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 interpersonal difficulties in private and work relationships, 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, 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 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 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)
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).