About me
I offer a calm, reflective space where you can explore what’s happening in your life, what feels difficult, and what you may want to change. My approach is existential and relational: I work alongside you to understand your themes, dilemmas, patterns, and emotional world, helping you make sense of your lived experience and move towards the adjustments or changes you’re seeking.
Clients come to me with many different experiences — depression, anxiety, stress, worry, grief, bereavement, relationship tension or breakdown, identity questions, confidence issues, burnout, health concerns, and periods of transition or uncertainty. Together we explore thoughts, feelings, family dynamics, relationships, identity, motivation, and the challenges that arise across the lifespan.
My role is not to diagnose or direct, but to help you understand yourself more deeply, find clarity, and develop ways of living that feel more grounded, meaningful, and manageable.
Training, qualifications & experience
I work in private practice, NHS talking therapies, and Employee Assistance Programmes, and bring a long career in counselling, coaching and global human resources (FCIPD) which gives me a deep understanding of people, work, identity, and the pressures of professional life. I am trauma‑informed and trained in bereavement, grief and loss.
I am a UKCP and UPCA accredited clinical existential psychotherapist and a Senior Accredited Registrant of the NCPS. My training includes:
Level 7 Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy (Existential Academy, London) – existential and humanistic approaches, CBT, gender and sexuality, and family systems.
MSc in Psychotherapy Studies (Middlesex University) – relational conflict, personal change, lifespan development, well‑being, health and illness, and cultural and ethical issues.
Training and areas of expertise:
Anxiety, depression, PSTD and CPTSD, bereavement, grief and loss, maladaptive defenses, self-abuse, addiction and dependency, dominance and submission, attachment and separation, family systems and dynamics, relationship tension, sex, breakdown and separation, feelings and emotions, gender, sexuality and identity, well-being, health, ill-being and illness, lifespan and aging, neuroscience and coaching techniques.
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.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. 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
Fees
£55.00 per session
Additional information
I offer a free 20‑minute consultation so we can meet, discuss what you’re looking for, and decide together whether we’d like to work in the style and approach I offer and then book the first 50-minute session.
50 minutes sessions are paid in advance by bank transfer. This supports your commitment to your emotional health and well‑being. Session frequency and duration are discussed collaboratively and as a guide:
6–8 sessions can help explore a specific issue.
30+ sessions support deeper, long‑term work around repeating or complex themes.
How sessions work:
Sessions take place via telephone or online, so you can meet from a private, comfortable space at home. You’ll need a quiet, uninterrupted environment.
If home isn’t suitable, I also offer walking therapy, combining movement, nature, and reflective conversation.
My approach in one sentence:
I help you explore who you are, what matters to you, and how you want to live — with depth, warmth, and reflective presence.
