Despite our best intentions, we often struggle to live our lives in a way that makes us content. While taking into account the reality of external factors (e.g. societal prejudice, economic disadvantage), my approach enables people to see how they may be working against themselves. It also seeks to uncover the deeper meaning of these self-defeating patterns of behaviour, which have often grown out of early life experiences. As a result of this work, a person has a greater sense of freedom when it comes to the choices they make in life, rather than feeling caught up in something beyond their control. The psychoanalytic approach usually requires long-term therapy because it takes time to bring our self-limiting thoughts and behaviours and what motivates them into awareness.
I am a member of the Guild of Psychotherapists.
I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with more than 10 years' experience of working with people facing issues such as depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship problems, low self-esteem and trauma. I offer a confidential space in which people can come to understand how unconscious psychological blocks may be contributing to their difficulties. I work in English or French and see patients once, twice or three times a week.
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.