My Approach

My work is grounded in existential psychotherapy and phenomenology. In practice, this means paying close attention to how you experience your life and the meaning you make of what happens to you.

My training was integrative, drawing on psychoanalytic, humanistic and cognitive-behavioural approaches, with a strong grounding in existential therapy. This allows the work to remain thoughtful and flexible, while still holding a focus on questions of meaning, choice and responsibility.

From an existential perspective, experiences such as anxiety, sadness and uncertainty are not signs that something is wrong. They are often understandable responses to loss, change, responsibility, or the limits of control we all live with. In a session we would take these experiences seriously and explore what they may be pointing to in your life.

Therapy offers a space to reflect honestly on choices, values and direction, and to consider how you want to live. Sometimes this may involve change, at other times it can involve developing a different understanding of yourself and responding to your experiences with more compassion.

About Me

I am an existential-integrative psychotherapist working with people who may be finding life difficult to manage, make sense of, or navigate. People come to therapy for many different reasons – sometimes in response to something specific such as a loss or life transition, and sometimes because life has begun to feel overwhelming, stuck, or hard to live with.

I aim to offer a reflective and collaborative space where experiences that may have been difficult to speak about elsewhere can be explored more openly. I’m particularly interested in how people come to relate to themselves and others over time. Often the ways we cope, respond to emotions, or approach relationships develop from earlier experiences and the ways we had to adapt to them. While these ways of coping may once have helped us get through difficult situations, they can sometimes begin to feel limiting later on.

Thinking about these experiences, as well as the wider social and cultural contexts we live within, can bring a different understanding of patterns that may feel hard to shift. Often this can also open up the possibility of relating to ourselves with greater understanding and compassion.

Alongside my clinical work, my research explored internalised sexism and the impact that gender expectations can have on people of all genders. This continues to shape how I think about identity, self-worth and the influence of cultural narratives within therapy.

I work with

• 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

• Existential Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cancer
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Family
• Health-related Issues
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Terminal Illness