My Approach

I work in a psychoanalytic, relational way. Change, in my experience, comes less from being told what's wrong and more from thinking together, over time. Attending to the patterns, and their links to early experience, that shape your relationships now, can open up the possibility of understanding and therefore of something different.

I usually suggest two or three initial sessions so we can each get a sense of whether this is the right fit - for you to see how I work, and for me to form a view on whether I can help. From there, I see people once, twice or three times weekly.

About Me

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and work in private practice in Walthamstow and Archway, as well as at a specialist service working with transgenerational trauma in the Irish community - adults who experienced childhood trauma and survivors of institutional abuse.

Beginning therapy can be daunting, and people come to therapy for all kinds of reasons. I won't judge you, and together we can think about what it is that's troubling you and over time understand more about you and how your past might be impacting you now.

I don't pathologise sexual or gender preferences, orientations, and expressions. Nor do I work from normative or reductive views. I work towards a thoughtful understanding of you as a person. I also pay attention to the real impact on people of systemic inequalities, including race, class, disability, and gender.

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

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• ADHD
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Anorexia
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Chronic Illness
• Depression
• Disability
• Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Family
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Parents
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sex Problems
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Step Families
• Stress
• Trauma