About me
I am an experienced UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor, accredited in 2015 and in practice since 2009. I work with adults in central London and online, drawing on Jungian, psychoanalytic ("depth") approaches.
Depth approaches differ from shorter-term approaches. Rather than focusing on symptoms, we would be aiming at what lies beneath them: the early experiences, relational patterns and unconscious dynamics that shape how you live and feel. This might originate from one's own early life, of from our family's: patterns, wounds and unlived lives that pass silently across generations.
I work long-term, meeting weekly to begin with. Some people find, as the work develops, that the process calls for meeting more frequently. I see clients once, twice or three times per week depending on what the work calls for.
The people I work with are often those who have had therapy before but want to go deeper. They may be professionally successful but privately aware of gaps: in relationships, in intimacy, in a sense of meaning or aliveness. They are curious about themselves and ready to invest in something that takes time.
"We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become."
Training, qualifications & experience
I began working with clients in 2009 and was accredited by UKCP in 2015. I hold an MA in integrative and transpersonal psychotherapy (CCPE/University of Northampton) and a Diploma in Supervision. I also hold a Foundation in Group Analysis from the Institute of Group Analysis.
I trained at CCPE, where I subsequently worked for several years as a groupwork facilitator and staff supervisor, and continue to deliver training and workshops for qualified practitioners.
Since accreditation, I have completed further training in trauma, supervision, ecopsychology, group analysis and Jungian psychology, including regular attendance at Tavistock Together seminars.
I have worked in psychotherapeutic contexts in the NHS, in community organisations and in private practice.
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
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Depth work addresses underlying structure rather than surface symptoms, which means it has broad application. The areas I have particular experience with include:
- Early and pre-verbal experience — the foundational injuries that occur before language and memory, shaping personality structure itself. This layer is often present beneath many diagnostic labels: depression, anxiety, attachment difficulties, personality disorder, addiction and relational patterns that seem impossible to shift.
- Childhood experience and its lasting impact — including divorce, abuse and neglect, narcissistic parenting, abandonment, migration, boarding school and early loss
- Sexuality, gender and sexual difficulty, including the relationship between sex, intimacy and spirituality
- Grief and loss — including bereavement, grief for the unlived life and unmet developmental experiences
- Anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicidality, including complex and fragmented presentations and disorganised attachment
- Intergenerational, collective and ancestral trauma, including racial trauma and the legacy of colonial experience
- The underlying causes of addictive processes — including food, alcohol, substances, work, sex and digital dependency
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 - £160.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
The initial rate is £120 per session. In the first few sessions we can discuss the ongoing rate. This would be anywhere between £70 and £160 depending on your means and the frequency of sessions. Please flag if you would be wanting a fee less than £120 as spaces at reduced rate are limited.
