My practice was established in 2008, and is based in South East London in SE15, just at the cusp of where Peckham, Nunhead and New Cross Gate meet. At the bottom of Telegraph Hill with its beautiful view of London, the wilderness within the urban is important to me.

My theoretical background is informed by the developmental object relations schools of Winnicott, Bion and Klein that underpinned my original training as an art psychotherapist, and more recently the analytical psychology of Carl Jung with which I have been deeply immersed for the last 5 years as an advanced candidate with The Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists.

Before working in private practice, I worked extensively in the public sector, with previous posts including Senior Art Therapist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and other oncology and palliative care settings. I established psychotherapy departments in Pupil Referral Units across the borough for Southwark Children’s Services, and also worked extensively with adults in both acute and out-patient NHS mental health settings. I have been a training therapist for student psychotherapists and a supervisor for qualified therapists and other professionals in the caring fields.

My approach to therapy is primarily led by the needs of each individual I work with. Each of us is unique and the emphasis is on facilitating you to become more fully and authentically yourself. The work is both regressive (looking backwards through ones life to understand more fully how early experiences may be limiting one now) and prospective (developing a more conscious relationship to the often not-yet-known parts of oneself that long to be lived). Although it is an honour to journey through the terrain with each person I work with, I am particularly drawn to working with those struggling with acute conditions, trauma and states of crisis.

Prior to working as a psychotherapist I worked in the arts, and this creative and sometimes difficult journey has been formative in my psychotherapy approach. My making journeys with me to this day, and somehow remains focused on ideas of the in-between, liminal states of transition and the great strength to be found in fragility.