My approach in one sentence:
I help you explore who you are, what matters to you, and how you want to live — with depth, warmth, and reflective presence.
My role is not to diagnose or direct, but to help you understand yourself more deeply, find clarity, and develop ways of living that feel more grounded, meaningful, and manageable.
I offer a calm, reflective space where you can explore what’s happening in your life, what feels difficult, and what you may want to change. My approach is existential and relational: I work alongside you to understand your themes, dilemmas, patterns, and emotional world, helping you make sense of your lived experience and move towards the adjustments or changes you’re seeking.
Clients come to me with many different experiences — depression, anxiety, stress, worry, grief, bereavement, relationship tension or breakdown, identity questions, confidence issues, burnout, health concerns, and periods of transition or uncertainty. Together we explore thoughts, feelings, family dynamics, relationships, identity, motivation, and the challenges that arise across the lifespan.
I work in private practice, NHS talking therapies, and Employee Assistance Programmes, and bring a long career in counselling, coaching and global human resources (FCIPD) which gives me a deep understanding of people, work, identity, and the pressures of professional life. I am a UKCP and UPCA accredited clinical existential psychotherapist and a Senior Accredited Registrant of the NCPS. My training includes:
Level 7 Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy (Existential Academy, London) – existential and humanistic approaches, CBT, gender and sexuality, and family systems.
MSc in Psychotherapy Studies (Middlesex University) – relational conflict, personal change, lifespan development, well being, health and illness, and cultural and ethical issues.
Training and areas of expertise:
Anxiety, depression, PSTD and CPTSD, bereavement, grief and loss, maladaptive defenses, self-abuse, addiction and dependency, dominance and submission, attachment and separation, family systems and dynamics, relationship tension, sex, breakdown and separation, feelings and emotions, gender, sexuality and identity, well-being, health, ill-being and illness, lifespan and aging, neuroscience and coaching techniques.