About me
I work with emotional, relational, and identity-based difficulties, and key life experiences such as trauma, loss, conflict, abuse, absence, and lack.
Perhaps you find yourself caught up in the past, and struggling to move forwards in life. You might be grappling with overwhelming emotions or turbulent relationships. Maybe you're troubled by emptiness, or loneliness, or a general dissatisfaction with life. Alternatively, you may just feel that something isn’t quite right, but find it hard to put into words.
Psychological difficulties often show up as repeating patterns in how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. These patterns can be difficult to fully grasp, and can even feel outside of our conscious control. Moreover, where these patterns are associated with pain, we often find ways to ignore them —‘out of sight, out of mind.’ Sometimes, we bury difficult experiences so deeply that we lose sight of them altogether, even if we remain acutely aware of other struggles. These unresolved experiences then continue to affect us, and our patterns of relating to the world—and this usually happens outside of our conscious awareness.
I am an experienced HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist, offering Psychoanalytically-informed Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy offers an opportunity to move beyond immediate concerns and explore your difficulties on a deeper level. By meeting regularly, we can create a space where your inner experiences may gradually surface—allowing them to be more fully felt and brought into clearer awareness. Over a period of months or longer, you may begin to discover new insight, meaning, choice, and a greater sense of freedom in your life.
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Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a qualified and experienced Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist, with over 14 years of clinical experience. Alongside my private practice, I work within the NHS, where I hold a senior leadership role and provide supervision to other therapists. Before training as a clinician, I completed a PhD in Psychology.
My core training as a Clinical Psychologist has equipped me with a broad range of therapeutic approaches and techniques. In addition, I completed a two-year training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with the Portman & Tavistock NHS Trust. I am also a BPC Kite Marked practitioner of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) and Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT).
As a Clinical Psychologist, I am professionally registered with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), registrant number PYL31217. I am also on the roster of Kite Marked practitioners of DIT & MBT with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC), roster number 22940.
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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 HCPC are an independent, UK-wide health regulator. They set standards of professional training, performance and conduct for 16 professions.
They keep a register of health professionals who meet their standards, and they take action if registered health professionals fall below those standards. They were created by a piece of legislation called the Health Professions Order 2001.
Registration means that a health professional meets national standards for their professional training, performance and conduct.
Areas of counselling I deal with
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Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
Initial consultation fee (75 minutes) - £100
Therapy session fee (50 minutes) - £80
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Further information
I work with the full range of psychological difficulties, and trauma in the broadest sense. In addition, I am interested in working with identity-based issues, particularly where these relate to sexuality or gender. I also work with people who may be struggling in care-giving professions, such as NHS clinicians & local authority workers.
I recognise that we live in an unequal world where many are marginalised or othered. I welcome clients of all ethnicities, faiths, sexualities, genders, abilities, neurodivergences, and any other characteristic that may signify difference. I'm interested in how your experiences of difference may shape your life, your identity, your struggles & your experience of therapy. If this matters to you, I hope we'll be able to talk about it.
