I am deeply passionate about my work with individuals and couples of all ages. I have experience exploring, together with my clients, challenging life experiences such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, sexuality, relationship difficulties, attachment and separation, feeling stuck, loss and grief, identity issues, and struggles with finding meaning or direction in life.

For the therapeutic and healing process, I invite my clients into a safe, welcoming and confidential space where they can feel comfortable leading the sessions without pressure and at their own pace. As a therapist, I support my clients with empathy, attentive and curious listening, and by validating their experiences in a non-judgemental way. Depending on each client’s unique needs, I draw on various approaches from different theories and schools, with the fundamental aim of helping clients gain deeper self-knowledge and fostering personal growth.

In addition to traditional talking therapy, I also offer non-verbal forms of communication, such as artmaking and imaginative or experiential work, which can be especially helpful when words feel insufficient or when thinking becomes overwhelming or blocked.

I am not the best therapist for everyone. I offer a free 30-minute consultation to help us determine whether or not we are a good fit.

I’m an accredited Psychodynamic Art Psychotherapist, registered with both the Health and Care Professions Council and the British Association of Art Therapists, and I adhere to the guidelines and codes of ethics of these organisations. As part of this, I attend regular clinical supervision twice per month, which is bound by the same rules of confidentiality as all of my client sessions.

I am interested in offering psychotherapy to all members of our society and offer concession rates for those in difficult financial positions.

My practice has been informed and inspired by various schools of thought in therapy. All of them as detailed below are client-centred, emotion-focused and experiential.

While each modality offers a distinct perspective and focal point for the therapeutic process, it is important for me to realise that the client is the only expert of her/his difficulties, and that my primary challenge as a therapist is to be with my client as a human being, and in a non-hierarchical and non-judgemental way.

Relationality

Relational approach in therapy focuses on the therapeutic alliance and aims to explore the dynamic feelings which come up in both client and therapist. This modality is interested in particular in moments when the therapeutic relationship breaks down and, in the efforts, to restore the ruptures. (References: Christopher Muran, Jeremy Safran)

Focusing in therapy

The focusing process as therapeutic approach is primarily interested in the present moment, and how we feel it using heightened attention, compassion, curiosity and awareness towards our bodily sensations. It aims to deepen our self-awareness and understanding of ourselves with the focus on the inner relationship of body and mind. (References: Eugene Gendlin, Ann Weiser Cornell, Greg Madison)

Schema therapy and deliberate practice

Schema therapy and deliberate practice aims to discover, modify and explore deeply ingrained patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving experientially. Deliberate practice in therapy aims to create a safe space where the client can re-experience early traumatic events in a controlled manner, with the aim to change related meaning and emotions. (References: Jeffrey E Young, Sophie Cote, Pierre Cousineau)

Dialogue of internalised parts 

Internalised parts therapy views our mind as a collective of individual parts with unique roles and perspectives. This therapy approach aims to explore, understand and improve experientially the relationship in between our inner parts, especially when some parts were disowned or unwanted in the past. (References: Bonnie Badenoch, Rick Schwarz)

Art therapy

Art therapy offers space for potential embodiment and visual manifestation of feelings and thoughts. Based on this process of the making and enacting, art therapy invites the client further to explore the sensation of  the joined attention and the experience of looking together. (References: Jonathan Isserow, Andrew Marshall-Tierney, Sally Skaife)