Individual therapy offers a confidential, thoughtful space to make sense of what you are experiencing and to find a way forward. People come for many reasons — anxiety, depression, the effects of trauma, difficulties in relationships, a loss of direction, or longstanding patterns that have become hard to live with.

Rather than applying a single fixed technique, I work in a way that is tailored to you, drawing on psychoanalytic and integrative approaches developed over more than two decades of clinical practice. I usually work in an open-ended way (as opposed to a fixed number of sessions), allowing the work to unfold at the pace that suits you, and we review together how things are going as we go.

Relationships can come under strain for all sorts of reasons — the arrival or growing demands of a family, communication that has broken down, recurring conflict, the aftermath of a betrayal of trust, or simply a sense of having grown apart. Couples therapy offers a space in which both partners can be heard, and in which the patterns that keep causing difficulty can be understood and changed.

My work with couples is informed by systemic and psychoanalytic thinking and by many years of clinical experience, including running a dedicated outpatient family therapy clinic. I aim to provide a balanced, even-handed space — one in which each partner feels respected, and in which honest and difficult conversations can take place thoughtfully.

When difficulties affect a whole family — whether between partners and children, across generations, or through a period of crisis, illness or change — it can help to work with the family as a whole rather than with one person alone. Family therapy looks at the relationships and patterns within a family, and at how everyone can be supported to understand one another and to forge better family relationships.

I have extensive experience in working with families, having led a weekly outpatient family therapy clinic for fifteen years and trained other clinicians in this approach. Sessions are arranged to suit the family taking part, and who takes part can change over time as the work develops.

There is something distinctive about working in a group. Many of the difficulties that bring people to therapy — feeling isolated, struggling in relationships, repeating patterns we don't fully understand — come alive, and can be understood and worked through, in the presence of others. A group offers something individual work cannot: the chance to see yourself through others' eyes, to give and receive honestly, and to discover that you are not alone in what you carry.

I am grateful for the many years of running therapeutic groups with inpatients and outpatients at a specialist psychiatric hospital.

Groups are conducted online by secure video, and members commit to attending regularly, as the consistency of the group is part of what makes the work possible.

I am not currently running an open group, and new groups form gradually. A group can only begin once enough people who would suit it have come forward, and everyone joining a group first meets with me individually for an initial consultation, so that we can think together about whether group therapy is right for you and which group would fit. If group therapy interests you, I would warmly encourage you to register your interest — please get in touch, and we can begin with an initial conversation.

Alongside my clinical work, I provide clinical supervision to psychologists and other mental health professionals, drawing on nearly a decade of experience as a Head of Department and many years supervising and training clinicians at all stages of their careers.