About me

I am a qualified, accredited and registered integrative psychotherapist & counsellor and executive coach in private practice with over 15 years experience working with individuals, couples, and organisations.

My expertise lies in addressing interpersonal difficulties, cross-cultural issues, and stress-related problems, including anxiety and depression.

The depth of my training also equips me to effectively work with various concerns such as trauma, abuse, dissociation, narcissism, self-harm, sexual problems and complex, enduring mental health issues.

My personal background is rooted in Freud’s Vienna, and I have family connections in the UK, Austria, Italy and Germany.

As a former business professional, I am dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing, bringing a pragmatic and holistic perspective to my therapeutic work by drawing on my extensive experience as a senior yoga teacher trainer and mindfulness teacher.

In addition to my private practice, I am involved in lecturing and examining at a London university, as well as consulting organisations on HR strategies with a specific focus on burnout prevention.

My approach

My approach to therapy is based on recognising the significance of both context and content in our narrative and life experience. I adopt an intersectional perspective while acknowledging the embodied nature of our mind.

The integrative approach I employ allows me to combine traditional therapeutic theories with evidence-based models and contemporary relational ideas grounded in findings from neurobiology. This enables me to tailor treatment to my clients’ needs, rather than fitting them into a specific method.

I draw on various theoretical frameworks in my approach, including psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought, attachment- and regulation theories, sensorimotor and body-awareness approaches to trauma treatment, interpersonal neurobiology, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), integrating them with my life experience.

While most of my therapeutic work with individuals and couples is longer term, I also offer time-limited solution focussed Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) based on my experience in the NHS.

Clinics in London, Wimbledon (SW19), and Online.

Qualifications & Training

An accredited member of BACP and UKCP, and BPC accredited DIT practitioner, I abide by the code of ethics of my governing bodies. I am committed to continued professional development and have undertaken qualitative research on the experience of Uncertainty in therapy.

MA Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling (Middlesex University)
Adv.Dip & Dip Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy (The Minster Centre)
DIT Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (Anna Freud Centre)
Executive Coaching (ICE, University of Cambridge)
Mindfulness Teacher Training, MBSR/MBCT (CMRP, Bangor University)
Senior Yoga Teacher & Trainer (Yoga Alliance Professionals)
Embodied Psychotherapy (Confer)
Working with Couples (Tavistock & Portman Clinic)
Complex Trauma (UKPTS/Birbeck university)
The Nature of Trauma & Dissociation (Confer)
Process-oriented Group Work (Processwork UK)
Child-centred counselling (NSPCC Childline)

Specialist training (CPDs)

Crisis Intervention, Neurobiology and Sensorimotor Trauma Skills (Fisher), Deep Psychotherapy (Allan Schore, nscience UK), Working with Shame (Robert Downs), Post-slavery Syndrome and Intergenerational Trauma (Confer), Depression, body causes and brain consequences (RSM), CBT Theory and Skills, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Safeguarding & Child Protection, Family & Belonging, Narrative Therapy, Psychiatric Assessment, Eating Disorders, Self-harm and Suicide, Gender and Sexualities, Working with Refugees (The Minster Centre), Connections (Philippa Perry), Transpersonal Psychotherapy (John Rowan), Equine facilitated Therapy (Ashlar Evolution), Meditation & Psychotherapy (Tara Brach), Response to a pandemic (RSM, NHS/IAPT), Boarding School Syndrome, The Deluded Self: Narcissism (nScience), Coaching Competence (BACP CPD), Working with Neglected States (TRTogether).