About me
About me
I am a qualified intensive dynamic psychotherapist based in Kingsclere, working in person with adults in Newbury, Tadley and Basingstoke, as well as online across the UK. I work compassionately, honestly and with steadiness, helping you make meaningful and lasting changes in how you experience yourself and your relationships.
Many of the people I work with appear to be managing well in daily life, but internally feel stuck, anxious, overwhelmed, or emotionally disconnected. You may notice patterns that repeat in relationships, work, or within yourself that do not seem to shift, even when you understand them intellectually.
You might feel you have tried to “figure things out” on your own, but still find yourself experiencing the same emotional responses, doubts, or difficulties.
Starting therapy can be a space to understand these patterns more clearly and begin to shift them in a more lasting way. My aim is to help you feel more connected to yourself, clearer about what you feel and need, and freer to respond differently in your life.
My Approach
I work relationally, paying attention to what is happening between us in the session as a way of understanding how you experience relationships outside of therapy. This often gives important clues about long-standing emotional patterns.
Rather than offering advice or surface-level strategies, we explore how these patterns are maintained and how they might begin to change.
We may also look at earlier experiences where emotions were difficult to process at the time, not to assign blame, but to understand how protective ways of coping may still be shaping your present experience.
How I work
I work using an accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AB-ISTDP), an attachment-based form of intensive dynamic therapy. This approach focuses on getting to the emotional roots of difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, and relationship challenges, rather than only managing symptoms.
Many difficulties in adult life are linked to patterns of avoiding or holding back feelings that were once overwhelming. AB-ISTDP works with these processes in the moment as they arise in therapy, helping to bring greater emotional clarity and more lasting change.
This is a focused and experiential way of working that aims to support meaningful psychological change over time.
As part of my training and clinical practice, sessions are sometimes video recorded. This is standard practice in ISTDP and supports reflective clinical work and supervision, helping ensure the quality of therapy. Recordings are stored securely, treated as strictly confidential, and are only ever used within professional supervision contexts.
Training, qualifications & experience
Middlesex University
BSc (Hons) in Counselling/psychotherapy
University of Greenwich
FdSc Integrative Counselling/psychotherapy (Clarkson)
Advanced training
Introduction to Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP-UK)
ISTDP-London Core training - three years ongoing.
The Berne Institute
Transactional Analysis 101
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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
My specialities are:
- anxiety and depression
- emotional neglect
- abuse
- relationship issues
- family dynamics
- trauma (PTSD & CPTSD)
- Grief and loss
Therapies offered
Photos & videos
Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Fees
Weekly sessions - £80 per session (60 minutes)
Trainee counsellors - £50 per session (60 minutes)
I offer a 15 minute consultation to answer any questions you may have and to see if we are a good fit. Please email or call to arrange this.
Cancellations and missed sessions
I require a minimum of 48 hours to cancel a booked session, the full fee is payable if you cancel within this time. If you miss a session without cancelling , the full fee is due.
When I work
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Mon: 09:00–14:00
Tue: 09:00–14:00 (in-person), 17:00–19:30 (online only)
Wed: 09:00–19:30
Thu: 09:00–19:30
Further information
I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I work within their Ethical Framework
I am committed to ongoing personal and professional development and see a clinical supervisor regularly.
I work from my office in Kingsclere which is easily accessible from Newbury, Tadley & Basingstoke.
I offer face-to-face sessions, which can be long-term or short-term.
I am based in kingsclere (RG20) but am able to facilitate online sessions anywhere in the UK
I also offer online sessions throughout the UK.
Please feel free to reach out by phone or email.
I look forward to hearing from you.
