About Me

I am an individual, couples and family therapist based in central London. I also offer virtual psychotherapy. Please do contact me if you would like an appointment.

I am a UKCP accredited systemic psychotherapist with thirty years practice-based experience and have written extensively within academic psychotherapy journals. I sit on the editorial board of the UK Journal of Family Therapy and have done so for many years. I have dual training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and systemic psychotherapy. I worked for many years at the Anna Freud Centre as a family therapist and have extensive experience of working in child and adolescent mental health services within the NHS. I have undertaken coach training and am interested in common themes between coaching and psychotherapy.

Increasingly, I position my work in a coaching framework but with in-depth understanding of the psychotherapeutic dimensions of helping to bring about personal, relational, and family change. My areas of specialism are parent coaching in the full range of behavioural and emotional challenges of being a parent including parenting a child with additional needs and perhaps making sense of a diagnosis or networks of professional involvement. I also work with individuals, couples and families who are meeting other major life transitions such as fertility problems, adopting a child, adolescent difficulties, retirement and moving on, bereavement, divorce, post-divorce parenting, and single parenting. The above is not a conclusive list and I am very happy to discuss with you whether I am able to help should you wish to contact me.

At the heart of effective psychotherapy and coaching is a creative and liberating conversation with another person with whom one can connect and feel understood. In my work I draw primarily on systemic, psychodynamic, and coaching principles. I generally work with a time limited contract of six sessions following an initial assessment meeting. This contract can be reviewed and extended if appropriate. The emphasis within systemic psychotherapy on relationships, strengths and resilience is central to my work and its flexibility allows me to tailor the work to my clients’ needs and preferences.

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Family and Systemic Psychotherapist
• Family Therapist
• Systemic Family and Couple Psychotherapist
• Systemic Psychotherapist