About Me

I work with people who are in crisis or suffering repeated patterns in their lives, are ready to turn things around, and are looking for a skilled, experienced and committed therapist to show them what is going wrong and how to change it.

I am a UKCP accredited and BACP registered with 13 years of experience working as a Psychotherapist.

I specialise in a Psychotherapy that has been formulated to accelerate psychological change.

There are always reasons for psychological suffering, and when we do not tackle the underlying causes, this suffering tends to be repeated throughout our lives.

I aim to help you resolve the difficulties you bring in a collaborative, focused and emotionally therapeutic way.

ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) is a metapsychology that focuses on the understanding the unconscious processes that drive and maintain psychological symptoms.

ISTDP has been developed to make therapy more effective, efficient and cost-effective. This works in the following way:

- By identifying defences as they occur automatically in our interaction, and demonstrating how they link to the problems you bring

- By bringing awareness to causality, i.e. the stimuli that bring about feelings; the defences used to get rid of feelings, and the symptoms this creates. (This sequence is usually unconscious and rapid. By making it conscious in our interaction, you will gain more control over it)

- By experiencing feelings and following the impulses they generate; impulses that are there to help you to live well: i.e. to know what you want, to express yourself clearly, to stand up for yourself constructively, to appreciate and care for yourself and others, to gain closeness in relationships rather than feel alone

- By regulating anxiety by paying attention to how it manifests in the body, and by accessing the feelings that the anxiety is covering up.

Therapy can be life-changing; bringing confidence, vitality, purpose, a realisation of potential, and more satisfying relationships.

ISTDP is evidenced to be effective for a broad range of emotional and psychological issues, such as anxiety, depression, relationship problems, emotional, thought or behavioural issues, medically unexplained symptoms such as pain and fatigue, mood and personality disorders, and for enhancing one’s experience of life.

Research indicates results are long-lasting, with improvements continuing after the therapy.

My approach involves Deliberate Practice which means I continually review my work independently and with senior colleagues. This ensures I'm working to the best possible standard, helping you achieve your goals in the shortest possible time.

I also continually ask my clients for feedback on how they are responding to the therapy on how things are progressing for them.

This background work is akin to quality control; the therapy can be attuned accordingly, allowing for misattunements to be corrected, and to reduce drawn-out suffering and stuckness.

Deliberate Practice and Client Feedback is known to improve quality of practice and overall outcomes.

Please see my website for further information.

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

• Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• ADHD
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bulimia
• Bullying
• Chronic Illness
• Couple Issues
• Depression
• Divorce
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Employment Difficulties
• Family
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Prescribed Drug Dependence
• Relationships
• Separation
• Sex Problems
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Step Families
• Stress
• Suicide
• Trauma