My Approach

I am a Humanistic and Gestalt psychotherapist and a clinical supervisor. I am also an insomnia coach (CBT-i advanced practitioner).

About Me

Therapy in London. In person in Chancery Lane, and Shoreditch, and online. One-to-one and groups.

Gestalt and Existential Psychotherapy; CBT for insomnia; Creative supervision for therapists.

Gestalt and Humanistic psychotherapy: The principle underlying my existential approach is to support clients to embody a life mantra of "Do no harm; take no shit". My focus will be to help you develop your relationship to your Self. Deepening your capacity for self-acceptance, self-nurturing, and self-awareness. Moving beyond chronic indecision, regret, guilt, over-thinking or worrying about how others experience you. Strengthening your self worth and openness to accepting yourself as you are. Making use of your incredible capacity for change. Completing 'unfinished business' from your past when it interrupts and shapes your present in ways that no longer serve you. This forms the bedrock of your wider relationships with others. Therapy can help you truly explore how you show up in your relationships with others, and help you relate to others from a more consistently steady and well-regulated 'adult' state. Gestalt therapy is also an extremely beneficial approach for working through loneliness, empty feelings and disappointment about your life and your choices.

Insomnia:
I offer CBT-i for insomnia. Insomnia is an anxiety experience, which interrupts your body's involuntary capacity to fall asleep, and stay asleep. CBT-i with me will help you to fall asleep faster, have fewer problematic night awakenings, and to be more well-rested, without use of medication or pharmaceuticals. I follow the CBT-i model researched and practiced at the SCNi (Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Oxford University), where I trained. I am under supervisory consultation with Donn Posner, Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. CBT-i is the gold standard, treatment of choice according to NICE guidelines and within the NHS for long and short-term insomnias.

Creative supervision: I have a UKCP Diploma in Creative Approaches to Supervision from the London Centre for Psychodrama. For therapist supervisees I offer: fortnightly primary supervision for fully-qualified and trainee therapists; ad-hoc creative/ psychodramatic sessions to enrich your existing clinical supervision; and supervision groups. I draw on expressive, art-based, psychodramatic and psychodynamic theory.

I work with

• Groups
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

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

• Gestalt Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• ADHD
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Couple Issues
• Employment Difficulties
• Stress
• Supervision
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling