My Approach

Psychoanalytic theory underpins my practice. This leads me to give importance to slowing things down to recognise and put potentially repeating and automatic patterns into words. By thinking things 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 paying attention to your hopes, fears, dreams, physical sensations, relationships, and the circumstances in which they take place. It can also be helpful to take the brave step of speaking freely about your moment-to-moment experience of the therapeutic process and relationship. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is, then, quite different to social convention and other professional relationships, including other forms of therapy.

In psychodynamic psychotherapy, there is no expectation upon you to say that things are any particular way; only a hope that you become curious and able to notice and describe things as they are felt to be, so that we can try to make sense of things together.

My role includes paying close, committed, and consistent attention to all that you communicate and might potentially infer; and respectfully sharing and refining these observations together with you. My aim in doing so, is to help you to facilitate a deeper understanding and acceptance of all parts of yourself, aspects of your experience, and life as a whole.

By making connections, thinking and talking through aspects of experience which were previously somewhat unconscious, or at least not held in mind at the same time, you can have greater (feasible) choices about how to live.

My professional interest in troubled experiences of the body, eating, and relationships includes patterns that are sometimes labelled as personality disorder. I often use transference-focused psychotherapy (or its principles) as an approach to supporting people to gain a fuller and more stable life and sense of self.

Transference focused psychotherapy provides a way of building awareness and acceptance of aspects of experience that can become fragmented or difficult to hold onto at times of heightened stress. Things that I value about transference focused psychotherapy include the setting up of therapy in a way that is clear and demystified. I also find the method of sharing and refining observations to be similarly helpful and respectful.

I offer psychotherapy once or twice per week. This takes place 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 up-to-date information on fees, on my website.

About Me

As a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Doctor of Counselling Psychology with a firm commitment to anti-discriminatory practice, I am interested in unconscious processes and their corresponding family, social, and societal contexts; past and present.

I’ve worked in the NHS for many years, including in Community Eating Disorder Services, where I’m a Principal Psychological Therapist, and a psychodynamic stream of a Complex Psychological Intervention Service.

I decided to extend my practice with a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology after beginning my career in Mental Health Nursing, and then training and working as a CBT Therapist.

I completed my Doctorate at UWE Bristol, where the main psychotherapeutic modality was psychodynamic. Additionally, I fulfilled the further requirements to become registered with the UKCP as a Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, via the Hallam Institute of Psychotherapy.

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