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I am currently seeing clients in person.

I am an accredited, experienced integrative counsellor offering weekly one-to-one counselling sessions. My style is empathic and sensitive, aiming to create a safe space for you to reflect and deepen understanding of what is going on in your life. Together, we can help you feel more present and empowered by increasing awareness of the part you play in co-creating your life. I see our work as a collaborative and creative process with the quality of our relationship at it's heart.

In my experience, most of our problems in living are in one way or another caused by how we relate to ourselves, others and to the wider environment; and how connected we feel with it. When connected, we feel more grounded and safe in the world, knowing our place in it and trusting the flow of life. It is the antidote to anxiety and depression that is so common in these uncertain times. I also welcome feelings of climate concern and work with people who seek to understand what is their unique contribution to the world in crisis.

I have ten years of experience offering short and long-term therapy. In the past I have worked for CPPD low cost therapy service; as a bereavement counsellor for Brent Bereavement Service and as a short-term service integrative counsellor at a leading mental health charity. My background is in teaching, working with children with special needs and alternative therapies.

My special interest is body/mind connection, neurodivergence and responses to the current climate and ecological crisis.

Therapy with me is:

• Collaborative - We are equal partners with a common goal but different roles. I bring my knowledge, experience and skills which enable me to have some insight and intuition about the nature of your concerns, but I won’t offer ready made answers or advice. This is for us to discover together. You use your own knowledge of yourself and a sense of what feels right for you. Therapy works best if you also bring your curiosity and open mind, willingness to engage with therapy and some patience with and trust in the process.
• Relational - The encounter between us will be an important source of information and material for our work. I aim to connect with you with authenticity and integrity, balancing personal engagement with a more observing stance.
• Transparent - I welcome your curiosity about what, how and why of therapy and am happy to discuss what we are doing at any point.
• Containing - I hold a strong therapeutic frame with clear boundaries for both of us which we agree on at the beginning. While this can feel restrictive and unnecessary in good times, it offers a solid container within which we can feel safe enough to go deep into our experience.
• Integrative - Therapy happens on different levels from holding a safe space to be heard and to reflect; to getting in touch with less familiar aspects of yourself; to finding a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. My training allows me to combine humanistic and psychodynamic approaches, while also using elements of CBT, mindfulness, body psychotherapy and transpersonal perspective.
• Staying with experience - In my view this is the most powerful tool for change and healing, and underpins everything that happens in therapy. I maintain ongoing regular mindfulness practice and bring this into sessions as a reliable way of reconnecting with our source of aliveness and deep knowing. My approach to therapy is based on the assumption that body and mind are fully interconnected.

I usually respond to enquiries within 24 hours. Please contact me by writing. I am often unable to answer phone calls.

After the first contact I will suggest we have a short phone or video call (free) or a full in-person consultation (charged at full fee) to discuss your concerns and whether I can help you. 

You will get a chance to tell me about your concerns and expectations; ask me questions and also get a feel of what it is like working with me. I might ask you some questions about your background and history but this will not be an assessment session. I will offer some suggestions about what I might be able to help you with and how. After the session, you will be free to decide in your own time whether you wish to continue and get back to me.