About me
Welcome, I hope my profile gives you an insight into whether we could be well suited to working together. You might be considering therapy because of feeling stuck due to problems in relationships, feelings of anxiety or depression, or struggling to process something traumatic that has happened, either recently or in the past. Perhaps you are struggling to find meaning in your life, or external events in the world or within your family are causing you to question your sense of safety or belonging.
As a humanistic therapist, I draw on Gestalt and Existential approaches to psychotherapy, which emphasise how your experience of the world is subjective and unique to you, but also takes place with others in relationships and through your body. I believe that our first experiences of relationships, usually in our family, with a guardian or caretaker, can influence what we come to expect from ourselves, others and the world as adults. Through the relationship we build as client and therapist, we can notice the particular narratives you may have adopted to make sense of these experiences and how they might be impacting on your ability to fulfil what you want for yourself today.
Since we experience the world and are experienced by others through our bodies, I pay attention to my own embodied experience in the session and may share this with you, or ask about how you are feeling. Sometimes our felt sense can give us different information to things we have thought about, unlocking new insights or joining up the dots in an unexpected way. By growing your understanding of what you are feeling and experiencing, and how you respond, opportunities may open up to experiment with doing things differently. Often clients say that at this point, changes start to take place in other areas of their lives too.
Training, qualifications & experience
Prior to becoming a therapist I worked for five years in domestic and sexual violence support services. Seeing that many service users were unable to rebuild their lives after abuse with only practical support, I became interested in how our understanding of ourselves and relationships has a part to play in the path to healing from trauma. I bring specialist insights into the dynamics of power and control in relationships into my work as a therapist, and an awareness of the intersection between abuse and race, class, gender, immigration status, disability and other factors.
I use an anti-oppressive framework in my practice, which means I believe that structural inequalities in the world outside of the therapy room affect who and how we are inside of it, and I invite attention to this in our work. I am interested in working with issues related to race, culture and spirituality and religion. In the past I have delivered training on Islamophobia to therapists as part of a collaboration between the Inclusive Mosque initiative and the Radical Therapist Network (RTN), and I was a co-facilitator for RTN's Community Support Circles for people of the global majority.
I also volunteered as a counsellor for two years at MindOut, an LGBTQ+ mental health charity based in Brighton. As a queer person of colour, I supported many LGBTQ+ people, including those who specifically preferred to see a QTPOC counsellor. I am interested in working with gender, sexual and relationship diversity; I have worked with many clients who are polyamorous or in non-monogamous relationships, or who want to explore issues around sex, sexuality and kink, as well as trans and gender-questioning clients who want to discuss experiences of gender including transition.
I was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma with distinction in Counselling and Psychotherapy from The University of Brighton and a Foundation Certificate in Humanistic Counselling Skills from the Metanoia Institute, London. I am a registered member of the BACP. Outside of my work as a therapist, I have an academic background in literature and languages, and work part-time in non-fiction publishing on history and politics.
Member organisations
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Concession spaces are available, please do email me for details.
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I see clients in person in London, N1 and I also offer online therapy via Microsoft Teams.
