About me
About My Practice
If you feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsatisfied with how you are experiencing the world, you don't have to navigate it alone. Life is complicated, but finding the right support shouldn't be.
With 25 years of experience, I specialise in building life-changing relationships with my clients. I bring my real, authentic self into the therapy room. While real connection can sometimes feel vulnerable, it is exactly what makes therapy work. I provide a deeply committed, down-to-earth space—often balanced with a touch of Kiwi humour—to help you safely explore what is holding you back.
How I Work: Long-Term Therapy for Complex Challenges
Because true, lasting change takes time, I primarily work long-term and open-ended. My clients often come to me navigating deep-seated complexities that stem from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and relational trauma—including childhood abuse, sudden bereavements, or growing up with narcissistic parents.
These early environments leave profound ramifications in adult life. Together, we work to understand how these experiences manifest today, such as:
- Anxiety & avoidance styles that disrupt your adult relationships.
- Perfectionism, social anxiety, and deeply ingrained self-limiting beliefs
- Coping strategies that no longer serve you to face new challenges
The Mind-Body Connection & Your Whole Self
I hold a deeply validating, non-pathologising view of mental health. Emotional distress is rarely a flaw within you; it is very often an appropriate, intelligent human response to real-life stresses, systemic inequalities, and trauma.
As a holistic Gestalt therapist, I pay close attention to how your experiences live in your body. I work with you to facilitate a deeper self-attunement to the vital interconnections between your mind, body, felt sense, and emotional experience. Attending to this connection builds your capacity to understand exactly how you navigate being in the world. Together, we will work on:
- Identifying your personal boundaries and safely honouring them.
- Identifying your true needs and wants in relationships and life.
- Uncovering the patterns of self-interruption that quietly impede this self-awareness - manifesting as mental health symptoms.
My door is open to anyone ready for deep, meaningful change, I also have extensive experience supporting:
- Neurodiverse individuals navigating a neurotypical world.
LGBTQIA+ (Queer) and gender-questioning individuals. - Clients exploring identity across different cultures.
- Experience of disability, including living with visual impairment
Fees & Location
I offer dedicated, high-quality face-to-face therapy from a premium, private space in Central-East London. My fees reflect both my extensive 25-year clinical expertise and my commitment to providing a consistent, confidential, and premium in-person environment for your therapeutic journey.
Training, qualifications & experience
- PG. Dip. Humanistic Counselling
- PG. Dip Gestalt Psychotherapy
- PG. Dip Integrative Supervision
- M.A.
- DPsych Candidate (Metanoia) - research on specialist university mental health mentoring
I appreciate these qualifications may not mean much to some people. But it's important to me you know professional standards, my ongoing learning and ethical practice are invaluable to my work.
I mentored and supported students with their mental health, neurodiversity, disability and long term health conditions while at university (9 years); I was a counsellor and manager for different London services for 14 years: young people (experiencing every issue imaginable), substance use/alcohol, LGBTQIA+ and adults with visual impairment. I've been in private practice for 17 years in central London - so with diverse client issues and personal backgrounds. Relationships, mental health, existential angst, identity, lack of meaning and purpose...and all the familiar 'issues' these generate (anxiety, depression, suicidality etc). And the impact of trauma and adverse childhood experiences (abuse, neglect & significant loss events).
If you're not sure if I am the right therapist for the concerns impacting you, simply email me and ask. That costs nothing and you've taken a step forward.
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
- Disability, including visual impairment
- Relationship issues
- Issues pertaining to sexuality, orientation and gender
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
My standard therapy fee is £85 for a 50 minute session. I also offer some concessions, particularly for day time or online therapy appointments.
My supervision fee for organisations is £80.00 and £75.00 for individuals.
When I work
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Tuesdays, 10-8pm -
Thursdays, 10-8pm -
Fridays, 10am-7pm - I have daytime availability
