creates the conditions to begin exploring that level, to speak freely, to notice what repeats, and to understand the emotional charge behind patterns you may have struggled to shift.
This is not a quick fix, and I wouldn't describe it as one. But for people who sense that something deeper is at play, that their difficulties are not just about circumstances but about something more longstanding in how they experience themselves and others, it can be genuinely transformative work.
We will meet on a regular basis, once or twice a week for 50 minutes. This stable, confidential structure gives us the chance to connect with and understand what is happening at a deeper level.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a trained and qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor & Psychotherapist. I have experience working in private, public and third sectors dealing with a broad range of complex mental health and psychosocial issues. Alongside private practice I work as a Specialist Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in secondary mental health care with South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust with particular experience working with complex trauma and personality disorder. I have also worked with The Firefighters Charity as a Psychological Therapist in face-to-face therapy, remote therapy and developing and delivering wellbeing and psycho-educational workshops to groups. I am currently a doctoral student at University of Exeter, working towards a clinical doctorate.
I have experience working with counselling agencies in London:
- Croydon Counselling Foundation
- Wimbledon Guild
- Sutton Counselling
Qualifications:
- Cert. H.E. (Certificate of Higher Education) - Psychodynamic Counselling & Counselling Skills, Birkbeck, University of London
- MSc. (Master of Science) - Psychodynamic Counselling & Psychotherapy, Birkbeck, University of London
- Doctoral Student, Doctor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (DPPClinPrac.), University of Exeter, British Psychotherapy Foundation
Member Organisations:
- British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)
- British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
- Birkbeck Counselling Association (BCA)
- British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF)
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 British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). 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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
My clinical background includes extensive work with complex trauma and personality disorders, both in private practice and in NHS secondary care within a specialist NHS mental health trust (South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust). I am comfortable working with presentations that other practitioners may find challenging, and with people who have not always found therapy straightforward.
I have a particular interest in working with men. Men often come to therapy having spent a long time managing difficulties privately — finding it hard to speak about emotional experience, uncertain whether therapy is even for them. That hesitancy is something we can work with directly, and the psychodynamic approach, with its emphasis on understanding rather than prescribing, often suits men who are sceptical of more directive forms of help. I have worked extensively with men across a range of settings, including with The Firefighters Charity, an environment where stoicism and self-reliance are cultural norms, and where creating the conditions for genuine reflection requires particular sensitivity.
I also have significant experience working with organisational and occupational difficulties — the impact of workplace dynamics, professional identity, burnout, and the ways that work can become a site for older relational patterns to play out. Occupational cultures with high demands, strong group identities, or an expectation of toughness — including the emergency services — can make it especially hard to acknowledge when something is wrong. I am experienced in working with people navigating exactly that tension.
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Introductory Conversation: Free 10-minute call to answer any questions you might have. You can book an Intro Call above.
Initial Consultation: £120 (payable in advance). This lasts 90 minutes and is an opportunity for us to meet and go into some depth about the difficulties that bring you to therapy. We will decide together on how we might work.
Ongoing Psychotherapy: £80 per session. Sessions are 50 minutes and take place once or twice weekly.
Contact me to arrange an appointment.
When I work
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Further information
Based in South Godstone, my practice is discrete and easily accessible from Reigate, Oxted, Redhill, Caterham, East Grinstead and Surrey / Kent / Sussex borders. An easy walk from Godstone train station and on-street parking readily available.
