My Approach

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and work at a frequency of one and up to three sessions a week. Once we decide to work together, we will set a regular time for your fifty minute sessions. The session time(s) and day(s) are the same each week. Before we get to that stage, I offer a free brief phone-call of up to fifteen minutes where you can ask me questions and see if we would like to meet. Thereafter, if we are working in person, we have a couple of initial sessions to explore further how we might work together. If we decide to proceed we will set a convenient time to meet weekly. The session is led by what you bring. We work with the present as much as we do with the past. There are many reasons why you might be seeking therapy now, or there may be nothing you can put your finger on, but somehow things don't feel quite right for you. We can together think about what is happening for you in a considered and confidential, safe environment. We can also explore your dreams and the unconscious, and sit with how you are feeling right now. This type of therapy takes time. It is not like CBT or other forms of counselling with a plan and a check list, it is a therapy that slowly unfolds to find what your underlying issues might be, and things that you might not be aware of. I welcome you getting in touch. It can be a big step but one that hopefully will be a rewarding one.

About Me

Hi, Thank you for clicking on my profile. It can be so hard to make a decision when looking for a therapist, who are they, how do they work, how does it feel talking to them? There are so many, how on earth do I pick. It is difficult and hopefully I can explain here somethings about me and how I work. I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, which means that I work in the traditions of Freud, Jung and everything that has followed their schools to the present day. I spent many years rigorously training to do this and trained at the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) where I completed a foundation course and an infant observation course. I completed my clinical training at the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy (AGIP), and held an honorary pychotherapist position in the NHS. Before this training I was and still am, an artist. In that career, I worked closely with clients, looking at their lives, and history. The clients were from every walk of life and background. My work as an artist always focused on the human condition which is what brought me to psychotherapy. This way of working is different, with a nuanced way of listening and a trained ear to make sense of what you bring. Psychoanalytic is a creative therapy and is rather uniques. I am passionate about how we relate to ourselves and to others and how with time and trust, through psychoanalytic therapy we can start to unlock our defensive patters, look at the unconscious and slowly let go of what no longer serves us. Sometimes these ways of relating kept us safe, but are no longer relevant, and we repeat what went before. Sometimes there has been a traumatic event such as a death or serious illness or divorce that you would like help understanding or processing the pain of mourning. Maybe some of your coping mechanisms, feel destructive. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help you, to understand yourself better. It is a therapy that gets to the root of a problem, over time and through the relationship with the therapist. It is the sort of work, that takes two. It is very hard to understand yourself in isolation. You get a focus on you, with the mind of another to help you make sense of yourself.

I work with

• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Age-related Issues
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cancer
• Depression
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Trauma