My Approach

My training as a coach and then counsellor and psychotherapist started with being involved in the career coaching community for migrants and expats. I went on to train as a person-centred counsellor, which provided me with the invaluable grounding of deep respect, compassion and a relational and ethical stance towards clients. After five years, I found that this approach had its limitations. The emphasis was individualistic and seemed unprepared to address the harder aspects of life such as trauma and the socio-political dimensions clients experience. An Advanced Diploma in Integrative – Relational Psychotherapy offered me the rigour and perspective I was seeking.

I am committed to lifelong learning as a therapist, in service of current and future clients. Currently, I am studying Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with the IPT in London.

About Me

The pleasures and meanings in life always come through connection. A connection with other people or animals, through being in nature or urban settings. This sense of connection and my lifelong interest in human existence have been my passion and motivation in my work as a psychotherapist.

With Eastern European and West African heritage, I grew up as a mixed-heritage and third-culture individual in Germany. As a child, I lived in France and Germany and in my late twenties, I moved to the United Kingdom, experiencing first-hand the process of being a foreigner and creating a new relationship with the idea of home.

My personal experience of migration, motherhood, and family history has made me open and empathic to a wide range of ways of seeing and perceiving the world. It has allowed me to work with hundreds of diverse people in various settings such as schools, universities, community organisations and the private sector. Through these experiences, I developed a holistic psycho-social attitude towards human distress.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• 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

• Integrative Psychotherapist