I’m a senior psychotherapist with more than 20 years’ experience.
Many of the people I work with are highly capable and successful. From the outside, their lives look enviable. Yet privately they may be navigating complex pressures, including demanding careers, difficult relationships, major decisions, or periods of personal transition.
Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked in advertising and later ran my own hospitality business in Soho.
That experience gives me a grounded understanding of the realities of professional life. There are pressures, responsibilities and personal challenges that often sit behind outward success and I’ve experienced them myself.
What I can help you with
You may already know something needs to shift. In a warm, practical and collaborative way, we can:
- Untangle situations that feel complicated or overwhelming.
- Step back from the detail and see the bigger picture.
- Reflect on patterns, decisions and relationships.
- Explore new ways of responding to challenges.
- Strengthen your inner resources and resilience.
- Set and maintain healthy boundaries.
- Navigate or leave difficult relationships.
- Manage anxiety, stress and periods of uncertainty.
- Reconcile with past experiences.
- Move forward with greater confidence and purpose.
How clients experience the work
Clients variously describe me as their psychotherapist, counsellor, coach or mentor.
What they often value most is having a trusted, experienced person in their corner. Someone who understands the realities of both professional pressure and personal complexity.
In our work together you will find:
- A trusted sounding board for important decisions.
- An experienced perspective on both business and personal life.
- A place where you can speak openly and think freely.
- A relationship grounded in absolute confidentiality and discretion.
- A depth of perspective shaped by real human experience, not an algorithm.
Why experience matters
When you are facing significant decisions or emotional challenges, experience matters.
Over two decades of practice, alongside my earlier career in business, I have worked with people navigating:
- Demanding professional careers.
- Entrepreneurial pressures and leadership responsibilities.
- Complex family dynamics.
- Wealth and financial transitions.
- Divorce and relationship breakdown.
- Loss and grief.
- Questions of identity, meaning and direction.
This breadth of experience allows us to move beyond the surface of a problem and understand what is really going on beneath it.
What is the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy?
Both are talking therapies but counselling generally is concerned with a specific, contemporary issue such as bereavement, divorce or redundancy. Psychotherapy deals with longer standing issues and patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour. It is broader in scope and sometimes longer in duration but there are common characteristics between the two practices.
What is the difference between Psychiatry and Psychotherapy?
Psychiatry is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and frequently involves drug therapy combined with talking therapy. Psychotherapy is talking therapy.
Is Psychotherapy the same as Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is the same as Psychotherapy in as much as they are both types of talking therapy. Psychoanalysis, as created by Freud, predates psychotherapeutic systems such as Humanistic, Integrative, Existential, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, and focuses on the principle that much distress has been caused by events in early life of which we are no longer aware. Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, which is my practice, has its focus more on the here and now and the past is addressed only if it is relevant to you.
What type of Psychotherapy do you practise?
I practise Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, an approach that does justice to the whole person: mind, body, emotions and spirit. It represents a broad range of psychotherapeutic methods and each method recognises the self-healing capacities of the client. My belief is that the relationship between client and therapist is crucial and therapy should be a humanising process for both parties. Integrity, acceptance, healthy contact and communication are the basis of an authentic meeting of equals in the therapeutic relationship.
What are your qualifications?
I am a registered Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapist and an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy and Coaching Division. I have completed further postgraduate training in Solution Focused Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Family Constellations, trauma-informed approaches and Somatic Experiencing.
Where did you train as a therapist?
Spectrum, a centre for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy in London. Spectrum is one of the most established and renowned training organisations in the world, committed to the development of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
You Are Not Alone in This
Whatever you are facing, it helps to know that others have been here too.
These are some of the issues I regularly work with. Each link explains how therapy can help.
Credentials & Experience
- Practising since 2004
- BACP Accredited Member
- Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapist
A space to think clearly again
Trying to navigate life’s challenges alone can lead to overthinking, procrastination and a sense of paralysis.
Working with an empathetic and experienced psychotherapist allows you to step back, gain perspective and move forward in a way that feels considered and right for you.
When you’re ready to talk, I would be glad to hear from you.