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After completing my degree in 1992, and working at a series of uninspiring jobs, I began to build an interest in mental health and wellbeing, and enrolled on a one-year foundation course in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents College, London.

This introduction motivated me to train for a further four years at The Bowlby Centre, London. During this time I developed a deeper understanding of how secure and supportive relationships in childhood help us develop a sense of who we are, and how the absence of that security can shape the struggles we face as adults.

I now have over twenty-five years' experience working with individuals and couples from many different backgrounds, ages, and with varied reasons for seeking therapy — including anxiety and phobias, depression, addiction, loss and bereavement, the impact of trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting difficulties, self-harming, and eating disorders.

My work is also informed by Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), which brings a focused, experience-near way of helping people recognise and work through the anxieties and defences that can keep them from feeling their true emotions, and by a deep understanding of neurodiversity, so that therapy is shaped around how each person actually experiences and processes the world.

As well as my therapeutic work with individuals and couples, I am a supervisor to psychotherapists from a range of modalities. Through my own personal therapeutic journey, both before and during training, I am passionate about what psychotherapy can offer and the changes it can bring about.