About me

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

I have a particular interest in the complexities of cross-cultural identity and the relational dynamics that influence how we connect, grow, and navigate our lives. My expertise includes working with interpersonal difficulties and stress-related issues, 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, Austria, 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 lecture at a London university and internationally, consult companies with a focus on burnout prevention, and lead The Village Clinic.

My Approach

“No two are alike, each is a case of their own, a unique outcome of their many meetings.” (Deary, 2024)

My therapeutic approach places the relationship at the heart of change, where meaningful connection and consistent presence create the conditions for change and lasting growth. It is grounded in an appreciation of both context and content in shaping our narrative and lived experience. I adopt an intersectional perspective and acknowledge the embodied nature of the mind.

The integrative approach I use draws together traditional therapeutic theories, evidence-based models, and contemporary relational insights informed by neurobiology. This enables me to tailor treatment to each client, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method.

My approach is informed by a range of theoretical frameworks, including psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking, attachment- and regulation theories, sensorimotor and body-based approaches to trauma, interpersonal neurobiology, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), alongside my own life experience.

While much of my work with individuals and couples is longer term, I also offer time-limited, solution focussed Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), drawing on my experience within 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)
European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP) (EAP)
Executive Coaching Certificate (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).