I am a Counselling Psychologist working with adults in London and online.

Over many years of clinical practice, I have spent time sitting with people as they talk — often for the first time — about experiences that shaped them long before they had language for them.

I have learned that meaningful change rarely comes from quick solutions, but from feeling understood. My work is not organised around symptom control or immediate solutions, but around creating the conditions in which a deeper understanding can develop, allowing something new to emerge.

In addition to my clinical training and experience, I bring a genuine interest in how people make sense of their lives — and how creating space for reflection can help them relate to themselves with greater clarity, less self-criticism, and more emotional flexibility. In time, this can support not only relief from distress, but also personal growth, resilience, and a stronger sense of wellbeing.

Professional Background and Experience

I have been working psychotherapeutically since 1999, and in private practice since 2006, while also holding roles in public and private mental health settings.

Alongside my clinical work, I have been involved in teaching, training, and supervising counselling psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors for over 15 years. I am an established trainer and supervisor, and have held senior academic and leadership roles within higher education.

Professional Registrations

  • Counselling Psychologist (HCPC registered)

  • Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow (BPS)

  • Senior Practitioner Member, Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy (ROPSIP)

  • Registered Supervisor, BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS)

  • Full Member, Division of Counselling Psychology (BPS)

How Therapy Works With Me

Therapy can become a place where there is more room to slow down, reflect, and develop a deeper, more supportive relationship with oneself, allowing change and growth to unfold at a sustainable pace.

It’s a shared process of exploration. We pay attention to patterns — in thoughts, emotions, relationships, and ways of coping — and gently ask where they came from and how they function now.

Some people arrive wanting tools or strategies; others find it difficult to talk about feelings at all. I work comfortably with both. We don’t rush emotional experiences, and we don’t force insight before it’s ready.

While many people come to therapy hoping to feel better, my work is not primarily organised around symptom reduction or relief that isn’t grounded in understanding what is happening. Symptoms are approached as meaningful signals rather than problems to eliminate. Instead of trying to remove them, we stay curious about what they may be responding to, what they might be protecting, and how they fit within the wider picture of your life.

Gradually, attention turns to familiar ways of responding that once made sense, and to how early relationships and experiences shaped those patterns. With greater clarity, there is often more space for choice — a loosening of reactions that once felt fixed or automatic — and the beginnings of a kinder, more grounded relationship with yourself.

When emotional processes begin to come into focus in this way, distress often changes in its own time — not because it has been pushed away, but because it is no longer needed in the same way. Change usually unfolds gradually, through this process rather than through effort or control.

For those who find it helpful to have some orientation:

My work is integrative and formulation-led, grounded in a relational way of understanding people. In practice, this means I draw from different psychological perspectives — including relational, psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive ways of thinking — in a way that fits you, instead of following a manual or rigid model.