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I currently have availability for new clients. Please get in touch for more information.

Please also note my fees range from 拢75-拢90 depending on location and whether we meet online or in person. 

About me

I am an integrative psychotherapist experienced in working with adult clients, particularly (but by no means exclusively) men, facing a wide range of challenges.

How I work

I work with people who are experiencing the difficulties in living, stemming from either acute or complex trauma, who struggle with anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic illness, and relationship issues. As an integrative psychotherapist I draw on several methods:

Relational: our psychological development and health is directly tied to the quality of the relationships we have with others. As such the therapeutic relationship is held sacred and secure, allowing us to collaboratively look at relationship patterns, emotional needs, and communication styles as they come up in the therapeutic relationship itself.

Psychodynamic: a large part of the mind is made up of unconscious patterns and templates which influence how we think, feel, sense and act. These unconscious patterns are usually laid down in the first years of life. Therapy aims to bring what is unconscious into conscious awareness to then create greater freedom to live more intentionally and authentically now.

Humanistic: the human organism has an innate tendency towards health and self-actualisation, and therapy focuses on creating the necessary conditions for these natural processes to occur.

Neurosomatic: the nervous system creates our conscious experience through a complex interconnection of brain, body and mind. Therapy looks at how we carry our psychological pain in these three channels.

Cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness: therapy helps to examine and challenge our core unconscious assumptions about ourselves and the world, using mindfulness as the means of subjective examination.

Above and beyond any one method or combination of methods, I see therapy as a dual process of shedding and cultivating.

By shedding I mean removing and letting go of, in psychotherapy terminology, our 鈥渇alse self鈥� presentation: that defensive, self-protective part of ourselves we鈥檝e grown to believe is the only acceptable version.

Much of what makes up the 鈥渇alse self鈥� is unconscious 鈥� we鈥檝e been enacting its repertoire of beliefs and behaviours for so long it鈥檚 become second nature 鈥� and so the purpose of therapy here is to help the person I work with become more conscious of it.

This is a process of deep learning. Understanding which of our habitual behaviours are 鈥渇alse-self鈥� adaptations can be powerfully illuminating: These adaptations, once adopted at a young age as a necessary solution to the challenge of getting our needs met at that time, are often no longer fit for purpose in adult life, and are usually now the very cause of the anxiety, addiction, depression, and other distresses, we seek therapy for.

Often in therapy, when we become more conscious of our 鈥渇alse self鈥� patterns, we can then be left with questions like, "What now?鈥�, Who am I really?鈥�, 鈥淗ow do I go about things now?鈥� These questions and others like them relate to what I see as the process of cultivating: cultivating what was always already there beneath the false self presentation, which is your own unique, ordinary human nature with its own set of ordinary human needs.

In my experience, many people therefore come to therapy with the expectation that the point is to perfect themselves, to become more and more 鈥渁cceptable鈥�. 

But the point of therapy is not to perfect ourselves, it is to understand and accept ourselves as we really are beneath the false self exterior, and to develop more effective, healthy ways of handling the needs, fears, feelings, desires and vulnerabilities that come from this innermost, essentially valid, part of ourselves.

What you can expect from the first session(s)

In the first session we'll usually focus on what's bringing you to therapy in the first place, the main issue you're coming for, and what you'd like from therapy. I'll also begin taking a detailed history of your life so that I can start to get to know who you are as a person, the facts of your life that you bring with you and how these may connect to your reason for coming. 

This is all so that I can clearly understand what you're looking for, that we have a clear direction of travel from the start, and, crucially, to make sure I'm the right therapist for you. Likewise, it gives you a chance to see how you feel with me, what it's like working with me.

This can often take more than one session and I see it as an essential step -- to assess whether I'm the right therapist for your specific needs based on your unique life and experience, and to ensure you feel comfortable working with me.  

I offer one-to-one sessions in person in East Dulwich/Peckham Rye; and in Brockley; and online.

My credentials

2016-2017: 1 year Certificate in Psychotherapy & Counselling at Regent's University

2021-2023: 2 year PGDip in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy at NAOS Institute

2024-2025: 2 year PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practise in Psychotherapy & Counselling at The Minster Centre

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (M糖心官网) and I am working towards senior accreditation with the 糖心官网. I adhere to the 糖心官网's ethical framework for good practise.

