About me
Navigating challenging times can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to face them alone. In a safe, non-judgemental space, you can explore your thoughts and feelings, uncover inner strengths, and find resources to help you manage difficulties, ease everyday stress, and support your wellbeing. Therapy can be a place to untangle worries, make sense of past experiences, and feel more grounded and in control of your future.
Therapy Can Help You To:
- Deepen your understanding of yourself and your situation
- Ease anxiety, depression, stress, or overwhelm and develop new ways of coping
- Work through painful experiences, grief, or trauma and move toward healing
- Build self-esteem, resilience, and confidence in your own choices
Improve relationships, with yourself, partners, family, or colleagues - Navigate life transitions such as relocation, parenthood, separation, or career change
- Explore challenges connected with ADHD, including difficulties with focus, emotional regulation, and self-organisation
- Work with perfectionism and the constant pressure of feeling “never good enough”
- Reconnect with what feels meaningful and true to you
My Approach
I am an integrative counsellor and Gestalt psychotherapist, drawing on a range of approaches to adapt to your unique needs. I also incorporate humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, transactional, and trauma-informed approaches to best support your personal journey. At the heart of therapy lies the relationship we build, one based on trust, empathy, and genuine connection. My focus is always on what feels most supportive and helpful for you.
I work with a wide variety of themes, including:
- Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, stress, and overwhelm - Relationships
Attachment issues, partnership difficulties, separation or divorce, family disharmony - Loss and Trauma
Bereavement, grief, childhood trauma, and other painful experiences - Life Transitions
Relocation, parenthood, career change, adapting to new cultures - Identity and Meaning
Questions of self, belonging, and reconnecting with what feels true to you - ADHD
Supporting greater self-awareness, developing strategies, and addressing the emotional impact of living with ADHD - Perfectionism and Inner Criticism
Working with patterns of self-judgment, high pressure, and the sense of “never being enough”
Practical Details
I offer sessions in person in Twickenham, Richmond and Putney, as well as online, making therapy accessible wherever you are.
I provide therapy in English, Ukrainian, and Russian.
Your First Session
The first session is an opportunity to get to know each other and explore what has brought you to therapy. We will talk about your current situation and consider possible directions for our work together. This session is also a chance for you to get a feel for how we might work, ask questions, and begin reflecting on your thoughts, feelings, and priorities in a safe and supportive space.
Before booking our first session, you are welcome to book a 20-minute free video call. This gives you a chance to introduce yourself, ask any practical questions, and see whether my approach feels like a good fit for you.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling CPCAB BACP (RHACC)
- Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy (NAGTU)
- Advanced Diploma in Gestalt Therapy and Supervision (NAGTU)
- Clinical Approach in Gestalt Therapy (NAGTU)
- Couple and Family Therapy (NAGTU)
I regularly attend CPD training courses on a wide range of counselling-related topics. Recent examples include the conference “Family and Modern Challenges of Society”, “Compassionate Strategies for Healing from Childhood Trauma”, and the supervision-intensive training “Gestalt Field”.
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.
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.
The European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) was founded in 1985, with the aim of fostering a high professional standard for Gestalt therapy and encouraging research. Today over 1000 members (institutional and individual) from more than 20 European Nations are already part of the association. Ordinary Members must have either trained at an EAGT Accredited Training school or completed a training programme comprising at least 1450 hours. Members of this body must adhere to their Code of Ethics, and there is a complaints process to allow members of the public to bring concerns to the body's attention.
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.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Further information
- I offer sessions in-person (Twickenham or Richmond) and online by video
- Flexible appointments - daytime and evening
- Free introductory 20 min online meeting
