I’m an Existential-Analytic Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with a long-standing connection to creative life. Before training as a therapist, I spent around 20 years working in art schools, supporting creativity across the whole arc, from undergraduate study through to doctoral work. As part of my counselling training, I worked as a student counsellor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
My training draws on several traditions: phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and person-centred therapy. What they share, for me, is a refusal to move too quickly to interpretation. Phenomenology and existentialism keep me close to how something is actually experienced, and to the larger questions, freedom, meaning, mortality, choice, that tend to sit underneath whatever brings someone to therapy in the first place. Psychoanalysis adds a way of thinking about what isn’t yet available to conscious awareness, the patterns formed early and repeated without quite being seen. Person-centred therapy holds all of it together by insisting that your own experience, not a diagnosis or a theory about you, is where the work has to start.
My way of working begins by acknowledging the uniqueness of each person’s experience, especially in their relationships with others. From there, I draw on a wide range of ideas, from art and popular culture to established theory, to help make sense of that experience and find greater clarity.
My practice is LGBTQI+ affirming and kink/CNM-aware. I have specialist training in psychosexual therapy and work with people across a wide range of relationship structures and identities.
Together, we’ll look closely at your life story, your relationships, and your particular way of being, to understand what’s keeping old patterns in place, and to build more freedom and choice into how you live.
You’re welcome to book an initial consultation here.