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My Approach

When life becomes challenging or overwhelming, having a supportive and confidential space in which to explore your difficulties can be invaluable as you take steps towards making sense of things. However finding the right therapist isn’t easy and it takes courage to share what you’ve been going through with another person.

I work with clients to establish and maintain a relationship built on safety, warmth, trust, and understanding—where you may feel able to talk about thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that have been difficult to express and start to consider possible ways forward.

I see therapy as a collaborative relationship in which our focus will be on understanding what’s going on for you. Since you know best what hurts and what truly matters, you will guide the process—not just in choosing me as your therapist, but also in determining the focus, depth, and pace of our work together. My role is not to offer advice or analyse you but to listen closely, responding with careful attunement and genuine curiosity and interest as you explore your experiences.

By helping you to understand yourself, the situation you’re in, and your relationships better, you may find a sense of living more authentically, of perceiving your experiences more clearly, of starting to view yourself with more compassion and grow in ways that are more satisfying for you.

What happens next?

If you get in touch, I’ll usually suggest a 50-minute introductory session so we can explore what's brought you to therapy and what you might like to get out of it. This might give you an idea of how it is for you to talk to me and to decide whether it will be helpful for you if we go on to work together. If we choose not to work together, there will be no charge for this initial session. 

Fees

If we go on to work together, there will be a £45 charge for the introductory session. Subsequent 50-minutes sessions will take place at a time and place agreed by us. We will also decide an ongoing session fee on a sliding scale between £65 and £85 that feels sustainable for you and the work you want to do. I maintain a small number of concessionary places – please get in touch for details.

Sessions

My practice is based in light, bright and spacious rooms on the second floor of a discrete and peaceful building on Upper Street in the heart of Islington, not far from St Mary's Church. This location is easily reached from Angel, Highbury & Islington and Essex Road stations, as well as being on numerous bus routes connecting Islington with its neighbours. 

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I have experience working with people from a wide range of backgrounds facing unique challenges, difficulties and life experiences. 

In my private practice I work face-to-face and one-to-one with adults (18 and over) on an ongoing or time-limited basis. 

I hold a Clinical Diploma and an MSc in Contemporary Person-Centred Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute in London. 

Besides my private practice, my clinical experience includes work at community-based counselling services across London where I’ve supported clients working through a wide range of issues. I also work with clients who want to use therapy as a means of personal development. 

I have a particular interest in experiences of otherness, humility, migration and exile, lack of meaning and purpose, lost connections, spirituality, and creativity, and have undertaken research into the experiencing of metaphor in psychotherapy which was published in Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies in November 2023. 

As a full clinical member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I follow the UKCP Code of Ethics and Professional Practice and am subject to their Complaints & Conduct Process. I also follow Metanoia's Code of Clinical Ethics & Professional Conduct and attend regular clinical supervision and additional professional training to support me in my work. 

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