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I offer therapy sessions across the week in the daytimes and evenings. My current availability is concentrated on Monday mornings (online), Thursday mornings and afternoons (London Bridge/online), and Friday mornings and afternoons (Peckham/online). I may be able to offer alternative slots. 

Hello, and welcome to my page. If you are facing difficulties in life, then I hope to be of therapeutic support and intervention. I am attentive to each person's unique experience of the world, including anxieties, frustrations, senses of loss, isolation, being misunderstood, unhappiness, or searching for something more. I have supported people facing various challenges from inner states to couple communication to life transitions and changes. Through an empathic and analytical approach, I provide a space and a relationship to explore how you are feeling and to arrive at new realisations and ways of being.

My therapy training is theoretically integrative, involving psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioural approaches. Psychodynamic therapy explores how personalities and behaviour are influenced by experiences and attachments earlier in life and brings unconscious drives and defences into awareness. Humanistic therapy helps people to grapple with their existence, from identities, aspirations, self-knowledge, and growth, to our mortality and limitations. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) identifies and challenges unhelpful thought patterns and beliefs that may adversely affect how we experience and perceive the world. I draw variously upon such ideas, though I am mostly interested in you and what you have to say.

I work with people individually and as couples and families (adult). In relational therapy, I ensure that all parties feel heard and strive to cultivate mutual respect and healthy communication. By having meaningful conversations, including constructive arguments, relational therapy can empower all parties with greater clarity about who they are, individually and collectively, and where they are going in life. As your therapist, I will facilitate learning about each other’s worlds and how to avoid unhelpful patterns of behaviour.

My therapeutic work is informed by ongoing research and university teaching as an anthropologist. I am sensitive to how people’s lives are shaped by family, culture, psychology, and society and to the difficulties that people face in love, work, life, and death. I currently work at the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action at SOAS, University of London, developing educational content on the intersection of anthropology and mental health. At the University of Oxford, I teach a course, ‘What makes life meaningful? Perspectives from anthropology, and I am developing a new course, ‘Therapy as anthropology: engagements with the human condition’.

In my therapeutic practice, as well as research, teaching, and personal therapy, I continually explore the existential question, as put by Amartya Sen, 'ultimately, the focus has to be on what life we lead and what we can and cannot do, can and cannot be'. Influenced by humanistic approaches to psychotherapy, I err towards a hopeful and optimistic approach to human potential, even as I grapple each day with the struggles of life.  

Please write to me and we can arrange a free telephone consultation. For couples or families, this will be a call with each of you. This call is an opportunity for you to share some of what you hope to explore therapeutically. We can then arrange the first therapy session at the earliest convenience. Alternatively, we can communicate via email and directly arrange an initial session.