My Approach

As an integrative Psychotherapist I adopt a relational developmental approach.
I am primarily influenced the work of Richard Erskine and the keyhole model of Relationally-focused Integrative Psychotherapy (Integrative Transactional Analysis).

Towards the start of therapy I usually adopt a psychoeducational approach to build a shared language around relational needs, adaptive strategies, window of tolerance and polyvagal theory. I will then move into a phase of inquiry and insight and work towards resolving internal conflicts with empty chair work.
I help my clients learn how to set boundaries and move towards healthier relationships while building self-esteem and changing self-defeating behaviours.

I believe that as human beings first we need hope, that hope opens the way to trust and that a trusting relationship with another enables us to find meaning, purpose and belonging.

At times the world can seam like a hostile place full of pain and suffering. Other times it can be a place of awe, wonder, beauty, and love. Sometimes the pain we suffer is a wordless agony. We can be drowning in thick black chaotic hate oil, trapped behind glass unable to speak, sinking into a hole inside ourselves, or spending all our energy holding ourselves together terrified of annihilation. We can feel that we are real and no one else is, or everyone else is real and we are not. We can feel so lonely that we chase love and scare people away and then fall into despair and retreat from the world.

Very often its so hard to ask for what we need as it touches the pain of what we never had.
Perhaps we need to know that we are not alone,
that others have felt and do feel as we do,
to be in the presence of another and to feel known, felt and understood.

About Me

I have a Master’s Degree in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute.
My primary interests are around working with Neurodiversity and the healing of Relational Developmental Trauma.
My research was on client experiences of Transpersonal Awakening. I am currently working on the integration of non-dual understanding into my practice.

Most of my experience is around supporting people recover from the experience of growing up with Narcissistic or Borderline parents. I primarily work with Childhood Emotional Neglect, Emotional Abuse and Complex Relational Trauma. This can often include Anxiety, Depression, Low self-esteem, Self-loathing, and Toxic shame.

I have 5 years of experience working as an Integrative Counsellor and work on a weekly basis.

I work with

• 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

• Integrative Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• ADHD
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Autism
• Bereavement
• Couple Issues
• Depression
• Parents
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Relationships
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma