I offer face-to-face counselling in Central London (Farringdon/Barbican area), including both short-term (6-12 sessions) and longer-term counselling. In long-term work, the number of sessions is open-ended but with regular check-ins to ensure that the work remains relevant to your needs. I also provide online counselling. 

My role is to support you in looking at the issues that led you to seek counselling. These may be specific issues or a general sense of things not being right. Both are legitimate start points for the conversation. In the recent past, I have worked with anxiety, stress, depression, anger, and feelings of loss of meaning and direction. There are no “pre-packed solutions”. We all have our own story and our own ways of finding a way forward. I aim to help people find the answers that work for them.

Through conversation, we have the possibility to explore your values, beliefs, choices, and assumptions as well as how you see yourself and how you relate to others. These are the things that define us and also sometimes hold us back. Considering alternative perspectives and exploring our behaviours and experiences with another person allows us to reconnect with who we really are and create the conditions for growth.

I am committed to providing a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment for these conversations. Counselling only works when there is sufficient trust between us to allow exploration. It is by reflecting on what we think we know about ourselves that insight emerges. I also recognize that, alongside space for reflection, sometimes what my clients need is very practical support, guidance and education. 

There are many different types of talking therapy. I’m an integrative counsellor. An integrative approach means that resources from different areas of psychotherapy can be drawn on depending on your needs. This can be helpful given the different backgrounds and preferred ways of working that people bring to counselling. Within the wide range of psychotherapies that exist, my own approach is based on the humanistic tradition, with a strong influence from existential and attachment theory. I’d be happy to explain more about my approach.

I hope that this information is useful and look forward to hearing from you