The relationship we create together is at the heart of my approach. It offers a space where different parts of your experience can be present.
There is also something particular about exploring these things within a relationship rather than entirely on your own. What is experienced between us can sometimes bring another dimension to what we are trying to understand. Not really something to be interpreted from a distance, but as something we can become curious about together.
My approach is integrative and relational, informed by person-centred, psychodynamic, attachment. These perspectives provide different ways of thinking about experience, but they sit in the background.
Life can look entirely together from the outside and feel very different from within. We can become remarkably good at functioning, achieving and meeting the needs of others while losing sight of what is happening in ourselves. Sometimes it is only when there is space to look more closely that different questions begin to emerge. People come to therapy for many different reasons, including times when the reason itself can be difficult to find.
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.