You may be at a point in your life where you are feeling sad, directionless, anxious, or despairing. You might feel stuck in patterns of behaviour that feel unhealthy or destructive. You may feel as if past life events are impacting you in the present day.
Perhaps you need some time to understand yourself better, to reflect on your inner life and consider how it affects the way you feel and act.
Gaining insight helps to build a more stable sense of yourself, and can improve your relationships with others: developing this insight is central to the work of therapy.
Your concerns may seem too big, too personal, or too trivial to share with friends and family. But with me you will be encouraged to share anything you want to about your life, both past and present.
To open and share our most private thoughts and fears can be invaluable. In fact, the decision to start therapy can be one of the most positive steps we ever take.
A first conversation to talk through what's brought you here, and to see whether I might be the right therapist for you.
Open-ended therapy for depth over time, or short-term work — twelve sessions — focused on a particular pattern or goal.
Sessions are 50 minutes, at a regular time that's yours.
I hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from WPF, London, where I trained in both open-ended and short-term therapy. As well as working in private practice for over a decade, I have extensive experience in university student counselling.
My own background, before training as a psychotherapist, is in education and the arts.
The people I have worked with have come with many different life experiences: I firmly believe in treating each person who seeks therapy as an individual.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). These professional bodies ensure that all of their members are appropriately trained and qualified, that they continue with their professional development and that they adhere to their Ethical Framework for Good Practice.