My Approach

Attachment based Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
integrative Psychotherapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Psychotherapy (EMDR adults and children)
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
Radical Social Work
Internal Family Systems (IFS)

About Me

Currently I do not have vacancies. (March 2024).

I trained at the Bowlby Centre in Adult Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and then at Terapia in Integrative Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. I was a Registered Social Worker (HCPC) and worked with child protection, adoption, fostering and mental health for over 30 years but decided to cease this registration as I now just work as a psychotherapist. I offer attachment based psychoanalytical psychotherapy to individuals, children and young people, work with the arts, am EMDR trained ( a trauma therapy) and can also offer Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy to increase attachment and understanding between parents and children. I am particularly interested in working with developmental trauma (children and young people), and complex trauma (adults). I can offer therapeutic life story work for children who are in care, or who have been adopted, or who are placed with relatives. Recently I have been learning about Internal Family Systems (IFS) and incorporating that into my work, especially combining it with EMDR. I am on a learning curve, working with parts, and treating Dissociative Identity Disorder.

I work with

• Children and young people
• Families
• Individuals

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

• Adolescent Psychotherapist
• Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
• Child Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Adoption
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Domestic Violence
• EMDR
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Infertility
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Parents
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Telephone Counselling
• Terminal Illness
• Trauma