My Approach

My work today is predominantly psychoanalytic, developed through more than fifteen years of training and clinical practice in experiential, embodied and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

There has been a consistent thread throughout this development: an interest in aspects of ourselves that are not immediately available to conscious thought, but which nevertheless shape how we feel, relate to others and experience the world. My earlier training taught me to attend closely to unconscious patterns expressed through language, imagery and the body. Psychoanalytic training has deepened this considerably through its attention to unconscious conflict and phantasy, early relationships, transference and countertransference, and to what emerges within the relationship between therapist and patient.

My earlier training in Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy developed my interest in unconscious patterns of experience and the ways these can be expressed through language, imagery, memory and bodily experience. My subsequent training in Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy took this further into embodied and developmental experience, including the symbolic expression of unmet needs and early relational patterns.

These are distinct therapeutic traditions and I do not simply combine their techniques. Psychoanalytic thinking now provides the principal framework for my work, whilst my earlier experiential and embodied training continues to inform my sensitivity to bodily experience, non-verbal communication and experiences which may be felt or enacted before they can be put into words.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has deepened this exploration through its particular attention to unconscious phantasy, internal conflict, early relationships, transference and countertransference, and to what emerges within the relationship between therapist and patient. These approaches are theoretically and technically distinct, and I do not attempt to combine them into a single method. Rather, my earlier experiential and embodied training continues to inform my sensitivity as a clinician, while psychoanalytic thinking provides the principal framework for my work. I am particularly interested in being able to think psychoanalytically while remaining alive to bodily experience, non-verbal communication and experiential processes that may be difficult to put into words.

About Me

I am a UKCP Registered Clinical Psychotherapist qualified since 2013. My current clinical practice is predominantly psychoanalytic, and I am undertaking further specialist training in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In addition, I have long-standing background in experiential and embodied psychotherapies. I work within Staffordshire and the West Midlands as well as further afield.

My work today is informed by an interest in aspects of ourselves that are not immediately available to conscious thought, but that nevertheless shape how we experience ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us.

I work with

• Couples
• 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

• Neuro-linguistic Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• ADHD
• Age-related Issues
• AIDS/HIV
• Anger Management
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Chronic Illness
• Couple Issues
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Employment Difficulties
• Family
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sex Problems
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Step Families
• Stress
• Suicide
• Telephone Counselling
• Terminal Illness
• Those at Risk of Sexual Offending
• Transgender
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling