I am an experienced, fully qualified psychotherapist and accredited member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The UKCP is the UK’s leading professional body for the education, training and accreditation of psychotherapists.

I hold a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Integrative Psychotherapy, which I trained for at the Metanoia Institute in London (www.metanoia.ac.uk). This is a 5-year, in-depth psychological training, accredited by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and validated by Middlesex University. I am also trained in telephone counselling work.

Experience

I have 13 years’ post-qualification experience as a psychotherapist, and another 5 years prior to that as a trainee psychotherapist, where I volunteered in various charities and was also a student counsellor at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

I am qualified to work with adults (age 18+), and I have experience working with people across the spectrum of adult life, from 18- and 19-year-olds right the way through to people in their 80’s and 90’s. I have worked with people of many different nationalities and cultural backgrounds; with diverse experiences of race and racialisation; and with different levels of financial and cultural privilege. I have had quite a lot of experience of working with people with minoritised experiences of gender, sexuality and sexual orientation (LGBTQ+). And although I would emphasise that I am not a neurodiversity ‘specialist’, I have worked with many individuals with an ADHD or autism diagnosis or symptoms.

I have found that my way of working is particularly compatible with supporting adult survivors of childhood neglect and abuse, as well as people with adulthood experiences of abuse, including psychological abuse.