About me

I am a fully qualified, BACP Registered and Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist.

Since completing my core training in 2007 I have undergone much training in understanding the nervous system and its place in our lives (often called the fight-flight-freeze response). I have completed many trainings in this area including Dr Gabor Maté's year-long Compassionate Inquiry approach in 2024.

Experience

I have worked for nearly two decades in settings including healthcare (private and NHS), education, community and workplace.

I worked with children and young people for five years where I developed and delivered a one-to-one gardening therapy service for hard-to-engage young people.

For the past 15 years I have been working in private practice.

On a personal note, before becoming a therapist I was a musician/ producer in the pop/recording world for many years before choosing a new career path in mental health. I now enjoy playing piano in a salsa big band.

I also love the connection that being in nature brings and enjoy daily walks with my dog.

My approach

I work with people who are:

- Feeling overwhelmed;
- Finding it difficult to make decisions;
- Worried they will let others down;
- Not wanting to be a burden on their friends/family.

I help people to:

- Feel heard and seen;
- Understand unhelpful coping strategies formed in the past, and learn how to work with them in the present;
- Ask confidently and assertively for what they need;
- Resolve conflict and make decisions;
- Identify resources to support you in becoming the person you want to be.

The space I offer is like an extra room in the mind - a quiet, private and non-judgemental space, with a safe 'other' present, where you can hear yourself clearly and think more productively. It is a place where you can air your thorny questions and unpack difficult dilemmas.

Over time, you begin to find ways to resolve your difficulties and become more authentic in your way of being in the world.

The way I work is that I don't diagnose or give advice, but I go with what you bring, listening and paying attention to the way you see and feel about things. I walk along beside you to help you find your own best answer.

Woven into my way of working is the Compassionate Inquiry approach, a gentle but structured way of holding a person who has experienced trauma in their lives, that may have become 'stuck' in the nervous system (the 'fight or flight' response).

Specialties

Methodologies

Location

12 Broxholm Road, London SE27 0LZ

Education

Qualifications & designations

HPD in Counselling (Person Centred Approach), 2007
Existential Therapy module, 2007
Registered Member, BACP, 2012 (registered member number 26573)
BACP Accreditation, 2012
Multiple short courses on body-oriented and somatic approaches to working with trauma, 2007-ongoing
Compassionate Inquiry year-long training, 2024