About me
Psychotherapy for those seeking not only relief from suffering, but a more authentic, meaningful and deeply lived life.
People come to therapy for many different reasons. Sometimes there is a clearly identifiable struggle: anxiety, depression, complex trauma, abuse, neurodivergence, relationship difficulties, grief, chronic illness or a major life transition.
At other times, something is harder to name.
Your life may look successful or well managed from the outside, yet not feel fully your own. You may be bright, capable and highly reflective, yet find yourself caught in patterns that understanding alone has not changed. Perhaps you have spent years adapting, achieving or meeting other people’s expectations and have begun to wonder what matters to you, who you are beneath those adaptations, or how you want to live the life ahead.
My approach is primarily existential and relational, with close attention to embodied experience. My work is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming and open to questions of meaning and spirituality.
I work with complex and developmental trauma; emotional, psychological, physical and sexual abuse; coercive or controlling relationships; ADHD and autism; anxiety and depression; chronic and serious physical illness and pain; grief and loss; relationship and attachment difficulties; shame and loneliness; sexuality and intimacy; burnout and perfectionism; identity; ageing and significant life transitions.
I am interested in the whole person rather than a diagnosis in isolation. We may explore your thoughts and emotions, but also relationships, bodily experience, family and ancestral histories, culture, identity, sexuality, values, creativity and the wider social worlds that have shaped you.
When trauma or adversity has shaped your life, I am interested not simply in asking “What is wrong?”, but in understanding what happened, how you learnt to survive, what those adaptations protected, and what may now become possible.
I believe psychotherapy can involve more than symptom reduction. Relief from distress matters, but deeper work can also involve greater self-understanding, self-trust, authenticity, freedom and ownership of your choices, as well as a greater capacity to live with uncertainty and respond to change.
Nor is therapy concerned only with suffering. Joy, humour, pleasure, intimacy, beauty, creativity, achievement, curiosity, hope and wonder are also part of what makes a life worth living.
My hope is not that therapy makes you into somebody different, or that it leads to a life in which everything is finally resolved. Rather, it can help you become more fully yourself and more deeply alive within the uncertainty, change and possibility of the life you actually have.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at Regent’s College London, now Regent’s University London, within the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology.
My earlier psychotherapy training was broad and included humanistic and integrative, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic, and existential-phenomenological approaches, leading to the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling.
I subsequently specialised in existential psychotherapy and completed the Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy (ADEP) at Regent’s. I also hold a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Bedfordshire.
I have worked clinically since 2015 and have been in private practice since March 2017.
My professional background includes work with Mind, voluntary work with Samaritans, and wider experience across mental health and social care. These experiences have contributed to my understanding of psychological distress, crisis, disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence and the many different ways people adapt to difficult circumstances.
My initial psychotherapy training has been followed by extensive continuing professional development. My most recent five-year professional record documents 400+ hours of CPD, including further study in complex trauma and dissociation, neurodivergence and ADHD/autism, embodied and affect-based approaches, grief and bereavement, sexual violence, attachment, shame and existential psychotherapy.
Professional standing
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist — Registration no. 2011170287
Registered Member MBACP — BACP Register no. 377848
Member — Society for Existential Analysis
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.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£100.00 - £140.00
Concessions offered for
Further information
My practice is particularly suited to people who value depth, curiosity and thoughtful exploration.
You do not need to arrive with a diagnosis or even a clearly defined problem. Some people come because they sense that something in their life no longer feels authentic or sufficiently alive.
Existential psychotherapy makes room not only for anxiety, trauma and psychological distress, but also for questions of meaning, identity, freedom and responsibility, relationships, embodiment, culture, spirituality, ageing, mortality and the passing of time.
I am equally interested in what makes life worth living: joy, humour, pleasure, creativity, love, intimacy, achievement, beauty and the possibilities that can emerge when we become more fully ourselves.
Sessions are available in person at 37 Queen Anne Street, London W1G 9JB, and online.
