I'm a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a professional member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (AGIP). I work from my private practice in Stratford, East London, with adults and young adults.
My clinical background spans over a decade and includes work across mental health, social care and higher education. I have worked with people experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including in counselling, assessment and university mental health service. My earlier experience also includes working with autistic adults, survivors of abuse and young people in care, as well as designing and delivering training across social care and technology settings.
These varied experiences have shaped my belief in approaching each person as an individual, rather than making assumptions based on diagnosis, difficulty or life circumstances alone.
I work psychoanalytically, this means listening closely to what you say and to what emerges in the work between us. While symptoms may ease through therapy, I'm also interested in the patterns and experiences that may be difficult to put into words and explore how they shape your sense of yourself and your relationships.
Exploring these aspects can open up new ways of understanding yourself and your relationships. You may begin to notice connections between feelings, experiences and situations that previously seemed unrelated, allowing you to make sense of your present circumstances in a different way. Over time, this can create greater freedom in how you think about situations and respond to them, so that familiar patterns no longer determine your choices in quite the same way. Things that once felt difficult to think about or change may become more possible to approach differently.
Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.