About me
Starting therapy, or even just thinking about it, can feel daunting, especially when you’re not quite sure what’s wrong or whether what you’re feeling is “enough” to bring to someone. If you’ve found your way here, something is probably pulling you towards wanting more: more ease, more clarity, more sense of yourself. I offer a space to explore that together.
I’m an integrative art psychotherapist (sometimes called an art therapist) working privately from practice rooms in Hackney, East London and Peckham, South East London. I work with adults and young adults- often people in their twenties, thirties and forties- navigating anxiety, trauma, shame, life transitions, and relationship difficulties. You don’t need any artistic experience or skill. I’ll guide you through the creative work, which is simply another way in, another language for things that are sometimes hard to put into words.
The arts have been central to my professional life for many years: through arts administration, an MA in Museum and Gallery Education, and time spent working in galleries across London including Tate, Whitechapel, Gasworks, and Iniva. That relationship with creativity shapes how I work. I believe in the intelligence of images and the body, alongside the more familiar work of talking things through.
Training, qualifications & experience
My Qualifications:
- MA Integrative Arts Psychotherapy (Merit) - UEL & IATE
- Post Graduate Diploma Integrative Arts Psychotherapy - IATE
- MA Museum and Gallery Education (Merit) - Institute of Education
Further Trainings:
- Supervision Training for Creative Arts Therapists - in progress ‘25-6
- Climate Cafe Facilitation Training - Climate Psychology Alliance
- Mentalisation Based Art Psychotherapy - International Centre for Arts Psychotherapies
- Certificate in Counselling Skills - Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education
My Registrations:
- HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council)
- BAAT (British Association of Art Therapists)
- UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy)
- CPA (Climate Psychology Alliance)
My Experience:
- Lecturer: Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE)
- Reflective Practice Lead: IATE
- Assessor: IATE
- Visiting Lecturer: Terapia
- Peer Reviewer: The International Journal of Art Therapy (IJAT)
- Training Associate in Counselling Skills: The Minster Centre.
- Psychotherapist: Central and North West London NHS (CNWL)
- Honorary Psychotherapist and Researcher: CNWL NHS
- Counsellor and Therapist: The Bede Centre
- Art Educator: Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, Gasworks Gallery, Iniva, October Gallery
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.
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.
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
Other areas I work with in particular include:
- Shame and self-worth: Shame can be one of the most isolating and painful emotions; a deep sense that something is fundamentally wrong with you, rather than something you’ve done. It often operates quietly beneath the surface, shaping how you feel about yourself and how you move through the world. I offer a safe and gentle space to explore shame and its roots, and to begin to loosen its hold.
- Emerging adulthood and identity: Your twenties and thirties can be both exciting and destabilising - a time of becoming, but also of uncertainty. Questions of identity, direction, belonging and self-worth can feel particularly acute during this period. There can be a lot to make sense of, and I offer a space to do that at your own pace.
- Family relationships: The families we grow up in shape us in profound ways. How we attach, how we feel about ourselves, how we relate to others. Sometimes that shaping is painful, and its effects follow us into adult life in ways that aren’t always easy to name. I work with the complexity of family relationships, including difficult, estranged, or ambivalent ones.
- Grief and loss: Grief is far wider than bereavement. It lives in the losses woven through a life: of identity, of possibility, of belonging, of the person you might have been. I think about grief in this broader, more human sense, and I offer space for whatever losses you are carrying, named or not yet named.
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
£80.00 per session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Initial consultation: £80 for 60 minutes
Ongoing sessions: £80 for 50 minutes
Limited concessions available- currently these places are all taken.
Further information
Taking the step of contacting a therapist can feel like the hardest part. I want to make that as easy as possible.
The first session is an hour together. It begins with a short, simple form to gather some background information, and then we move into conversation- a chance for you to share what’s bringing you to therapy at this point in your life, and for both of us to get a sense of whether we might work well together. There’s no pressure and no obligation, and you’re welcome to ask me anything about how I work.
Towards the end of the session I’ll usually introduce a short, gentle exercise using the arts- not to assess you, but simply to give you a felt sense of what the creative work involves and what it might offer. Many people find this the most surprising and valuable part of the first meeting.
If you’d like to get in touch, the best way is by email or phone. I aim to respond within 48 hours.
