About me
Come and talk. What’s going on for you? What’s working and what might be getting in the way? We’ll look at how you come to be where you are in life and how you live now. Our conversations will be reflective yet always with an eye to options and possibilities.
I work with individuals and couples. I like conversations about life. I’m good at generating ideas for responding to all sorts of life- and work-related situations. I pay attention. I am warm, alert, attentive, chatty, quiet, responsive, focused on living within the constraints that we all have but without those that we no longer need or were never ours in the first place. I’m interested in you, in what you want, need, feel, fear and imagine. I can’t fix you. You don’t need fixing. But if want to join in with me and with this process, I can offer you the time, attention, ideas, techniques, interest and care that might help you to help yourself feel greater agency in your life.
I have over 30 years’ experience of working with individuals and groups in the legal and commercial world as a coach, mediator and trainer. I have a good understanding of the pressures and challenges that many of us experience in those sorts of contexts. I am trained and experienced in existential, integrative, humanistic, psychodynamic, somatic, neural plasticity and hypno therapies. That’s some of what I bring when we work together.
Psychotherapy and coaching sit at either end of a spectrum. Either approach enables you to address the issues that excite, challenge, concern or inhibit you. People who work with me may select a preferred approach, knowing that they can move back and forth along the spectrum as our work progresses, according to their needs. The confidentiality, regularity and routine of our meetings provide for you to think deeply about whatever emerges, to see more clearly and to choose what next.
With couples, I take a mediation approach and aim to keep a focus on adjustments that can be made within the relationship.
I see people either online or in central London, whichever is more convenient or preferred.
Please contact me to arrange an initial meeting so that we can explore how we might work together.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am experienced in working with people who seek to address:
• Anger
• Bullying
• Childhood sexual abuse
• Conflict
• Control
• Depression
• Difficulties in relationships
• Difficulties with eating
• Inertia
• Performance anxiety
• Rape
• Recklessness
• Self-confidence
• Self-harm
• Self-sabotage
• Stress
Training and Qualifications
UKCP Registered
BACP Registered
Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy, Regent’s University, London
Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent’s University, London
Clinical experience in both private practice and within the NHS.
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Fees
£100.00 - £190.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I operate a "Green Bottle" sliding scale fee structure. My fees are set at a level that allows me to continue to offer a number of low- and no-fee spaces. The highest fee is for you if you have a comfortable level of disposable income, the lowest fee is for you if your disposable income is tighter. Please choose to pay the fee that you can afford. Thank you.
Central London:
Individuals: £120, £140 or £170 per 50 minute session
Couples: £140, £170 or £190 per hour
Online:
Individuals: £100, £125 or £150 per 50 minute session
Couples: £120, £150 or £180 per hour
When I work
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Central London and Zoom: Tuesday - Thursday
