How I can help
I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and MBT therapist who works both in the NHS and in private practice. In the NHS I work as a senior clinician in both a complex emotional needs pathway and within a perinatal mental health team. In my private practice I offer individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adults from once a week or more frequently, both online and in person. I currently only have vacancies for in person therapy. I also offer parent infant work, which supports people in their transition to parenthood, either pre or post childbirth. After birth this involves working with parents and babies together until the children are two years of age. In conjunction with experienced colleagues, I offer a private Mentalisation Based Therapy programme. This involves weekly individual sessions alongside a weekly online therapy group. This is suitable for people struggling with complex interpersonal difficulties and difficulties regulating their emotions, potentially including impulsivity, anger, self-harm and suicidality. I have a particular interest in supporting people within the LGBTQ+ community. I am also interested in the way that societal pressures and systemic power structures influence our experience of ourselves and our mental health. Issues of inequality, racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia continue to shape the world in which we live. I aim to offer an inclusive space to everyone I work with, to enable them to make sense of how these influences might impact their individual emotional lives.
Areas of expertise
- Abortion
- Adoption
- Adoption counselling for adults
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Attachment
- Attachment disorder
- Autism
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Baby loss
- Bereavement
- Bipolar Disorder
- Birth Trauma
- Blended family
- Boarding school syndrome
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Cancer
- Child Related Issues
- Childless not by choice
- Climate and eco-anxiety
- Codependency
- Depression
- Difficulties in childhood
- Disabilities
- Discrimination
- Dissociation
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gender
- Gender Dysphoria
- Grief
- Health anxiety
- High sensitivity
- Indentity Issues
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBTQ+ counselling
- LGBTQ+ Issues
- Loneliness
- Loss
- Miscarriage
- Narcissism
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Older people's counselling
- Panic Attacks
- Perinatal Anxiety
- Personality Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Shame
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Transgender Issues
Works with
- Individuals
- Young Adults 18-25
Availability
| Tuesday | 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
|---|---|
| Wednesday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Thursday | 8:00 am – 12:00 pm |
| Friday | 8:00 am – 1:00 pm |
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and registered mentalisation based therapist. Before training as a psychotherapist I worked as a social worker with children and families. I am registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council, the Northern Ireland Psychoanalytic Society and Social Work England. I trained with the British Psychotherapy Foundation and with the Anna Freud Centre. My clinical experience includes working for the Anna Freud Centre, and several NHS teams. I currently lead on Mentalisation based therapy for people with complex emotional needs across Central and North West London, and I co-lead the mentalisation based therapy at the Halliwick Unit in North East London.
Member organisations
- BPC
About me
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