About me
Many people spend years keeping the peace.
Being the reliable one. The accommodating one. The person who copes, adapts, takes responsibility, avoids conflict, or puts other people's needs ahead of their own.
From the outside, life may look perfectly fine. Yet underneath there can be a growing sense of dissatisfaction, exhaustion or disconnection. You may struggle to know what you want anymore, find it difficult to speak up, or feel as though you've somehow drifted away from yourself.
Sometimes this happens gradually. Other times it arrives during a period of change — a bereavement, separation, career crossroads, burnout, menopause, children leaving home, caring responsibilities, retirement, or simply the feeling that the life you've built no longer fits in quite the same way.
Much of my work centres around helping people reconnect with themselves.
Not by becoming a completely different person, but by becoming more able to hear their own voice alongside the expectations, demands and assumptions they have carried for years.
I work relationally, with warmth, curiosity, humour and honesty. I am naturally engaged and interactive in sessions and believe that therapy works best when it feels like a genuine conversation rather than an expert sitting silently in the corner of the room.
Together we can explore the patterns that have shaped your life, understand where they came from, and consider what might need to change now. Sometimes that involves grief. Sometimes confidence. Sometimes work, relationships or identity. Often it is about developing a stronger sense of who you are and what matters to you.
Before becoming a therapist I spent over 15 years working in psychology teaching and research and I continue to draw on that understanding in my work. I am also trained in career coaching, which can be particularly helpful when questions about direction, purpose and change arise.
I work online and in-person in Hackney and Buckhurst Hill.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a qualified counsellor with a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Coaching from the University of East London. I also studied Career Coaching at Birkbeck College and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Career Coaching and Counselling.
I have a background as an academic psychologist and worked as a lecturer and researcher in universities for over 15 years. I have a PhD and a BSc degree in Psychology.
I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 - £85.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees are on a sliding scale for regular 50-minute sessions depending on your financial circumstances.
- Lower income £65
- Middle income £75
- Higher income £85
I trust clients to choose the rate that feels manageable and appropriate for their circumstances. I recognise that financial situations are shaped by many factors beyond salary alone.
A limited number of lower-cost spaces are available, but there may be a waiting list for these.
When I work
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Further information
I work with a wide variety of different psychological issues including anxiety, bereavement and loss, managing and adjusting to life transitions (e.g. motherhood, separation, menopause, retirement), low self-esteem and family issues.
