I am an experienced psychotherapist of humanistic orientation, primarily working with formative psychology, bodywork, gestalt therapy and pesso-boyden system psychomotor, and using elements of psychodrama, psychosynthesis, transactional analysis and other approaches.

I am accredited by both the UK Council for Psychotherapy and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and I practise in Notting Hill, West London. I am also a member of The UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.

I had a previous career as a solicitor, and I was for several years a trustee of the LGBT counselling and advocacy organization PACE. During my years of psychotherapy training I worked in the voluntary sector on issues around domestic violence, childhood bullying and the effects of crime.

I sing the body electric. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself – I am large, I contain multitudes.    - Walt Whitman

Therapy for me is a space in which to have a new experience of myself, to become empowered and emancipated, to have more of what I desire and a greater sense of control in my life, to trust myself, to function better in relationships and in society, and to take responsibility for my own formative process.

Our society places great demands on us, heightening a sense of frustration and an unhealthy level of stress. We are encouraged to rush around in an over-adrenalised state, seeking achievement and domination, as if we are masters of the world rather than just a part of it that happens to have something we call ‘awareness’.

Two things make God laugh: when a healer says “I healed them!” or when bickering lovers say “We have nothing in common!”   - Ramakrishna

Overstimulation and overwhelm have a direct effect on our immune, nervous and hormonal systems. Over time, they lead to depression, anxiety, a feeling of helplessness, retreat into isolation. This is the organism regulating itself. My aim, and my wish for the people I work with, is that we develop our skills of voluntary self-management, growing a relationship with our own boundaries that will give us more of ourselves, more of an internal life, and greater influence over our experience.

We cannot control our lives or the world or each other, or only to a limited extent. Impermanence is a basic fact of life.

You can’t change and yet remain the same, though this is what most people want.   - Patrick Macdonald

Living authentically moment by moment is about meeting the unknown. Our task is to develop skills of self-regulation, to learn to manage our boundaries, to become sensitive to our own adaptability and aware of how our adaptations no longer serve us well, and to accept ourselves for who we have been and are today and allow ourselves to dream of what we can yet be.