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My Approach

As an integrative psychotherapist, I draw on a range of therapeutic modalities to create thoughtful, high-quality and individually tailored work that meets your needs. I believe that understanding the past helps us locate the origins of what may be shaping your present life, while the work we do together focuses on finding new and more grounded ways of being in the here and now.

My style is warm, open and empathic. My role is to keep you safe, help you make sense of what is troubling you, and support you in finding a way forward. I do not judge. When it is appropriate and you are resourced, I am also willing to challenge you gently if I believe it will help you grow.
I am an engaged and interactive therapist. I am comfortable “getting into the weeds” with clients — helping you think through day-to-day situations, relational patterns and emotional reactions, while also supporting you to recognise and heal from past or present trauma.

I do not tell you what to do, but I walk alongside you, making the process easier to navigate. I work in a non-defensive, collaborative way, and I actively welcome feedback; we check in regularly to make sure the work is helpful and aligned with your goals.

Above all, I aim to offer a safe, steady and reliable presence — someone you can trust while we explore the issues that matter most to you, so that change can take root in a meaningful and lasting way.

About Me

I am an integrative psychotherapist with a depth of experience across multiple therapeutic modalities. This allows me to offer high-quality, individually tailored therapy that meets clients where they are, whether they come to me in crisis, at a transition point in life, or seeking greater clarity and self-understanding. Clients describe my style as warm, direct, grounded and empathic. I work in a non-judgmental and collaborative way, engaging actively with the issues that matter most.

I work with adults experiencing a broad range of psychological and relational difficulties, including anxiety, low self-esteem, trauma, and challenges in work or intimate relationships. I also have extensive experience supporting neurodiverse clients as they navigate assessment, diagnosis and long-term adjustment. Psychotherapy with me is not only for moments of distress; many clients value regular sessions as a space for reflection, clarity, emotional steadiness and growth — work that often sits at the intersection of psychotherapy, coaching and leadership development.

Having grown up internationally and worked across multiple cultures throughout my life, I bring a globally informed and culturally attuned perspective to therapy.

My qualifications include an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy (Metanoia/Middlesex University), a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Metanoia/Middlesex University), a Foundation in Counselling (Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust), and UKAAN/Kings College specialist ADHD training. I am currently completing accredited EMDR practitioner training and work with clients as an insured and supervised trainee.
My earlier clinical work included working in NHS IAPT services and in community counselling centres. While I continue to volunter on an NHS psychiatric ward, I now work exclusively in private practice.

I am a member of the UKCP, BACP and Metanoia Institute and adhere to their ethical codes. Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked internationally as a diplomat, human-rights lawyer and senior advisor in business. I hold a Law Degree, a Masters in law and a Masters in Business (Mediation, Arbitration and Negotiation). I also hold professional indemnity insurance, an Enhanced DBS certificate and Government Security Clearance, and remain an expert to the United Nations and the British Government.

In addition to working as a psychotherapist/coach, I also:
• act as a mediator for relationship, family and workplace conflict
• provide ADHD assessments within a multidisciplinary psychiatric team
• offer tailored ADHD coaching and therapy
• run a monthly online ADHD peer support group

My therapy fee is £170 per 50 minutes. ADHD assessments are priced separately. I can work with major insurance companies.

I work with

Companies
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.

ADHD

ADHD is common among highly successful professionals, entrepreneurs and international people working in complex, high-pressure contexts. Many excel when juggling enormous stress and have remarkable vision, drive and ambition, but struggle with follow through or ever feeling genuinely content. This can lead to a sense of isolation, shame and fraught interpersonal dynamics — often hidden beneath a very capable professional exterior. It can feel like living two lives: the one everyone sees, and the one you keep privately contained. I support clients who are trying to understand whether ADHD might be relevant to their lives. I help you think through the early stages: what ADHD actually is, how it presents in adults, whether it fits your experience, and what your options are. This includes support with the practical and emotional questions involved in deciding whether to seek a diagnosis, and navigating the differences between NHS, private and blended assessment and treatment routes. I am also an ADHD Assessor, holding advanced training in adult diagnosis and assessment through the UK Adult ADHD Network and Kings College. I work as part of a multidisciplinary team offering NHS NICE compliant ADHD assessments, underpinned by full professional indemnity insurance. The assessment pathway I use includes access to medication if you choose that route. It is important to know that not all private ADHD assessments in the UK meet NICE standards or provide a medication pathway, so it is essential to check this before committing. If you already have an assessment in place, I can — with your permission — provide structured updates on your symptoms and functioning to your psychiatrist between appointments, helping you make best use of often time-limited consultations. I also work with clients long-term after diagnosis, offering ongoing therapy and therapeutic coaching to support emotional regulation, build strategies around strengths and sustain consistent performance in demanding roles. I use EMDR where helpful to address the emotional and nervous-system patterns that often sit around ADHD, such as rejection sensitivity, chronic stress, overwhelm, and the impact of earlier criticism or inconsistency. EMDR does not treat ADHD itself, but it can reduce the internal pressure that makes regulation and focus more difficult. I also run a monthly online ADHD peer support group for clients who want a sense of community, understanding and shared experience.

