My experience
My five-year postgraduate training in integrative psychotherapy was accredited at master’s level. Grounded in psychoanalytic and relational theory, attachment research, and humanistic principles, it also incorporated the latest developments in neuroscience, somatic psychology, and trauma-focused work, including around sexual violence.
I also have a wide-ranging and specialist clinical background, including work within the NHS as a psychotherapist for King’s College Hospital’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), with dancers and musicians at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and with a diverse client group at a highly regarded community therapy service in Queen’s Park, London.
Alongside my clinical work, I’m an established writer on mental health in national and international publications. I’m currently conducting academic research on the impact of AI chatbot use in the therapy room.
My practice is inclusive and affirming of LGBTQAI+ clients, and I fully endorse the BACP Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, which unequivocally opposes the practice in all its forms.
If you are unsure about whether therapy with me would be right for you, please get in touch and we can have an initial session to see if we would be a good fit.
My approach
Therapy with me is active and collaborative. I will allow plenty of space for you to talk and be understood, however I also tend to ask questions, notice patterns and, like a detective of sorts, pay attention to the small details that might help us understand and make meaning out of what you’re experiencing.
Instead of offering advice, I’ll encourage your curiosity about your inner world, recurring patterns, past experiences, current relationships, feelings and fantasy life.
This can sometimes involve working to understand how your early relationships may have had an impact on you.
I’m also a relational therapist, which means an exploration of the relationship between the two of us will also likely be part of our work. Together we will pay attention to what happens between us in the therapy room and how it can help us understand you and your other relationships better.
I take a 'psychosocial' approach, which means that I won’t focus only on your 'internal' world but will be open to exploring societally inflicted trauma, if this feels relevant.