My Approach

I’m a relational Gestalt psychotherapist working with individuals and groups.

Life is full of challenges that can leave us feeling hurt, lonely, or unable to move on. I specialise in supporting clients to navigate these unresolved situations and the meaning they hold for them.

My approach to therapy is we work together exploring your experiences – emotions, perceptions, behaviours, body sensations, ideas and memories. We’ll look at how you’ve learned to process these experiences and how they relate to your current situation. This includes understanding how your internal self – your emotional and physical needs – connects to the rest of your world and how this shapes the choices available to you.

My goal is not to interpret your life events. Instead, I want to help you understand their significance to you now and support you in making choices based on that knowledge.

My approach begins with an understanding that we live our lives in relationships. How we make sense of the world is through the relationships and situations we encounter, including the relationship we have with ourselves.

We often learn to build ourselves up to compensate for the pain we’ve experienced. However, sometimes our ways of dealing with situations become fixed, leading to beliefs about ourselves and others that get in the way of us being seen, understood and pursuing our goals. Also sometimes, we get in our own way, adapting to life’s demands without realising it.

I provide a supportive space to explore how you’ve adapted and become accustomed to responding to people and situations in ways that no longer work for you. Together in partnership, we will look at areas that you bring to therapy and work through them.

For many people, therapy helps to develop a greater understanding of themselves, and to make new choices.

As we work together, I will share what I notice with you, supporting your own awareness about how you feel and relate to the work we do and the people in your life. As we explore these different situations; we will look into what is present for you and what may be missing in order to cope or address what you’d like to change.

What to expect

I offer a free initial 15-minute telephone call so you tell me what you’d like to bring to therapy and ask questions. You can find out more about how I work and get a sense of what working together will be like. From there we can decide whether to have an initial 50-minute session.

The initial session is where I’ll take some background and current information and we’ll begin to look at the area(s) you’d like support to address. If it feels like we can work together, we’ll then plan a regular time to meet with a check in at session 6 to see how the therapy is progressing.

I work short and long term with clients, depending on your needs.

I work with clients both in person and online.

I offer a reduced rate initial session.

About Me

I aim to build a safe, trusting, mutual relationship where honest and respectful discussion can take place.

I’m experienced in working with trauma, depression and anxiety, addictions, shame, relationship and family issues, gender, sexuality, identity and relationship diversity, critical thoughts and overthinking, anger and other difficult emotions, bereavement and loss and life transitions.

I am sensitive to experiences of inequality and exclusion. I have supported people from diverse backgrounds, including black, Asian, and LGBT communities, as well as neurodiverse individuals.

I also hold an MA in Communities, Organisations and Social Change, and my extensive experience in these areas informs my work as a psychotherapist.

I work with

• Groups
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

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.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Gestalt Group Psychotherapist
• Gestalt Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Trauma