About me
I completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapy at Gestalt Centre Wales, and my training in couples psychotherapy at The Centre for Relational Couples Therapy and have 15 years experience working in the mental health sector, with Fellowships from both The Wellcome Trust and the Churchill Fellowship for my contributions to the field.
As an active mental health researcher with a special interest in postpartum maternal mental health, I have recent research published in the British Medical Journal.
Becoming a therapist was very much informed by my own experience of the effects of a difficult childhood, and recovery from serious psychiatric illness in my early twenties.
In my late teens and early twenties, I experienced serious psychiatric illness and spent time as an inpatient. I know what it's like to be genuinely unwell, to be frightened of your own mind, and to wonder if things will ever feel all right again. That experience shapes how I practice. I understand what it takes to sit in a room and try to explain what's happening inside your head.
About my Practice
As a Gestalt psychotherapist my practice is grounded in what's happening now - how you experience yourself and your relationships in the present moment. It's a creative and experiential approach.
I'm warm and listen carefully, but also challenge you when I think it's useful. Therapy isn't about making you feel comfortable all the time - sometimes the most helpful thing is to point out what you might be avoiding.
People tend to appreciate that I'm straightforward without being blunt, empathetic without being soft, and that I have a sense of humour about the absurdity of being human. The work is serious, but it doesn't have to be relentlessly earnest.
As an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), I undergo regular clinical supervision and continued professional training.
Session fees: 50-minute individual £65 | 50-minute couples £95
“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.”
―John Schaar