About

Welcome!

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst I have a private practice based in Tooting Bec (London, UK, SW17, Northern Line), and online, providing psychological consultations, psychological therapy, and supervision to professionals and trainees.

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What I do

I provide psychological consultation and psychotherapy, using a psychoanalytic approach. I can also support your mindfulness practice, having qualified as a mindfulness teacher within the NHS, within the Oxford approach developed by Professor Mark Williams.

In brief, psychoanalytic approaches are open-ended, exploratory psychotherapies that have a focus on the unconscious causes of distress and mental health difficulties. Click to learn more about Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis. To open a useful leaflet from the British Psychoanalytic Council explaining more click here.

Who can I help?

Subject to consultation, I may be able to help with problems related to depression, anxiety, relationships, sex and sexuality, trauma, abuse, identity, transitions, bereavement, stress or medically unexplained symptoms. However, psychoanalytic therapy is not a symptom-focused approach and I would recommend other kinds of therapies if that seemed more suitable.

I have a special interest in providing psycho-dynamically oriented supervision to clinical psychologists in adult mental health roles, where we can co-formulate psycho-dynamically, whilst respecting your own technical approach, translating psychodynamic thinking into your own model of practice.

Training and regulation

I have an MA in Psychology and a qualifying Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I then trained in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, and in adult Psychoanalysis with the Institute of Psychoanalysis. I also trained as a Mindfulness Teacher with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. I have a background in family therapy and Mentalisation-Based Therapy, from my NHS practice.

I am a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

I am regulated as a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist by the British Psychoanalytic Council.

I am regulated as a Psychologist by the Health Care Professions Council.

I am an approved Training Analyst/Psychotherapist for the following psychotherapy training schemes:

Birkbeck Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, adult and child trainings

British Psychotherapy Foundation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (PPA)

British Psychotherapy Foundation, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training

Guild of Psychotherapists, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training

Medical Psychotherapy Specialist Training/Royal College of Psychiatrists

Tavistock adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (M1)

Tavistock adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (M58)

Tavistock Doctoral Training in Child Psychotherapy (M80)