I work relationally and with close attention to the particular way each person experiences their life. I don’t begin with a diagnosis or a fixed idea of what therapy should look like. Instead, we start with what is happening for you now and try to understand it in the context of your relationships, history, choices and circumstances.

Therapy with me is primarily conversational. I am interested in patterns that repeat, in the assumptions we carry about ourselves and others, and in the parts of experience that can be difficult to put into words. I may sometimes draw on ideas from psychotherapy, philosophy, art or popular culture when they help us make sense of something more clearly.

My aim is not to tell you how you should live, but to help you understand what may be keeping old patterns in place and what possibilities are genuinely available to you now.

My background

Before training as a therapist, I spent around 20 years working in art schools, supporting creative practice from undergraduate study through to doctoral research.

My counselling experience has included work with people affected by homelessness and substance use, counselling at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and providing support for frontline NHS staff during the COVID pandemic.

This background means that I am particularly familiar with the pressures surrounding creative work, academic life, performance, professional identity and periods when a once-important sense of direction begins to change.

How I think about therapy

My training draws on phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis and person-centred therapy.

Phenomenology and existential thought encourage me to stay close to how life is actually experienced, while also taking seriously questions of freedom, responsibility, uncertainty, mortality, meaning and choice.

Psychoanalytic thinking offers a way of understanding patterns formed earlier in life that may continue to shape relationships and behaviour without being fully visible.

Person-centred therapy keeps the work grounded in your own experience rather than in a theory imposed upon you.

I use these traditions flexibly rather than as a formula. What matters is whether an idea helps us understand your experience more clearly.

Psychosexual and relationship work

I have specialist training in psychosexual therapy and in working with couples and relationships.

My practice is LGBTQI+ affirming, kink-aware and consensual non-monogamy (CNM) aware. I work with people across a wide range of identities, sexualities and relationship structures.

Together, we can look closely at your life story, relationships and particular way of being, with the aim of creating greater freedom and choice in how you live.

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