About me
I am a BACP Accredited Integrative therapist, drawing from Existential, Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches.
The stories of our lives are present in how we are in the world. In therapy, we can find our voice, make those stories heard, and perhaps discover new ways of telling them.
I bring my natural curiosity to the work, as well as care and challenge. There is room for humour and wonder too.
I work with adults, with a particular focus on neurodivergence, including autism and ADHD. This includes people exploring or making sense of neurodivergence later in life. I have specific training in neuroaffirmative therapeutic practice.
Therapy can offer a calm centre in a world that can feel full of pressure to adapt or fit in. It can be a place to understand what actually works for you, where you can come as you are without an expectation to mask or perform.
I also see parents of neurodivergent children. In therapy, we can attend to your own experience as a parent, alongside the work of understanding and supporting your child.
I have experience working with men around sexuality, including questions of sexual identity, desire and sexual behaviour, and with those coming to a new understanding of their sexuality later in life.
Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent ten years working in the music industry, first as a touring musician and then within a record label. That experience informs my work with people across the creative industries, around creative blocks and the challenges of working as an artist.
Music has always been an important means of expression for me, and I maintain a belief in its extraordinary powers of communication and catharsis. When I began my own therapy, I discovered that it too had those powers, but also the possibility of making meaning through dialogue with another person.
Questions of meaning and purpose run through much of my work: how we have come to live as we do, what matters to us, and what we might be able to change.
Couples therapy
Therapy can be a neutral and protected space for couples to confront their challenges together.
The aim of couples therapy is to allow you to communicate more effectively and meaningfully with each other, so that you might better hear and be heard by your partner.
Issues that might bring a couple to therapy include infidelity, loss of sex drive, loss of intimacy, navigating significant life changes, parenting, illness, sexuality and gender questions, substance abuse, pornography/sex addiction, navigating consensual non-monogamy and, above all, communication issues.
Couples therapy can take place weekly or fortnightly. Please reach out for information on how couples therapy works in practice, and how it might be able to help with issues arising in your relationship.
Training, qualifications & experience
BACP Accredited Psychotherapist.
MA Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent's University London (Distinction).
Vice-Chancellor's Commendation, Regent's University London.
PGDip Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London.
PGCert Psychotherapy & Counselling, Regent’s University London.
Couples therapy training, accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists.
I have experience working with people in crisis, short-term solution focused counselling and long-term exploratory psychotherapy. This experience has come from my work with the NHS, other mental health providers and the Samaritans.
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.
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
Creative blocks and reaching creative potential.
Boarding school experience.
Climate issues and eco-anxiety.
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
£75 a session for individuals.
£95 a session for couples.
I hold a number of reduced-fee spaces for those on low income, please ask for details.
When I work
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