About me
Two years ago, I survived a ruptured aortic aneurysm — the kind of event most people don't walk away from. I recovered using the same tools I'd already spent decades practising: breathwork, martial arts, yoga, cold water, and the slow, honest work of therapy. So when I say the body is central to mental health, it isn't a theory I read somewhere. It's how I'm still here.
I'm a BACP-registered integrative counsellor, ICF registered embodiment coach and clinical supervisor with over 15 years' experience, working from Hove East Sussex and Queen Anne Street (Harley Street area), London W1, and online.
Many of the people I see are professionals dealing with burnout, anxiety, stress or low mood — often people who've done talking therapy before and found it only went so far. That's usually because anxiety and burnout don't just live in your thinking; they live in your breath, sleep, shoulders and nervous system. So alongside talking therapy, I bring in breathwork, grounding and somatic awareness — only as far as it's useful to you. You don't need to be "into" any of it. We start with a conversation.
Whatever brings you here — trauma, relationships, a life that no longer fits — my role is to offer a safe, confidential space where you can make sense of things and move forward. Life can change in an instant. I know that firsthand, and I know rebuilding it is possible.
Training, qualifications & experience
My foundation training was a BACP-accredited Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling from the Centre for Personal & Professional Development, London. I chose an integrative training because I believe that no single model fits everyone — and that good therapy requires flexibility, creativity, and genuine attunement to the individual.
I have gained experience across a range of settings, including:
NHS Primary Care
YMCA — working therapeutically with young people in schools
The As You Are Centre, Southwick — a specialist counselling agency
Private practice — running a busy caseload between London W1, Seaford, Hove, and online.
My continuing professional development includes specialist training in:
Embodied Facilitation & Integration
Trauma and Dissociation (Living With Dissociation; Partners of Dissociative Survivors)
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Time-Limited and Solution-Focused Therapy
Neuroscience and the Therapeutic Relationship
Neurodiversity — clinical applications
Working with Sandtray
Relational-Based Clinical Supervision
I'm also fully DBS checked and approved
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
Alongside the core areas listed above, I bring particular experience in the following:
Embodiment coaching — helping you reconnect with your body as a resource for insight, regulation, and change
Self-awareness and personal development — supporting clients in recognising their strengths, patterns, and potential
Survivors of childhood abuse — including complex trauma and dissociative presentations
Neurodiversity — ADHD, autism spectrum, and Asperger's, including late-diagnosis adjustment
Bipolar disorder — supportive therapeutic work alongside psychiatric care
Children and young people — therapeutic work in school and organisational settings
Career and life coaching — for people navigating transitions, purpose, or professional fulfilment
Brief, goal-focused work — for clients who want structured, time-limited support with a specific issue
Whatever brings you here, I will meet you with curiosity, care, and a genuine commitment to helping you find your way through.
Therapies offered
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Fees
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
London Harley Street practice from £150 per one hour session
£60-80 per one hour session in East/West Sussex
Lower cost sessions are available at certain times
Couples sessions are charged at £100 per meeting
Zoom online conference meetings from- £60
Lower cost sessions are available at certain times
When I work
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I work at my east Sussex practice and online on Monday, Thursday and Friday,
and I work in London W1 near Harley street on a Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Further information
I offer Four flexible ways of working, depending on your needs and circumstances:
Embodiment coaching
Alongside talking therapy, I offer embodiment coaching — using breath, movement and body awareness as tools for regulation, insight and change. This isn't an add-on for me: these are the practices (25+ years of martial arts, yoga, breathwork and cold water) that carried me through my own recovery from a ruptured aorta, and they're the same tools I teach clients for managing panic, stress and burnout.
Short-Term / Solution-Focused Work
Sometimes life presents a specific challenge that calls for a focused, practical response — a crossroads, a sudden change, or a situation where you need an external perspective to help you regain your footing. In these cases, a brief, structured intervention can be highly effective.
We would typically agree on a SMART-based goal and work together for around 6–12 sessions, using tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) alongside a relational approach. You will feel heard and understood, while also gaining practical strategies for moving forward.
Brief Psychotherapy & Counselling
For issues that need more than a single focused intervention, but where time or resources are a practical consideration, brief psychotherapy offers a middle ground. Rather than aiming to resolve everything completely, the goal is to process what is most pressing — to help you feel more able to cope, more clear, and less alone with what you are carrying.
We would usually agree on around twelve 50-minute sessions, reviewing progress as we go.
Open-Ended Integrative Therapy
For deeper or longer-standing difficulties — patterns that have been present for much of your life, complex relational histories, or trauma — open-ended therapy offers the time and space to go further.
This is integrative psychodynamic and humanistic work. Our early experiences with caregivers shape the way we engage with the world, and through building a relationship based on trust, consistency, and empathy, we can begin to explore how the past is influencing the present. We can uncover unconscious patterns and defences, process unresolved emotions, and gradually develop a more authentic relationship with yourself and others.
We begin with an agreed initial contract of 6–12 sessions, reviewing together as we progress.
