Who Am I
I am an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and I am UKCP registered. I trained at the Bowlby Centre, London in 2000 and have been practising since. I have spoken at conferences and am on the editorial board of Attachment Journal and the European Society for Trauma & Dissociation (ESTD) where I regularly write articles as well as film and book reviews.
I am a trustee at the Paracelsus Trust and the Clinic for Dissociative Studies.
As well as seeing clients, I offer attachment-based supervision to professionals, either individually or in groups. My work is informed by theorists such as John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, Alice Miller, Stephen Mitchell, Allan Schore, Daniel Stern, Bessel van der Kolk, Onno van der Hart & Sandy Bloom.
My Clients
I work with individuals who have suffered from depression, anxiety, sleep-problems, eating issues, OCD, phobias and addiction. People who have been abused as children, physically, sexually or emotionally. They may also have had relationship, career, fertility or identity problems. I also see people who were diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Many of my clients have been in therapy before and find their symptoms and problems recurring. My work helps understand the self; its origins in childhood, and how to bring change at a deeper level and in a long lasting way.
My Approach
I take a relational and trauma-informed approach to working with people who come to see me. I believe that no child is born mad, bad or sad and that therapy works best in a reparative and reflective relationship. Taking a trauma-informed approach enables the therapist to allow recovery and I avoid using the pathology of mental illness which tends to stigmatise people.
I approach all of my clients with compassion and care and help them to relieve their troubling symptoms. I recognise that childhood adversity, early life experiences, and the environment in which one grows up, defines who we are. I provide emotional support and empathy to enable my clients to accept their feelings and manage them better. Using a relational approach, I engage with the client, modelling meaningful relationships. This offers the possibility for a paradigm shift in their life and can lead not to just stabilisation of their symptoms but a real change in their lives.
I specialise in trauma, abuse, dissociation and mind control, attachment theory and parenting skills.
Other
I also offer consultancy for TV and drama productions, journalism and court reports.
