My career in therapy began in 2004, following several years living in California, and prior to that working in the film business in London. For six years I counselled for low-cost/charity counselling services such as Westminster Mind; and was the Counselling Co-ordinator and Senior Counsellor for the Help Counselling Centre on Portobello Rd. I worked as a staff counsellor for Barts and the London NHS Trust; and later for the London Ambulance Service, seeing road crew and other employees. Since 2009 I have maintained a private practice, working with adult individuals, both short and long term. I also supervise other practicing therapists.
Until 2017, alongside private practice, I worked several days a week for an addiction treatment clinic, seeing individuals and couples. I am familiar with the 12 Step programmes and often work with issues arising around sex, love and relationships. I devised and taught the sexual compulsivity (addiction) module on the CICS Clinical Sexology course in 2018-2019. For four years I worked as a tutor and student supervisor at The Minster Centre, an integrative psychotherapy training in central London. For now, I work in private practice and undertake some voluntary work. I have had a long standing interest in working with trauma, and in recent years undertook further training in Somatic Experiencing, a body-oriented therapeutic model for resolving symptoms of trauma and other stress disorders. As I am something of a psychotherapy geek, I am now studying for an MSc in Psychoanalytic Studies (non-clinical) at UCL, in order to more deeply understand the historical, philosophical and theoretical roots of the profession.
After several unsatisfactory years of renting therapy rooms I opted to work from my home, which has, for well over a decade, offered a comfortable, safe environment in which to work. While I do work online, meeting in person is infinitely preferable and I strongly recommend it.
Sometimes our cat puts in an appearance, usually sleeping, but if you are allergic to or don't like cats just let me know!
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