I don’t believe mental health can be understood in the way physical health is understood as a cause-and-effect rational system. We are ‘feeling’ people who think, not ‘thinking’ people who feel. Our interior worlds are emotional and context-dependent. They respond to the relationships we have with all sorts of external influences like people and places, cultures and belief systems, or nature. With 80 billion interconnected cells, the human brain is the most complex thing in the known universe, much too complicated to be understood mechanistically. Life has meaning beyond a series of inputs and outputs. I believe the tendency to medicalise mental health is attractive but simplistic. We are shaped by experience and everyone’s experience is different. People need to be understood, to be seen and to feel heard. The healing is in the relationship.

Accreditation

NCPS Accredited Psychotherapist; Registered member of BACP; Graduate Member of BPS

• Offer: Free initial consultation by telephone

Relational psychotherapy

I will put all of myself into our therapeutic relationship. My modality is relational, attachment-based, integrative psychotherapy.

Ecotherapy

I provide 60-minute sessions walking and talking around London’s beautiful Regent’s Park. It’s a double-whammy: health benefits enormously from contact with nature (see Good Nature, by Kathy Willis).

Theatre

From first hand experience I understand the pressures brought about by working in the performing arts. I have studied it and I’ve performed for the Hampstead Theatre, Omnibus Theatre, Royal Festival Hall and Donmar Warehouse. When fame means privacy is paramount, home visits can be arranged.

Climate change

The coming issue of our age is global warming and its consequences will dominate the 21st Century. Groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil are the canaries down the mine and the political response to environmental defenders compromises democracy, affecting how we feel and changing our relationship to power. All of these have ramifications for our physical and mental health alike.

Academia

As a lifelong learner, I studied Creative Health and Performance Psychology (UCL, 2022), Integrative Psychotherapy (Minster Centre), Transactional Analysis (Metanoia Institute), Psychology (Regent’s Uni), Addiction Psychology (LSBU), International Development (Open University), and Law (University of Cambridge, 1995).

A warm welcome

I am proud to have worked in the creative industries, the health sector, the legal profession, the voluntary sector and statutory social work. I’ve occupied positions from senior management to front line service delivery and although I’ve worn many different hats the common denominator has been helping people in distress.

I am fully aware that starting therapy can feel daunting but whoever you are, you’ll get a warm welcome. 

Academic qualifications

Master of Science (MSc Psychology, Regents University)

Master of Arts (MA Cantab)

Bachelor of Arts (BA Law, Cambridge University)