My Approach

While my practice is psychodynamically-informed, I make use of a number of approaches in order to adapt to your personal needs. I strive to create a safe, non-judgemental space for us to work together to explore your thoughts, feelings, behaviours and experiences in order to make sense of them and think creatively about how to manage difficulties, process them and facilitate change.

It is well known that the best predictor of helpful therapy is the quality of the relationship between the client and the therapist. Personally, I believe that counselling works best when it is a collaborative effort between both of us: you are, after all, the expert on your own lived experience. I have worked with individuals facing a wide range of issues and, while it can sometimes be helpful to draw on my clinical experience, I appreciate that everyone's situation is unique to them. Consequently, I don't make any assumptions about you or your story.

I generally offer appointments on a weekly basis - either in-person or via videocall - and each session lasts for 50 minutes. During our work, we will ensure there is regular space for us to reflect on how we feel therapy is going. I offer a free 20-minute initial consultation via videocall to learn a little about you and explain more about how I work. You can then choose whether you would like to continue meeting with me and what we might think about together.

About Me

I am a psychodynamic counsellor based in Portobello, offering appointments face-to-face and online. I undertook my counselling training in Psychodynamic Practice at the University of Oxford, completing a Postgraduate Diploma (2013) and a research-based Master of Studies (2016). I have worked as a counsellor in a variety of settings including education (universities and high schools), the NHS, charities and Employee Assistance Programmes. For many years, I have enjoyed working in higher education, initially as a student welfare officer, before going on to provide counselling to students at the Universities of West London, Edinburgh and Oxford. Before training as a counsellor, I studied languages and literature and sometimes find it beneficial to make use of this in my work. In addition to psychotherapy, I take an interest in learning and, in 2019, achieved the status of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (AFHEA).

I work with

• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Employment Difficulties
• Family
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Physical Abuse
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide