About me
Being alive is beautiful and confusing
We grapple with this every day. Perhaps a bereavement, break-up or job loss has left you feeling lost and low. You might have feelings you don't understand or are struggling to manage day to day living. Perhaps you're struggling with traumatic experiences, difficulties with food, your relationship to your body or intimacy. Or maybe you're experiencing a sense of stuckness in your life.
Exploring your experiences
We work together to explore your experiences. Sessions will likely weave through your current difficulties, their relationship to your past, your desires for something different, and what you sense is getting in the way.
How you learned to be you
As a psychodynamic and psychoanalytically-oriented practitioner, I am curious about how our early life teaches us to be a person, in a body, relating to the world around us. Becoming aware of these can better help us understand how we might be repeating patterns preventing us from living with creativity and meaning.
A text box on a page can only go so far. I encourage you to contact me so we can think together about what might be in your best interests.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an experienced psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist. I have worked as a psychotherapist for charities serving queer and gender non-confirming clients and for the NHS as part of secondary psychological services in Newham, East London. I also have a role as part of the editorial group for the academic journal Psychodynamic Practice.
I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council and International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. I work within their ethical guidelines.
I undertook my psychotherapy training with Birkbeck University, completing their MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with adults. Prior to this I completed the qualifying Graduate Certificate in Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counselling. I have gone on to complete a Foundation training in Group Analysis with the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) and specialist trainings in infertility, pregnancy loss and subsequent pregnancies after loss with the Foundation for Infant Loss.
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
I work with people from all walks of life who are experiencing difficulties and feelings of confusion and loss that colour times of transition in our lives. I often work with young professionals in navigating the complex dynamics of corporate organisations and creative living.
I have experience working in NHS secondary psychological services with patients with different diagnoses, mental health conditions and traumatic childhood experiences. I am also experienced working with gender-affirming medical care and queer relationships.
I have special interests in working with difficulties relating to our bodies and embodied experiences:
- Questions around gender, sexuality and sexual experiences
- Difficulties with body image
- Relationships to food, exercise and difficulties with eating
- Bodily changes connected to medical conditions, experiences of illness and fertility-oriented health issues like Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome / Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and Endometriosis.
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 - £150.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
We will discuss fees and suitable time to meet every week during our assessment. We will discuss and agree these before therapy starts. My fees are negotiable based on your circumstances and I have a small number of spaces for concessions.
