About me
I’m a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience working with emotional distress, burnout, and complex questions around race, identity, and belonging. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck in patterns, or struggling with relationships, work, or a sense of who you are, I offer a calm, reflective space to explore what’s going on. My approach is grounded in contemporary psychoanalysis, with attention to unconscious processes and lived experience, opening the way for lasting change. Being deeply listened to in this way can help shift long-standing difficulties and bring new understanding. Alongside my clinical work, I teach and supervise within leading UK psychotherapy organisations and have contributed to the development of psychotherapy training.
My approach to couples therapy
I work with couples navigating conflict, distance, infidelity, life transitions, or the pain of feeling unseen or misunderstood. My psychoanalytic and relational approach explores how unconscious dynamics shape emotional life and the ways partners relate, react, and repeat familiar patterns. I offer a calm, reflective space where both partners can begin to make sense of stuck or painful dynamics, unspoken needs, and the deeper histories each brings to the relationship. This includes attention to how race, identity, culture, and power may be playing out within and around the couple’s experience. Whether you are in crisis, at a crossroads, or simply wanting to deepen understanding, couples therapy can offer a vital opportunity to listen differently, speak more freely, and move toward greater connection.
Our first couples session
Your first couples session offers a calm, supportive space to begin exploring what’s happening between you. You may be struggling with conflict, distance, communication issues, or questions of trust and connection. I listen with care to both partners, attending to spoken concerns as well as underlying emotional dynamics. My psychoanalytic and relational approach helps uncover patterns shaped by past experience, unspoken needs, and the complexities of identity. This initial meeting is a chance for each of you to be heard, reflect on your relationship, and consider whether ongoing work together feels right.
