About me
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist practicing in London W2. I offer a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space where you are welcome as you are. I believe that curiosity is an essential ingredient of good therapy and becomes possible within the empathy and support of a psychotherapeutic relationship. With curiosity it’s possible for us to enquire further into personal experience, deepening and developing relationships with self and others. Sometimes it’s in being listened to by someone else that we hear ourselves in a new and transformative way. The path opens to finding new and creative solutions for inner conflicts or voicing what we’ve never dared give voice to before.
My clients come for different reasons. Some may know what’s wrong and want to work out what to do about it. Others may wish to be accompanied through profound and painful experiences of loss that feel life changing and deeply challenging. Others may feel stuck, dissatisfied or purposeless in life but find themselves unsure why this is happening and how to recover their “spark”. Some simply a sense that there is more to life and want to develop themselves. Witnessing clients accepting their reality, recovering their energy and starting to grow again as patterns and ways of being begin to shift is just one way in which I hope to help my clients feel seen, heard and understood.
I have supported clients through bereavement, chronic illness, neurodiversity, anxiety, depression, family and relationship difficulties, becoming and being a parent, issues related to race, culture, ageing, gender and sexuality, OCD, addictions, workplace stress, and PTSD related to abuse or distinct life events.
I work with my clients to establish whether what they are bringing is best addressed through shorter-term solution focused therapy with an agreed end date, or an open-ended therapy with the scope for deeper exploration of what has brought them.
As a member of both the UKCP and BACP, I practice in accordance with their codes of ethics, including the commitment to broaden my own experience and understanding of the therapeutic process through regular CPD and supervision.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a transpersonal integrative psychotherapist, drawing on a series of perspectives for understanding human experience. I qualified with a Diploma from the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, a qualification I chose because of its scope for considering the whole person: who you are and who you are becoming. The focus of most of the work I do is on my client’s personal experience, and on the ways the past may be alienating them from themselves in the present to leave them feeling restricted and distressed.
However, the experiential and creative aspects of my training at the CCPE open ways for us to be curious about the larger wholes we participate in, and about how personal experience can shape and transform what comes through us into the world. The transpersonal approach is open to the many different ways of understanding our participation in what is greater than “just me”. It could refer, for example, to what is passed down through us from past generations, to cosmic processes or consciousness, or the ecology we share in. Some clients may have spiritual or faith oriented values that can become part of the therapy.
As an integrative practitioner, I draw on a range of different modalities in response to you and your needs and my aim is to help you find a way of using the therapy to feel seen and heard.
I have five years’ extensive experience offering psychotherapy at a low cost counselling service in the South East, plus additional experience at a London-based low cost service.
I work both face to face and online.
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.
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.
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
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I keep a couple of spaces in my practice for clients who pay what is affordable for them. This means there can be a waiting list for these spaces. Please let me know if you'd like to work with me on this basis when you get in touch so that I can let you know if I'm available or not.
Further information
I work both face to face and online.
I offer a free phone or video call in response to your enquiry so that you can get a sense of what it might be like to work with me, let me know more about what is troubling you and ask any questions. If it feels right to go ahead, we can arrange an initial session, which is confirmed by payment of the usual session fee.
Sessions last 50 minutes. The first few sessions are usually different from ongoing ones, as we talk about your situation and history in greater depth. This can feel daunting but my aim is always to help you feel comfortable and able to go at the pace that’s right for you. Sometimes I may slow things down to check I’ve understood what you are sharing from your point of view.
If you would like to continue after the first full session, we can arrange a regular weekly day and time to meet. I will keep this time specifically for you.
