My Approach

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a talking therapy based on saying whatever is going through your mind. This helps you become aware of hidden meanings or patterns in what you do or say that may contribute to your problems. Many people come to therapy because they feel they are trapped by their past and want to talk it through with someone. I provide a space where you can talk about yourself and what troubles you, to try to understand the connections and patterns of your experiences.

Through understanding these connections and patterns therapy can: bring relief; reduce confusion about what helps and what doesn’t; identify changes that can be made in your life; help you come to terms with what can’t be changed.

Psychoanalysis is based on the modern developments of the theories of Sigmund Freud. Freud believed that bad thoughts and experiences from childhood are repressed but continue to influence your feelings as an adult.

About Me

I think of psychotherapy as a conversation. It is a space in which we can think together about what motivates or preoccupies you. How to make use of this space is not predetermined, but discovered in our meeting together. 

I chose to train at The Philadelphia Association for its unique culture in questioning traditional ways of working with mental distress. My approach, whilst psychoanalytic, places emphasis in the specificity of each persons experience in this world, with a sensitivity to how our close relationships and wider society may influence that experience.

With a background in mental health, working with psychosis, neurodiversity, the NHS and therapeutic communities, I offer individual, open ended therapy for adults on a once or twice weekly basis.

I work with

• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist