About me
I spent the first part of my career abroad. First in the U.S. where I worked in their equivalent of the NHS. After that I moved to Argentina where I had a private practice working mainly with the expatriate community. After this I moved to Phnom Penh Cambodia where I lived for 10 years. There I opened a therapy centre where I worked with aid workers, military personnel, business people, and locals. I moved back to London about 10 years ago, and have been in private practice here ever since. This experience helps me understand the international/transitional experience.
I work mainly with individuals, teenagers to adults. In the time I've been working, I've learned that people are amazingly resilient. That they often grow from life crisis', and that depression and difficulties with anxiety are also in time sources of strength. Life is complex, but often what we think is a weakness, or a bad event, in time we can see differently.
What is Counselling, and How Can it Help
There's two types of counselling, short term and longer term. Short term is for those who were generally OK in their life, and then either lots of negative events began happening, a perfect storm if you like, or one or two major things happened. This gives a feeling of life 'coming off the rails', and a need to 'right the ship' or get your feet back on the ground.
Then there's longer term work which is more for those that have never really felt good about themselves or the world their whole life. This therefore requires a longer therapy, which can actually become quite a profound journey. Change can be difficult, but it's amazing how far people can go from where they came.
A quick note to say that it is the 21st Century, and so there are new interventions that exist now. The two that I think are the most significant are psychedelics and AI. I believe that both can be of great use, and so I'm happy to integrate them. Obviously if you're preference is to not use these things, then I'm more than happy to work with you as well. It's all a journey, and different things work for different people!
For anyone still reading who would like to know more about longer term therapy. I would say that it as a process of getting back in touch with what you really feel and think. Trauma and abuse disconnects you with yourself, and so you struggle to hear your own intuition, or needs and wants. This means you're life can end up quite far away from anything that resembles you. This in turn creates a lot of suffering, as you can end up in really bad places. In relationships that cause a lot of pain, or repeating habits that hurt you, or working in careers that grind on you.
If you'd like to know more about me, or how I work, feel free to click the website link above.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a psychotherapist with a Masters in Clinical Psychology. I'm also trained in E.M.D.R. therapy, and arts therapy. I specialize in working with:
- P.T.S.D./Trauma
- ADHD
- Abuse, current or childhood
- Culture related issues
- anxiety
- relationship problems including separation, affairs, and divorce
- family issues
- adolescence/teenager related problems
- sexual problems
- depression
- Emergency Services
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).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Expatriate therapy
- Immigration
- Third Culture Kid
- Third Culture Experiences
- Culture Shock
- Counter culture shock
- Working abroad
Therapies offered
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Fees
£85.00 - £115.00
Additional information
I often do longer sessions of 80mins for £115, but can do shorter sessions of 50mins for £85.
