How I can help
I am a specialist psychodynamic psychotherapist offering support for a range of emotional, psychological, interpersonal and behavioural issues. I work with mood related issues including anxiety, depression and low self-esteem to more complex, life-long and personality related issues. My specialist interests are in the areas of anxiety, depression, relationships, sexuality, trauma and abuse. Evidence-based psychotherapy is an effective treatment for a wide range of symptoms and types of distress. It offers a way of overcoming the barriers that limit our freedoms through personal development and enriched relationships. I am empathic to the unique ways we suffer as individuals and, from experience, understand how these struggles can become the start of a process serving new growth and freedom.
Areas of expertise
- Abuse
- Addiction
- ADHD
- Adoption
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Bereavement
- Boarding school syndrome
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Depression
- Difficulties in childhood
- Discrimination
- Gender
- Health anxiety
- Life Transitions
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Low Self-Confidence
- Men's Issues
- Mental health
- Narcissism
- Neurodiversity
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
- Perfectionism
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Race and racial identity
- Racism
- Relationship Issues
- Separation and Divorce
- Sex Problems
- Sexuality
- Shame
- Social anxiety
- Stress
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Transgender Issues
- Trauma
- Work-Related Stress
Works with
- Individuals
Availability
| Monday | 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 7:00 am – 9:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 9:00 am – 3:00 pm |
| Thursday | 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
| Friday | 7:00 am – 4:00 pm |
Training, qualifications & experience
PGDip in Psychodynamic Theory & Practice (University of Roehampton)
Member organisations
- BACP
- BPC
About me
I am a professional member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FPC), and also a clinical member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and the British Psychoanalytical Council (BPC).
Alongside my private practice, I am an honorary psychotherapist working in both the Trauma Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and in the Specialist Psychotherapy Service at the East London NHS Foundation Trust. In these specialist settings I offer individual therapy to patients with PTSD and complex trauma presentations and group therapy.
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