Approach
I offer individual psychotherapy to adults dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and other long-standing patterns that inhibit creative thinking about the future. My approach is psychoanalytic, sometimes called psychodynamic: rather than quick-fix answers or directive advice, I work to understand what lies at the edge of awareness, often shaped by unconscious processes. By exploring what you bring in some detail, we come to understand it more deeply than conscious reflection alone allows. This is an open-ended process, and I encourage your feedback on how the work is going at each stage.
I aim to sustain a clinical setting in which patients can trust they are receiving an excellent standard of care, drawing on substantial experience in the National Health Service and in private practice with a wide range of psychological and interpersonal difficulties. Therapy is demanding: patient and therapist work together to face the most painful aspects of experience, in search of relief from mental pain and a fresh perspective on patterns of living and relating. My aim is meaningful, lasting change through deep listening, in an atmosphere that promotes imaginative insight and genuine respect for each person's history and lived experience.
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Clinical experience
My clinical work spans NHS and private settings, including:
- 10 Windsor Walk Psychotherapy Service
- Maudsley Hospital NHS Self-Harm Outpatient Service
- Tavistock Clinic NHS Adult Complex Needs Service
- Institute for Human Identity, New York
- IPTAR Clinical Center, New York
Training & registration
- Intercultural Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
- Respecialization Program in Adult Psychoanalysis, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), New York
- Advanced Clinical Extern, Institute for Human Identity, New York
- Registered full member with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), both Accredited Register Scheme members
