I have more than 20 years post-qualification experience providing effective therapy for adults experiencing psychological and mental health difficulties both in the NHS and private practice.
Book a sessionSince qualifying in 2002 I have spent my career working with adults experiencing emotional distress. During my 20 year career in the NHS I worked in community mental health teams providing therapy for people with severe and complex mental health difficulties and diagnosis. For the last 18 years I have also had a small private practice working with less severe presentations. As such I am experienced at working with a wide range of problems including anxiety and panic, low self esteem and confidence, loss and bereavement, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), difficulties resulting from childhood abuse and neglect (C-PTSD), self destructive or harming behaviours, trauma and dissociation, stress related difficulties, loss of purpose and meaning, depression, work and relationship difficulties, anger problems, difficult life changes, phobia's, and severe mental health diagnosis. I was fortunate that the university where I trained encouraged a breadth and depth of thinking about people, their difficulties and healing which matched my own curiosity of all aspects of human experience. As such I draw upon many different ideas to inform my work including attachment, psychodynamic, humanistic, Jungian, schema-focused and systemic theories and approaches. I also use CBT, mindfulness and DBT tools to help relieve symptoms and increase coping skills as required. I have further training in the foundations of psychosynthesis psychotherapy which includes the transpersonal in its understanding of distress, growth and connection. This academic knowledge has been embedded with a life long commitment to my own journey of personal growth as well as learning from my clients. Whether it is that you require a directive symptom focused/coping approach, guiding through your journey of trauma healing, or something in-between then I seek to provide an effective integrative approach that fits with your individual difficulties, ways of working and hopes for the outcome of therapy.