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My hours are generally 9am-6pm Monday-Friday.  I have some evening availability mid-week.

I am a qualified Cognitive Analytic Therapist (www.acat.me.uk) (2016). I love this form of therapy: it is an integrative, democratic and very practical synthesis of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches.

Sometimes though, words are either not enough or simply too much.  Exploring how to work  beyond words led me to  bereavement work, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy  and more recently to Internal Family Systems Therapy. I very much value working in an embodied way with the felt senses and I strongly believe that every one of us has the capacity for healing and better living.

I hold a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (https://www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/about.html) L1 qualification in the treatment of trauma (2019)  and an IFS (https://ifs-institute.com/about-us) L1 qualification (2024). 

For 10 years I provided 1-1 support for clients of all ages through Cruse Bereavement Care, Richmond, as well as group facilitation for adult bereavement support groups. I also supervised for Cruse and for the joint Cruse/Samaritans 'Facing the Future' project for those bereaved through suicide.

I offer sessions online via Zoom or face to face from my home in SW London.

I enjoy working on relationship issues, self-image and identity, or issues around anxiety and loss, whether through bereavement, relationship changes, redundancy or  retirement. Accompanying people at times of their lives when their normal support and communication systems are no longer effective and working out with them how to meet these challenges is a privilege.

I will generally suggest an initial session (50 minutes, payable at the same £70 rate as subsequent sessions).  This is to give both of us more of an idea of the main issues you'd like to work on and to see if we feel we will be able to work well together.