I am a registered and accredited psychotherapist with over 10 years’ experience of working in the NHS. My NHS work involves providing both long-term psychotherapy as well as short-term crisis work. I have trained at the Tavistock Clinic, London and am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council; I have also trained with the Society of Analytic Psychology, London; as well as at the Institute of Group Analysis, London. I am registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP 0375685); British Psychoanalytic Council (22112); the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists (33016); and the National Counselling Society (13-00118).
Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of patients and am familiar with a broad range of psychological issues. This has provided me with a deep insight into the problems that confront people in their day to day lives. Whether it is to do with their professional or personal life: and involves stress and anxiety, loss and bereavement, depression and low mood, lack of motivation and direction; or relationship issues, separation and divorce, sexuality and gender issues or anything else that may be affecting their mental health–I have considered it my unique privilege to have been able to support them through their difficult times.
In particular, I enjoy working with young adults who are struggling with the challenges unique to that stage of their lives. This is because, prior to training to be a psychotherapist, I was a teacher and I taught at several well-known and prestigious schools. So whether it is bullying, or exam stress, or problems to do with procrastination, whether it is lack of motivation or issues to do with gender and sexuality, I can offer you a safe place to explore these issues.
My approach is psychodynamic: this means that I work with the deeper underlying issues rather than with the symptoms that manifest on the surface. My basic training is in Kleinian psychoanalysis but I have since added components of Jungian analytic psychology, and Foulkesian analysis to my thinking. More recently I have become very interested in the work of Stephen Porges. I hope that my own process of growth and exploration is something that will add value to the work that we would undertake together in the therapy.
