I offer face-to-face counselling in Central London (Farringdon/Barbican area), including both short-term (6-12 sessions) and longer-term counselling. In long-term work, the number of sessions is open-ended but with regular check-ins to ensure that the work remains relevant to your needs. I also provide online counselling. 

Counselling is a collaboration, in which we explore your feelings, values, choices, and assumptions, how you experience yourself and how you relate to others. Considering alternative perspectives and exploring our experiences in collaboration with another person allows us to reconnect with who we really are and create the conditions for growth.

We each have our own unique story including our family, social and cultural context. Each of us has learned to adapt to the world we found ourselves in. Sometimes it works, sometimes we get stuck and the way we have lived our lives in the past no longer feels right. Within us, we have the capacity to find answers to the things that challenge us; to develop the insight we need to make the right choices. 

Committing to counselling is a big step for anyone. My role is to support you in addressing the issues that brought you to counselling. To do this, I attend to your way of being in the world, your experience.

Your comfort is important. For counselling to help, it must be possible for people to share things that are deeply sensitive to them. If you are not comfortable to share, then there can be no progress. 

To support that, I am committed to providing a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment for these conversations. Trust is key to allowing a respectful exploration of your lived experience. Exploration can be uncomfortable but it is by questioning what we think we know about ourselves that insight emerges about our internal processes and narratives. For these reasons, it’s important that you define the direction and pace of the work. Our work is led by your needs. 

 I also recognize that, alongside space for reflection, sometimes what my clients need is very practical support, guidance and education. 

There are many different types of talking therapy. I’m an integrative counsellor. An integrative approach means that resources from different areas of psychotherapy can be drawn on depending on your needs. Within the wide range of psychotherapies that exist, my own approach is based on the humanistic tradition, with a strong influence from existential and attachment theory. I’d be happy to explain more about my approach.