Cultural Issues

I grew up in an expat family, moving country every few years and changing schools often. That early rhythm of transition and adaptation continued into my professional life as a diplomat and later in international organisations, where I worked at senior levels in complex global environments. These experiences give me an instinctive understanding of the realities of a globally mobile life: the resilience it demands, the questions it raises around identity and belonging, the strain it can place on family dynamics and distance, and the pressure of sustaining high performance across cultures and systems. As a result, I work particularly well with clients whose lives and identities span multiple countries, cultures and professional worlds.

Employment Difficulties

I support senior professionals and leaders who find that, despite their expertise and drive, something internal keeps them from moving forward. My work brings together deep therapeutic coaching, EMDR and a neuroscience informed understanding of how the brain and nervous system hold old patterns and how they can be safely rewired so you can respond differently. Most performance and career difficulties are not about capability. They come from emotional or relational patterns that sit in the nervous system and continue to shape how you react, relate and make decisions. I help you identify and process those blocks so that new capacities, confidence and clarity can emerge, not just new behaviours. For example, with clients with ADHD, this means putting structures around your strengths, improving regulation and focus, and enabling steady, reliable performance in complex, high pressure roles. The result is lasting momentum and meaningful change, rather than short bursts of effort followed by burnout.

Infertility

I also support clients navigating infertility while holding demanding careers and responsibilities. When life has always responded to focus and competence, infertility can feel disorienting and at odds with how you are used to moving through the world. It can unsettle a long standing sense of agency and place pressure on identity, relationships and decision making throughout the medical process. I use therapeutic coaching to help clients stay steady, informed and resourced through each stage of investigations and treatment. In addition, while EMDR does not claim to influence fertility outcomes directly, it can ease the emotional and physiological strain that builds up through repeated cycles and uncertainty. By reducing this distress and supporting the nervous system, clients are better able to move through the process with clarity, resilience and a renewed sense of internal ground.

Post-Traumatic Stress

I have a specialist interest in post-traumatic stress. I understand how trauma can quietly but powerfully hold a person back, affecting relationships, emotional steadiness, confidence, career choices and the ability to feel safe or connected. I help you process and integrate what keeps you stuck, so the past no longer drives your present. My therapeutic approach is grounded in extensive clinical experience, including EMDR, and shaped by years working in conflict-affected and human-rights contexts with individuals who have endured profound adversity. This combination of specialist expertise, EMDR proficiency and long-standing work in high-risk environments enables me to work with complex trauma with confidence, depth and care. I work with a wide range of trauma presentations, including complex PTSD arising from childhood neglect, emotional abuse or sexual assault; single-incident PTSD following accidents or other one-off events; and trauma linked to international human-rights situations such as kidnappings and wrongful detention or imprisonment. Drawing on my earlier work in international justice and atrocity crime, I am particularly attuned to the impact of these experiences on both those directly affected and the professionals supporting them.

Types of Therapies Offered

Integrative Psychotherapist

What I can help with

Types of sessions

Face to Face - Long Term
Face to Face - Short Term
Home Visits
Online Therapy
Telephone Therapy

Office

96 Harley Street
W1G 7HY
United Kingdom (UK)

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Cost:

170

Islington Office

265 Upper Street
Islington N1 2UQ
United Kingdom

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Cost:

170

UKCP College

Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College (HIPC)

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