About me
- What I offer
I offer a calm, confidential space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and relationships at your own pace, accompanied by an experienced, professionally qualified and registered psychotherapist.
Whether you’re seeking support for a specific issue or are curious about yourself and your place in the world, psychotherapy can offer a unique opportunity for greater understanding, emotional healing, and personal growth.
Sessions are available in person in Guildford, Surrey or online via Zoom for those based elsewhere in the UK or internationally.
- How psychotherapy can help
People often come to therapy during times of difficulty or transition, when life feels overwhelming, uncertain, or out of balance. Psychotherapy offers a consistent, supportive space to make sense of your experience, and to begin navigating change with greater clarity and resilience. But you may simply feel the need to speak with someone in a deeper, more reflective way. Therapy is not only for times of crisis — it can also be a space for exploration, creativity, and self-discovery.
Psychotherapy offers a reliable and non-judgemental space where you can speak openly about whatever is on your mind. Together, we may explore your present difficulties, past experiences, relationships, dreams, or the dynamics that emerge between us in the therapeutic relationship itself.
- Getting started
Before beginning longer-term work, we will meet for one or two initial consultations. These sessions offer us a chance to explore your reasons for seeking therapy, consider whether this approach feels right for you, and decide together whether we would like to continue. We will agree a regular time and day to meet if we decide to proceed.
Training, qualifications & experience
I’m a professionally trained psychodynamic psychotherapist, qualifying through WPF Therapy (now closed) and following earlier studies at Regent’s University. My approach is rooted in psychodynamic thinking, which explores how unconscious processes — often shaped by early experiences — can influence our current emotions, behaviours and relationships. This thinking finds its roots in Sigmund Freud's initial explorations of the unconscious in the early years of the twentieth century, and has been enriched and enlarged through a growing understanding of infantile development and attachment theory.
My work is also deeply informed by the ideas of Carl Jung, whose respect for the uniqueness of each individual continues to inspire me. Jung's development of psychoanalysis, called Analytical Psychology, brings attention to the deep, symbolic and imaginative dimensions of the psyche, and values the inner wisdom that often lies hidden beneath everyday awareness. This has enriched my understanding of the human experience beyond diagnosis or labels.
Further specialist training and ongoing study with the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, the British Psychotherapy Foundation, and Tavistock Relationships have all helped shape my therapeutic practice.
Alongside my clinical training, I’ve spent many years in my own intensive psychotherapy. This experience has given me a real sense of what it can feel like to begin therapy, both the hopes it can awaken and the hesitations that may accompany it.
I also bring a long-standing background in pastoral care, teaching and spiritual accompaniment. Following teaching at WPF Therapy, I now lead psychodynamic skills and theory seminars at the British Psychotherapy Foundation. I offer occasional seminars at the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists where I aim to bring together psychoanalytic developmental theory and classical Jungian thinking. I hold degrees in English Literature, Theology, Spirituality and Mysticism from the universities of Oxford, Roehampton, and London. I also run a reading group for C. G. Jung's Red Book - www.philemon.co.uk
Over the past two decades, I’ve had the privilege of working with a wide range of people from different backgrounds, cultures, identities and belief systems. I aim to bring an open, respectful and non-judgmental attitude to every therapeutic relationship.
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.
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
Therapies offered
Fees
£75.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I do have some flexibility with fees in certain circumstances and we can discuss this during your initial consultation. Fees are reviewed annually.
I also offer a small number of low-cost, time-limited therapy spaces, as I aim to make psychotherapy accessible to a wide range of people.
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