About me

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

Specialised in interpersonal difficulties, cross-cultural issues, and stress-related problems including anxiety and depression.

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

My personal roots are in Freud’s Vienna and I have family in the UK, Austria, Italy and Germany.

A converted business professional dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing, I bring both a pragmatic and holistic perspective to my therapeutic work drawing on my background as a mindfulness teacher and senior yoga teacher trainer.

Alongside my private practice, I supervise and lecture at a university.

My therapeutic approach

I recognise both, context and content as important to our narrative and life experience, and adopt an intersectional perspective whilst acknowledging the embodied nature of our mind.

The integrative approach allows me to combine traditional therapeutic theories with evidence-based models and contemporary relational ideas that are grounded in findings from neurobiology. This way treatment is tailored to my clients’ needs, rather than fitting the client into a method.

In my approach I draw on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought; attachment- and regulation theories; sensorimotor and body-awareness approaches to trauma treatment; interpersonal neurobiology; CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy); and my life experience.

Most of my work is longer term, however, I also offer time-limited solution focussed Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) based on my work in the NHS.

I run a clinic in Wimbledon (SW19), and Online (Video & Phone).

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).