About

Welcome!

I am a Psychoanalyst and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and retired Consultant Clinical Psychologist. I have a private practice based in Tooting Bec (SW17, Northern Line), in south London, where I provide psychological consultations and psychoanalytic treatment.

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What I do

I provide a psychological consultation and treatment service, specialising in psychoanalysis.

In brief, psychoanalytic approaches are longer term, 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 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 formulate psycho-dynamically, whilst respecting your own clincal approach.

Training and regulation

I have an MA in Psychology and a qualifying Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I trained in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, whilst at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and subsequently trained as a Psychoanalyst, with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, also in London.

I am a Member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 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 training schemes:

British Psychotherapy Foundation, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training (PPA)

Association of Child Psychotherapists/Tavistock Doctoral Training in Child Psychotherapy (M80)

I also meet Training Analyst/Psychotherapist criteria for the following trainings:

Tavistock adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (M1)

Tavistock adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (D58/9)

Tavistock MA in Psychological Therapy with Children (M34)

Guild of Psychotherapists, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training

Birkbeck Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, adult and child trainings