I work from The Sunflower Centre on Thursday afternoons. I work from East Dulwich/Peckham Rye and Online at other times. Please contact me for more details.

About me

I am an integrative psychotherapist experienced in working with adult clients, particularly (but by no means exclusively) men, facing a wide range of challenges.

How I work

I work with people who are experiencing the difficulties in living, stemming from either acute or complex trauma, who struggle with anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic illness, and relationship issues. As an integrative psychotherapist I draw on several methods:

Relational: our psychological development and health is directly tied to the quality of the relationships we have with others. As such the therapeutic relationship is held sacred and secure, allowing us to collaboratively look at relationship patterns, emotional needs, and communication styles as they come up in the therapeutic relationship itself.

Psychodynamic: a large part of the mind is made up of unconscious patterns and templates which influence how we think, feel, sense and act. These unconscious patterns are usually laid down in the first years of life. Therapy aims to bring what is unconscious into conscious awareness to then create greater freedom to live more intentionally and authentically now.

Humanistic: the human organism has an innate tendency towards health and self-actualisation, and therapy focuses on creating the necessary conditions for these natural processes to occur.

Neurosomatic: the nervous system creates our conscious experience through a complex interconnection of brain, body and mind. Therapy looks at how we carry our psychological pain in these three channels.

Cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness: therapy helps to examine and challenge our core unconscious assumptions about ourselves and the world, using mindfulness as the means of subjective examination.

Above and beyond any one method or combination of methods, I see therapy as a dual process of shedding and cultivating.

By shedding I mean removing and letting go of, in psychotherapy terminology, our 鈥渇alse self鈥� presentation: that defensive, self-protective part of ourselves we鈥檝e grown to believe is the only acceptable version.

Much of what makes up the 鈥渇alse self鈥� is unconscious 鈥� we鈥檝e been enacting its repertoire of beliefs and behaviours for so long it鈥檚 become second nature 鈥� and so the purpose of therapy here is to help the person I work with become more conscious of it.

This is a process of deep learning. Understanding which of our habitual behaviours are 鈥渇alse-self鈥� adaptations can be powerfully illuminating: These adaptations, once adopted at a young age as a necessary solution to the challenge of getting our needs met at that time, are often no longer fit for purpose in adult life, and are usually now the very cause of the anxiety, addiction, depression, and other distresses, we seek therapy for.

Often in therapy, when we become more conscious of our 鈥渇alse self鈥� patterns, we can then be left with questions like, "What now?鈥�, Who am I really?鈥�, 鈥淗ow do I go about things now?鈥� These questions and others like them relate to what I see as the process of cultivating: cultivating what was always already there beneath the false self presentation, which is your own unique, ordinary human nature with its own set of ordinary human needs.

In my experience, many people therefore come to therapy with the expectation that the point is to perfect themselves, to become more and more 鈥渁cceptable鈥�.

But the point of therapy is not to perfect ourselves, it is to understand and accept ourselves as we really are beneath the false self exterior, and to develop more effective, healthy ways of handling the needs, fears, feelings, desires and vulnerabilities that come from this innermost, essentially valid, part of ourselves.

What you can expect from the first session(s)

In the first session we'll usually focus on what's bringing you to therapy in the first place, the main issue you're coming for, and what you'd like from therapy. I'll also begin taking a detailed history of your life so that I can start to get to know who you are as a person, the facts of your life that you bring with you and how these may connect to your reason for coming.

This is all so that I can clearly understand what you're looking for, that we have a clear direction of travel from the start, and, crucially, to make sure I'm the right therapist for you. Likewise, it gives you a chance to see how you feel with me, what it's like working with me.

This can often take more than one session and I see it as an essential step -- to assess whether I'm the right therapist for your specific needs based on your unique life and experience, and to ensure you feel comfortable working with me.

I offer one-to-one sessions in person in Brockley; in East Dulwich/Peckham Rye; and online.

My credentials

2016-2017: 1 year Certificate in Psychotherapy & Counselling at Regent's University

2021-2023: 2 year PGDip in Neurosomatic Psychotherapy at NAOS Institute

2024-2025: 2 year PGDip in Advanced Clinical Practise in Psychotherapy & Counselling at The Minster Centre

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (M糖心官网) and I am working towards senior accreditation with the 糖心官网. I adhere to the 糖心官网's ethical framework for good practise.