About me
I am a psychotherapist whose aim is to build trust, promote growth and inspire change using your attachments to caregivers, family, friends, culture, place of origin, colleagues etc. as a framework to understand your struggles. I have an integrative approach seeing a wide range of individuals of all ages (except those under 18); understanding issues such as anxiety, OCD, parental conflicts, sibling dynamics, friendship, romantic relationships, workplace attachments and dynamics, bullying, climate anxiety, eating disorders, cancer support including diagnosis, during and post-treatment, fertility, menopause and midlife, decision-making particularly at a big junction in life. These are just a few of the issues I have encountered in my varied career. I am also a supervisor, training supervisor, teacher, lecturer and training therapist. I offer therapy face-to-face in person at my practice or on the telephone and via Zoom.
I work on weekdays during the day and in the early evening Monday - Wednesday in my practice in Walthamstow and offer both short and long term therapy.
I trained at the Bowlby Centre as an attachment based psychoanalytic psychotherapist. I have twenty years experience working with others distress, anxiety, dilemmas and traumatic experiences through helping people notice, make sense of, gain perspective on and do something about their particular problem. I have also spent many years working as a clinical seminar leader on psychotherapy training courses in London and developing a training curricula for psychotherapy training courses. I m also a Training Therapist and Supervisor to trainees and those interested in an attachment framework. Prior to training as a psychotherapist I spent over ten years working in the FMCG industry identifying and applying consumer insight to brand strategy and communication.
Training, qualifications & experience
Qualifications and Training
Distinction in Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling, Birkbeck University. (2005)
UKCP-Accredited Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Training. (2006-2010)
Member of Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis College, UKCP. (2011). Working with adults from a wide variety of ages, backgrounds and diversity in a continually thriving private practice based in East London and online. I adopt an integrative, inclusive approach with an attachment-based framework at its heart, fully complying with the UKCP Code of Ethics and advocating for the Bowlby Centre values of diversity and inclusion.
Teacher, The Bowlby Centre (2012 - present) leading seminars such as Gender and Sexuality, Professional Development and Starting Out In Clinical Work. I help students in the early days of their clinical work, supporting them in the joys and jitters of sitting with clients for the first time.
Training Therapist, The Bowlby Centre, (2016) I work with trainees in therapy supporting them with the demands of the training course in the context of the wider life using an attachment framework as the basis for this.
Training Supervisor, The Bowlby Centre (2025). This involves supervising trainees in their early stages of clinical work advising, teaching and guiding them through the experiences of clinical work.
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 per session
When I work
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Further information
What can you expect when we first meet?
We will initially talk on the phone when I will take basic details about you. We will arrange a time and day for you to visit my practice for two 50-minute assessments one week apart. We will spend time discussing why you wish to be in therapy or counselling, your expectations of treatment, whether you have been in therapy before and a more general conversation about your life history. It is hoped from this will come a good understanding of your struggles and an early sense of whether we are right for each other. If this is the case then we will agree the timing of our sessions and take it from there. I work on a once-weekly basis as a minimum and see individuals twice or three times a week where necessary.
I also work online either exclusively or in hybrid between in person and online sessions to suit your requirements.
I offer both short term focussed therapy and long term open-ended therapy.
How to get here
I am very easy to reach on public transport. I live a short walk from Walthamstow Central and Walthamstow Queens Rd stations which offer fast, frequent links on the Underground, Overground and National Rail networks in addition to an excellent bus network in and out of Central London.
