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 individual therapy
I’ve worked in private practice with individuals facing a wide range of emotional challenges, including work-related stress, relationship difficulties, and the complex, often painful, questions that arise around race, identity, and belonging. My approach is psychoanalytic and relational, grounded in contemporary thinking that attends closely to the unconscious dynamics that shape how we feel, relate, and respond in everyday life. I offer an open, thoughtful, and exploratory space where difficult or confusing experiences can be spoken about at your own pace. Together we can begin to make sense of recurring emotional patterns, internal conflicts, and long-standing difficulties that may not yet be fully understood. This process can open up new ways of relating to yourself and others, allowing meaningful and lasting change to take root.
Our first individual session
Starting therapy can feel like a big step. You may feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. Your first session offers a calm, reflective space to speak freely, without pressure to have it all figured out. With over 30 years’ experience, I listen with care to both what is said and what may lie beneath, attending to unconscious patterns, emotional tone, and lived experience. My psychoanalytic and relational approach creates room to explore longstanding difficulties, questions of identity, race, and belonging, or the emotional impact of recent events. This session is also a chance to think together about what kind of support you need and whether ongoing therapy feels right. We begin from where you are.
