About me
I am a psychosynthesis-trained psychotherapist and counsellor, qualified at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). I work with individuals and couples, offering both short- and long-term therapy across a wide range of presenting difficulties.
My clinical work is shaped by over twenty years of living between cultures — having grown up in mainland China and made my home in the United Kingdom. This lived experience informs a particular attunement to questions of identity, belonging, and the search for authentic selfhood. I am experienced in working with clients from diverse backgrounds and hold a sensitivity to the ways culture, history, and personal context bear upon an individual's inner life.
Individual Therapy
Many people come to therapy carrying a quiet sense of disconnection — from themselves, from others, or from a deeper sense of meaning and direction. This can coexist with outward achievement or a life that appears, on the surface, to be functioning well. Others arrive at a specific point of difficulty: acute anxiety, a bereavement, a crisis of identity, or the weight of longstanding patterns that feel increasingly hard to sustain.
My primary modality is psychosynthesis — a humanistic, transpersonal framework that understands psychological growth not as the elimination of symptoms, but as the progressive integration of the whole person: cognitive, emotional, somatic, and spiritual. I draw on this relationally and existentially, and integrate person-centred, psychodynamic, Jungian, and systemic perspectives as the clinical context requires.
I understand presenting difficulties as meaningful communications rather than obstacles to be managed. Throughout, I hold an attitude of respect for the unique nature of each client's experience, and attend to what symptoms may be expressing rather than seeking to resolve them prematurely. I aim to provide a space of genuine enquiry — one in which new ways of understanding and relating to experience may gradually become possible.
Couples Therapy
I work with couples navigating a range of relational difficulties — from persistent patterns of conflict and communication breakdown to more acute ruptures such as infidelity and loss of trust. I also support couples at significant life transitions, including the arrival of children, bereavement, or the renegotiation of roles and expectations over time. Where intimacy and sexual difficulties are part of the presenting picture, these too can be explored within the therapeutic space.
My approach is integrative and relationally grounded. Drawing on psychosynthesis, I understand each partner as a complex individual who brings their own history, unconscious patterns, and relational style into the shared space between them. Alongside this, I am informed by several established frameworks: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment theory shape my attention to the underlying emotional bonds driving cycles of conflict and withdrawal; the Developmental Model helps me understand where a couple sits within their relational arc; Discernment Counselling offers a structured, non-pressuring process for couples where one or both partners hold genuine ambivalence about the relationship's future; and Gottman Method research informs how I attend to patterns of interaction and the conditions that allow trust and stability to be rebuilt.
In practice, I focus on what is happening in the space between partners — what is communicated and what remains unspoken, where genuine contact occurs and where it breaks down. I aim to create conditions in which both partners feel heard, and in which the relationship itself is held as the focus of care.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified counsellor trained at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London. The aspiration of psychosynthesis is 'Serving Humanity in Transition'. Whether you are facing specific challenges, seeking personal growth, or simply exploring your inner world, together we can embark on a therapeutic journey and work towards responding more deeply to the world around you, and creating a new warmth and vitality within you. I look forward to the privilege of joining you on your path to self-discovery and healing.
Psychosynthesis is a 'Psychology of Hope' that works holistically, nurturing synergy between all parts of your personality, enhance introspection, build ego strength and foster resilience. Instead of a pathologising psychology, psychosynthesis is kind and empathic before it is probing and analytical. Keenly aware that symptom is a message to be understood rather than an obstacle to be removed, I hold an attitude of respect and a committed interest for the being of the client, the unique and mysterious nature of the other. I employ the appropriate way of working depending on what brings you to therapy, your struggles, your hopes and your aspirations.
What's next?
I offer a free 20–30 minute introductory consultation by phone or video. This provides an opportunity to discuss what has brought you to therapy, to ask any initial questions, and to consider whether we might work well together. Should we agree to proceed, we will establish a therapeutic contract addressing confidentiality, boundaries, and the practical terms of our work.
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
