About me

I am a qualified, accredited and registered integrative psychotherapist & counsellor, mindfulness facilitator, and yoga teacher & trainer with over 10 years experience working with individuals, couples, and groups in various capacities.

My special interest lies in working with relationship difficulties, cross-cultural issues, and trauma. The depth of my training allows me to work effectively with a variety of concerns such as anxiety and depression, abuse, dissociation, 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 emotional and mental health and wellbeing, I bring both a pragmatic and holistic perspective to my therapeutic work. 

My thinking is based on an embodied mind and 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. Among other I draw on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought, attachment- and regulation theories, sensorimotor and body-awareness approaches to trauma treatment, DIT (Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy) and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy). In this way therapy is tailored to my clients’ needs, rather than them fitting into a method.

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 Wimpole Street (W1G), Wimbledon (SW19), and West Hampstead (NW6).

Qualifications & Training

An accredited member of BACP and UKCP, I abide by their code of ethics. 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 (Minster Centre)
• Mindfulness Teacher Training, MBSR/MBCT (CMRP, Bangor University)
• Senior Yoga Teacher & Trainer (YAP)
• Embodied Psychotherapy (Confer)
• Working with Couples (Tavistock & Portman Clinic)
• DIT Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (Anna Freud Centre)
• Complex Trauma (UKPTS/Birbeck university)
• The Nature of Trauma & Dissociation (Confer)
• Process-oriented Group Work (RSPCP UK)
• Child-centred counselling (NSPCC Childline)

Specialist training (CPDs)

CBT Theory and Skills, Trauma 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 (Minster Centre), Connections (Philippa Perry), Transpersonal Psychotherapy (John Rowan), Equine facilitated Therapy (Ashlar Evolution), Deep Psychotherapy with Dr Allan Schore (nscience UK), Working with Shame (Robert Downs), Post-slavery Syndrome and Intergenerational Trauma (Confer).

Memberships

• UK Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP accred)
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP accred)
• Yoga Alliance Professionals (YAP accred)
• UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS)
• European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS)
• Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
• The Relational School (TRS)
• The United Kingdom Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (UKAPI)