About me
I work with individuals and with couples.
I am a UKCP-accredited Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice working with individuals. I am also an advanced level couples psychotherapy trainee at Tavistock Relationships.
Individual Psychotherapy
The weekly sessions provide a regular time for you to begin to make connections between the past and the present, to help you see how some of the things that you feel, do and say are not driven by your conscious thoughts and feelings, rather by unconscious feelings. It can help you to understand the parts of you that sabotage your best efforts. If you have a better understanding of these connections, you will gain more control over them and, most importantly, be reminded on a fundamental level that you have choices.
How you feel day-to-day, your mental state, the patterns of your behaviour, your actions and the decisions you take, are all connected to your past experiences going back to your childhood. They determine the person you are today. You may be tired of the same patterns in your life and relationships, coming up time and again and feel that you need to seek professional help with these issues.
I set up my practice to provide a resource for people who feel they need help with the mental challenges they are facing - empowering them to gain a better understanding of their relationships, themselves and their lives.
Your first meeting is treated as a space to think, reflect and talk about your reasons for coming to therapy and for me to listen. The session will give you the opportunity to ask questions and explore the process.
Format: Weekly 50-minute sessions, in-person or online.
Fee: £85 per session. Initial consultation: £85
Couples & Relationship Psychotherapy
In addition to my individual practice, I offer specialist, psychodynamically informed couples therapy. I am currently in the final stages of the advanced standing couple psychodynamic psychotherapy training at Tavistock Relationships (the UK's leading institution for relationship therapy).
Couples often come to therapy after months, sometimes years, of having the same difficult conversations. They may know the pattern well: one pushes for an answer, the other pulls away; one feels criticised, the feels ignored; both leave the conversation feeling misunderstood.
I work psychodynamically, which means I am interested in what is happening underneath the argument as well as in the argument itself. We pay attention to the detail of what happens between you in the room; who speaks first, when someone goes quiet, what feels impossible to say directly, and how quickly an ordinary disagreement becomes something much larger.
The point is not to decide who is right, or to teach you a better way to argue. The work is to understand why the same positions keep getting taken up. Often a couple's present difficulty carries older expectations about closeness, dependence, anger, disappointment, or being left out. When those expectations are not understood, they tend to get acted out between partners.
Format: Weekly 50-minute sessions held at the same time (in person only, with both partners in the room).
Fee: £105 per session. Initial consultation: £120 (the consultation is 60 minutes, both partners required, paid upfront).
My in-person practice for couples operates from quiet, professional consulting rooms located in central Tunbridge Wells, easily accessible from the High Street and local transport hubs.
I see individuals both in Cranbrook and in Tunbridge Wells and also online.
To discuss your requirements or to arrange an initial consultation session, please email me directly.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a UKCP accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist with 20+ years experience working with individuals in psychotherapy. I trained with The Arbours Training Programme in London. During the training and in my private practice, I have worked with patients suffering from anxiety, trauma, depression, relationships difficulties and bereavement.
I am in the final stages of the Tavistock Relationships Psychodynamic Couples Therapy Training at Advanced Level.
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.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 - £105.00
Additional information
For couples, the initial consultation fee is £120 as this is a 60 minute session. The regular weekly sessions will be for 50 minutes and the fee is £105.
For individuals the initial session and the regular weekly sessions are both £85.
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