About me
Taking the first step into therapy takes courage! Whatever has brought you here: anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma, loss, or a sense that something in your life needs to change, finding the right therapist for you is crucial and can make all the difference to your healing pathway.
My aim is to make that initial step as comfortable and supportive as possible. I offer a free 20 minute phone consultation when we can discuss what is bringing you to therapy, your goals and whether we are suited to work together. This is also a chance for you to ask any specific questions you have.
My Approach
I am an integrative, trauma informed therapist, which means I use a range of therapeutic techniques from humanistic, contemporary, traditional psychoanalytic and existential traditions. My work focuses on a strong therapeutic relationship that builds sufficient trust and understanding to discover the interventions most helpful for you. This might involve exploration of the relationship between your experiences and challenges today and those in your past. This can help you gain insight, compassion and support to help overcome unhelpful patterns developed over time.
Areas of speciality
I work with adults, young people and the elderly facing anxiety and depression, ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, OCD, relationship and family issues, Women's health including menopause, infertility, perinatal issues. Narcissistic abuse, divorce, domestic abuse, addiction, eating disorders, obesity, bereavement, sexual abuse, sexuality, chronic illness, health anxiety, Men's health, forensic matters and more.
What to expect
I work mostly in the present moment, to encourage attunement to feelings about yourself, your relationships and life circumstances. This is facilitated by establishment of an open and honest therapeutic space, promoting capacity to go deeper into your experiences. The intention is to process and repair trauma by laying foundations for a therapeutic relationship of trust. Working together we will uncover more fulfilling ways of living, alleviating aloneness and overwhelm in facing your problems. I might also work in an embodied way with the unconscious, for example using dreams, bodily responses, or use mindfulness to support grounding when facing challenging material.
Your first session
If you decide to work with me, we will agree on a weekly time slot and date when we will meet for your first session. During our first meeting we will carry out an informal assessment when we will discuss what is bringing you to therapy. This is also a great opportunity to discover whether we are a good fit to work together. We might also agree upon a treatment plan or approach that will best support your journey towards better mental health.
Practical information
I am currently working primarily face-to-face, providing weekly, 50 minute sessions a short distance from High Barnet underground station. I offer remote long-term (or shorter-term) work, weekly online using Zoom or by telephone, depending on your circumstances. I am also able to offer blended long-term work which involves a negotiated mix of face-to-face and online or telephone, according to your specific needs, subject to my availability.
Couples work usually takes place on evenings or weekends, in person or online. Sessions are 90 minutes (can be p to 2 hours for the initial session).
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a BACP registered therapist with years of experience working with depression, anxiety, Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, OCD, relationship or family problems, divorce, domestic abuse, addiction, sexual trauma, eating disorders, Women's health including: menopause, infertility, perinatal issues. Chronic illness, health anxiety, disability, bereavement, Men's health, forensic matters and more.
I generally work long-term with clients, being for more than a year, although I also have experience working shorter-term, with interventions of 8-12 weeks. I have extensive experience working within NHS talking therapies. I have postgraduate qualifications in Psychotherapy at Regents University and Integrative Counselling at the Minster Centre. Before this I worked for 12 years as a Yoga therapist, working with health conditions, including mental illness. My initial background is in Public Law and mediation. I draw from this knowledge and experience to enhance my work with couples and to support individual clients build healthier relationships by developing the necessary awareness and skills to be able to effectively advocate for themselves in a way that honours their personal experiences, values and beliefs.
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
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 experience working as a yoga therapist for over 12 years allows me to draw from a range of embodied techniques such as breath awareness, mindfulness and grounding to support emotional regulation, both in the therapy room and between sessions. My background in Law and mediation supports my work with couples, as well as that with my individual clients, in particular those facing relationship, legal and forensic challenges.
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
My fee is £80 per 50 minute session (face-to-face or online) subject to yearly review.
Couples sessions are £120 per 1 hour and 30 minute session. The initial session may run up to 2 hours depending upon the issues at hand.
When I work
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Couples work generally takes place during evenings or weekends. If you have any individual/special needs please raise these in your free initial telephone consultation, or via email enquiry.
Further information
My initial background is in Law, specialising in dispute resolution. I also practiced as a yoga therapist for over 12 years working with health conditions, including mental illness. My transition over to psychotherapy has integrated some of my experience in these areas. The result has been to cultivate a robust, diverse skill set for creating a safe, ethical and meaningful therapeutic space that cannot only provide support, but that sparks curiosity whilst simultaneously promoting self-advocacy and a sense of empowerment.
