My Approach

I provide psychotherapy services from within a pluralistic framework. This means I can contract as an existential psychotherapist (UKCP registered through Society for Existential Analysis) or I can contract to provide 3rd wave CBT (registered via BABCP as an accredited CBT therapist: my specialism is 3rd wave Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, ACT mindfulness informed CBT). I'm also a qualified MBCT therapist (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapist). All three qualifications are post graduate Masters level qualifications and I can bring these different approaches into each distinct therapy. Some times we re contract because a different approach is more relevant to needs. The work, whatever modality we use, will help you to 'get a handle' on difficult feelings and/or difficult circumstances and to move forward. I now also have training in EMDR.

About Me

Hello, I'm 58 years of age and have been practising as a psychotherapist for over 20 years. I've been through many life changes. I've got three adult children from two separate marriages and have been involved in the care of two step sons. I built a mindfulness based community in Hertfordshire and it was very rewarding! I'm a musician and martial artist but would say that my training in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the 90's- under the guidance of my teacher Akong Rinpoche- has been a big part of my original psychological learning and is a mainstay of my life. These practices have facilitated me towards more acceptance and resilience in the face of sometimes difficult circumstances. I was adopted as a child and much of my ''inner work' has been a response and working with the developmental trauma associated with that. I would say that this has enabled me to work somatically with early traumas within a relational psychotherapy. My journey has also involved dream work and I still use my dreams to know myself further and in the work of 'learning new ways to move forward' by understanding how the 'past is still present'! My orientation is, primarily, philosophical, relational exploratory therapy but- with my CBT training- the work can also follow a contemporary pragmatic science based - ACT- approach. I have now also trained in EMDR as I believe in continual learning within a broad philosophical outlook. I recognise that different people have different ways of making sense of their needs and, so, require different psychological therapy approaches. I am not integrative per se: I am a pluralist and will contract a therapy with you based upon your needs. I'm a mindfulness teacher and practitioner of 30 years

I work with

• Companies
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

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

• Existential Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Age-related Issues
• Anger Management
• Anorexia
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Chronic Illness
• Cultural Issues
• Depression
• Disability
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Employment Difficulties
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Infertility
• Mental Health Issues
• Obsessions
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Online Counselling
• Parents
• Phobias
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• Private Practice Issues
• Race Issues
• Relationships
• Sex Problems
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Supervision
• Telephone Counselling
• Terminal Illness
• Training
• Transgender
• Trauma
• Workplace Counselling