Who am I
Barrister turned therapist, now with 15 years experience as a relational, attachment-based psychotherapist.
I am accredited by the UK’s National Counselling & Psychotherapy Service, registered with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and a graduate member of the British Psychological Society.
My specialisms are addiction, sexual abuse, relationship diversities and climate anxiety. I offer one-to-one therapy via the internet. In London, I deliver therapy walking outdoors in Regent’s Park and when in Vienna, I can offer something similar.
Did you know…
One hundred years of research into what works has consistently shown that other than your readiness for therapy, the key ingredient will be the strength and quality of the relationship between us.
My approach
I don’t believe mental health can be understood in the way physical health is understood as a cause-and-effect rational system. We are ‘feeling’ people who think, not ‘thinking’ people who feel. Our interior worlds are emotional and context-dependent. They respond to the relationships we have with all sorts of external influences like people and places, cultures and belief systems, and nature. With 80 billion interconnected cells the human brain is literally the most complex thing in the known universe, much too complicated to be understood mechanistically. Life has meaning beyond a series of inputs and outputs. I believe the tendency to medicalise mental health is attractive but simplistic. I’d even put it as high as a category error. We are shaped by relationships and everyone’s experience is different. People need to be understood, to feel seen and to feel heard.
The healing is in the relationship.
These things are important to me…
Friends
Social justice
I am proudly European
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Since 2021, I’ve acted on 6 London stages
My free time is taken up with climate activism
I’ve done three Camino de Santiago walks so far
I’m an internationalist with personal connections to Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Turkey, Singapore, Pakistan and I’ve worked abroad in Malaysia and Sudan
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London-based psychotherapist
MSc Psychology
MA Cantab
PG Dip Creative Health
PG Dip International Development
BA Law
