About me
I offer an active, engaged form of psychotherapy for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and live with greater honesty and freedom.
I work particularly well with creative clients, those with rich inner lives, and people whose minds move quickly or non-linearly. I am particularly interested in the parts of people that have not fitted comfortably with what others expected them to be.
You may be coming to therapy because of trauma, anxiety, anger or ADHD, or because of something harder to name: feeling different, adapting too much to others, hiding parts of yourself, or wondering whether the life you are living really feels like your own.
My work is conversational and collaborative. I will ask questions, offer thoughts, notice patterns and occasionally challenge you. I also want you to feel able to tell me when I have misunderstood something and to bring your own perspective into the work.
My approach is integrative, with strong existential, psychodynamic, Jungian, transpersonal and somatic influences. Dreams, imagery, bodily sensations, creativity and spiritual or uncanny experiences can all have a place in therapy if they matter to you. I take these experiences seriously without imposing a belief system or fixed interpretation on them.
I pay close attention to what happens in the body and in the relationship between us. Often, change involves not only insight but noticing patterns of tension, defence and withdrawal as they happen, and discovering that they can let go.
Honesty, curiosity and humour are important parts of how I work.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
I trained in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE) in London.
My training is integrative and draws on existential, psychodynamic, Jungian, humanistic, transpersonal and somatic approaches. I continue to develop my practice through ongoing clinical supervision and professional development.
I work with adults in both short-term and longer-term psychotherapy, in person in Fitzrovia and online.
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
Some clients come with a clearly defined problem; others use therapy to explore their relationships, creativity, identity or direction in life more deeply.
I have a longstanding involvement in writing and the creative arts. With writers and other creative people, therapy sometimes develops naturally into discussion of the work itself, particularly where creative material and the person's inner life overlap.
Dreamwork, imagery, meditation and creative visualisation can be incorporated where they are useful. I am also comfortable exploring spiritual, symbolic or unusual experiences without assuming that they have one correct meaning.
The first session is an opportunity for both of us to see whether we work well together. A good therapeutic match matters to me, and I would rather establish that honestly than persuade someone to continue.
Sessions are 50 minutes. My standard fee is £80.
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I can offer some concessionary rates for those facing genuine financial hardship.
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