About me
Therapy for me encompasses three key values: connecting with people, working creatively, and discussing life philosophically.
I am a 36 yr old queer therapist and have been working in private practice for the last 7 years. My background is in philosophy, which forms a fundamental part of my therapeutic approach, and also greatly influences the way I think about relationships with ourselves, others and the world.
My therapeutic style is based on making the line between who I am as a person and who I am as a therapist as thin as possible. In this way I aim to create a therapeutic process connecting on a person-to-person level.
I am also an integrative therapist which means I weave together a wide range of knowledge and skills to best meet your needs as a client. This includes both therapeutic modalities but also may include other skills such as; yoga, breathwork, somatics, movement, artistic practices, philosophy and creative embodiment.
Through the process sometimes we will have to move into vulnerable and uncomfortable spaces, but we can also laugh and share in the beauty and joy of life as well.
For me therapy is a philosophical and spiritual journey to help better understand how to bring your life back into homeostasis. We do this by learning how to integrate all aspects of ourselves; the good, the bad and the ugly. Also, mind, body, emotions and spirit.
I am not a silent aloof professional nodding and making soothing noises. I see myself as a therapist who is a collaborator; a present, active and engaged participant in your process. Offering my own thoughts, feelings and observations to help make connections between present difficulties and past experiences.
Together we will work to bring greater self-awareness to what is troubling you and what aspects of your life you are wanting to understand and work on. As well as building self-esteem and self confidence in what makes you you!
If you would like to know more about how I work please visit my website:
Training, qualifications & experience
I have experience working with a broad range of clients and as a queer counsellor also respect and work affirmatively with diversity and difference.
Some of the areas I have experience working with include:
- Disconnection, despondency and depression
- Working with creative embodiment, somatics breathwork, creative/art based mediums and expression, walk&talk therapy
- Relationship therapy - including couples, open relationships, polyamory, asexuality
- Working with gender diversity
- Existential crisis
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger expression
- Anxiety and panic attacks
- Men's mental health, exploring masculinities
- Working with self-confidence and self-esteem
- Working affirmatively with difference and intersectionality; POC, LGBTQIA+, TGNB, GSRD, disabilities, neurodivergence
- Feeling lost, lonely and despairing
- Working with spirituality
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£85.00 - £125.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual Therapy
I offer fees on a sliding scale from £85-125 per 50 min session.
I do offer reduced fee bands. Please include this in your email enquiry if this applies to you.
Supervision
£90 per 1hr session
Couples Fees
£125-£175 per 1hr session
Our first session together will be your assessment session. This gives us a chance to get to know each other and to dive into the reasons for you coming to therapy.
I work with an open-ended process so there are no fixed number of sessions that we work to.
Some of my clients have been with me for years, others find they get what they need from shorter term work between 12 and 24 sessions.
As the work evolves we will have regular reviews to check in. Monitoring both the progress that is being made as well as any blocks or resistances we may encounter along the way.
I offer limited concession spaces and lower rates for persons who have low income or are unemployed and for trainee counsellor.
I offer face-to-face and online counselling.
Please email me if you have any further questions or would like to make arrangements for counselling.
My room in East Dulwich is easily accessible from; Herne Hill (SE24), Clapham (SW4), Stockwell (SW9), Kennington (OX1), Camberwell (SE15), Nunhead (SE15), Peckham (SE15), Forest Hill (SE23), Brockley (SE4), Honor Oak Park (SE23), Sydenham (SE26) and Crystal Palace (SE19) and London Bridge (SE1).
When I work
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