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About me

I am an integrative and neurosomatic psychotherapist, which is a mouthful of a way for saying that the way I approach therapy is to integrate several schools of thought in psychotherapy with an understanding of the human nervous system and how it directly impacts our experience.

I have been working as a therapist for several years and I was drawn to it from my own therapy which I started in my late 20s. I use my personal experience alongside my extensive training in working with people with trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, chronic illnesses, isolation, identity crises, relationship problems, life transitions, belonging, meaning, and purpose.

My approach

The nervous system connects our brains, bodies, and environments鈥攁nd somehow this complex set of inseparable interconnections gives rise to our minds.

Whatever鈥檚 on our mind therefore also presents itself in the body (and brain) in some form, whether as stress, tension, panic, pain, or illness, or indeed as a sense of contentment, ease, and wellbeing. Likewise, our interior life tends to reflect back at us in our external environment鈥攊n our relationships, home, work and so on.

I see these myriad interdependent connections as patterns that make up your mind and sense of self. I therefore also see them as the many gateways onto the path of discovery and healing, which will come clear in therapy as you and I begin to form our own relationship with each other.

As we do so, our relationship becomes a 鈥渓ive-laboratory鈥� in which we identify and understand the patterns and processes of your mind 鈥� your habitual and unconscious ways of being, your default modes of thought, your body鈥檚 automatic responses 鈥� as they occur between us.

When you start therapy, many of your psychological patterns and processes will be unconscious at first, simply playing themselves out in your life in how you relate to yourself and others, and in how you expect others and the world to relate to you.

When these unconscious patterns and expectations are functioning well, there鈥檚 no problem to notice. But if you鈥檙e seeking therapy, it's often a consequence of some unconscious pattern that has become dysfunctional and not in harmony with life as it really is. Something significant is out of whack and the distress or stuckness you鈥檙e feeling is the body鈥檚 organic intelligence letting you know.

Since you can鈥檛 help but bring your psychological patterns with you into our relationship (because this is what we all do with each other all the time, it simply is the human condition), they鈥檒l play out in therapy too.

In psychotherapy, however, we slow down and examine your patterns as they're occurring in real time. Thus you begin to understand yourself, the nature of your mind, the habits, assumptions, expectations and default ways of being that you鈥檝e unconsciously adopted through your life which are inadvertently causing or contributing to the very distress and dysfunction you鈥檙e experiencing.

This is what I mean by calling the therapy relationship a 鈥渓ive-laboratory鈥�, which maybe sounds a little too clinical鈥揵ut much like a scientist undertaking experiments, gathering data, seeing what works and what doesn鈥檛, we might approach therapy in the spirit of experimentation and exploration too; with the aim of you gaining more information about yourself, a deeper self-understanding, seeing how and why you tend to do the things you do that aren't working in your life now. With this deeper understanding comes empathy, love and acceptance for who you really are鈥揳t heart and in your authenticity鈥揵eneath the maladaptive patterning, to give you the courage and agency to live your life not by default but in the ways you really want.

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 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.