My Approach

Psychoanalytic theory underpins my practice. This informs my philosophy that when we slow things down to recognise and put potentially repeating patterns into words, things can be thought through; pain may be eased; and new ways forward can become possible.

In psychotherapy, you are invited to speak about your life experiences. This includes, while not limited to, describing your hopes, fears, dreams, physical sensations, and also taking the brave step of voicing your moment-to-moment experience in and of therapy, without censoring. This is quite different to social convention and other professional relationships, including other forms of therapy. There is no expectation upon you to say that things are any particular way, only a hope that you become curious and able to describe things as they are felt to be, at any given point in time.

My role includes paying close, committed, and consistent attention to all that you communicate and potentially infer, and respectfully sharing and developing observations together with you, to help you to facilitate a deeper understanding and acceptance of all parts of yourself, aspects of your experience, and life as a whole.

I offer psychotherapy once or twice per week, this takes places at the same set times each week.

I also provide reflective practice sessions for organisations.

You can find more information about how I work, including information on fees, on my website.

About Me

I'm a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Doctor of Counselling Psychology, working both in private practice and the NHS.

I worked as a mental health nurse therapist before completing my doctorate at UWE Bristol, where the main psychotherapeutic modality was relational psychodynamic.

While continuing my psychodynamic practice in NHS eating disorder services and private practice, I've also been fortunate to spend over four years working within an NHS adult community mental health psychodynamic pathway, which forms part of the local training offer for medical psychotherapists.

In addition to my training through my doctorate, I have completed further requirements to become registered with the UKCP as a psychoanalytic / psychodynamic psychotherapist, via the Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy.

I am also nearing completion of a BPC kitemark training in transference-focused psychotherapy. This approach has a focus on supporting people to live a fuller and more stable life and sense of self, through building awareness on aspects of experience that can become fragmented or difficult to hold onto at times of heightened stress.

I work with

• Companies
• Individuals

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

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Chronic Illness
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Family
• Gender
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Online Counselling
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Sex Problems
• Stress
• Suicide
• Telephone Counselling
• Transgender
• Trauma