I am an experienced psychodynamic psychotherapist with highly specialised trainings in working with individuals and couples. I have worked for over 15 years in the field of mental health in NHS and charitable settings as well as in private practice. I enjoy working with people from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.

HOW I WORK

I work in a flexible and empathic way to help you better understand and ultimately move past the particular issues that you bring. Together we will try to make sense of your current difficulties in the light of your past experiences and relationships. In this way psychodynamic psychotherapy can give you greater insight, together with the capacity to bring about positive change. I also draw on other therapeutic approaches where I feel it will be helpful.

In couple psychodynamic psychotherapy the relationship is the “patient” in that we try to look at what you have co-created rather than one or the other of you being to blame.

My aim from the outset is to establish a trusting therapeutic relationship in which you should be able to explore potentially painful areas of your life that you may not have been able to talk about before.

WHAT I CAN HELP WITH

I work with individuals who are experiencing anxiety, depression, loss, or who are generally feeling unfulfilled in some area of life. I find that my couple training also helps my work with individual clients who often want to better understand important relationships in their lives whether family or romantic.

Couples often come for therapy because they feel stuck and realise that they have fallen into unhelpful ways of relating. Couple therapy can help you to work through some of these “no go” areas and move towards a freer and more joyful relationship. Some couples may use therapy to help them to separate in a respectful way.

I often work with cross-cultural couples and those who are living abroad which may bring particular challenges to the relationship. I am also experienced in working with couples who are thinking about or are having difficulty starting a family including couples going through fertility treatment. Other reasons for couples coming to therapy include issues around sex, life transitions, bereavement and illness.

I also work with family relationships, with siblings or a parent and (adult) child who are needing help to improve their relationship.

My former career was as a producer and journalist in international affairs.