My Approach

My approach is predominantly psychodynamic and psychoanalytic. I use an integrative and tailored to the individual, group or team approach aiming to explore the nature and degree of difficulty and support the person to reach a comfortable awareness of the issues they are struggling with. I am contextually focused and I do a lot of therapeutic work with people who have been surviving non recent traumas. I support people through gentle exploration to regain their life control, power and find their voice. When I work with organisations I use a systemically and psychodynamically informed lens that supports the understanding of the individual's valency in generating and replicating familial patterns of behaviour. In my work with Families I use a combination of Family mediation principles and systemic approaches to conflict resolution to support a more collaborative, outcome focused approach to family conflict.

About Me

As a group analyst I work with individuals, organisations and groups. I have also legal training and I am a qualified Family Mediator. I have more than 20 years of clinical experience in practice and a highly experienced psychotherapist in the field of personality disorders and childhood Trauma. I work with survivors of sexual abuse and I have been involved in various National Inquiries on historic sexual abuse and expert panels. I do sit on the Board of Experts for a UK based Learning disability and Autism services. As an organisational consultant I use systems psychodynamic approaches to help organisations with systems dilemmas and held senior leadership teams develop their teams' culture, members roles and organisational clarity within complex care systems. My research interests centre around exploring HRO systems, organisational risk and systemic intermittence processes in addressing organisational compliance. I practice as a clinical supervisor and coach in various settings with varied client groups both within the statutory and non statutory sector(s). I have extensive NHS experience as a clinician, operational manager and as a senior executive. I have led transformational programmes in complex organisational environments. I lecture at various training institutions as a senior lecturer in topics related to treatment efficacy, diagnostic assessments, Bipolar affective and Personality disorders, psychodynamic theory and practice, systems of organisational psychology, Autism and Restrictive practice processes in NHS Organisations. I sit in various Chambers within MOJ including as a Judicial Office Holder at the First Tier MH Review Tribunal Member. I am accredited International Commercial Legal Mediator. I trained as a Family Mediator and I work with families that are undergoing divorce proceedings helping parents to reach child care and finance arrangements. I work with couples seeking to resolve relational difficulties and interpersonal conflict.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Families
• 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

• Analytical Psychotherapist
• Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
• Group Analytic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bulimia
• Couple Issues
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• Employment Difficulties
• Gender
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Physical Abuse
• Private Practice Issues
• Relationships
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Supervision
• Training
• Transgender
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling