SPECIALISMS
I welcome working with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. There are, however, some areas in which I have particular experience and interest, which may help you decide whether we might be a good fit.
Public Figures, Senior Leaders & Creatives
I work with people in high-profile, senior or sensitive roles, including leaders, public-facing professionals and those working in the creative industries. Visibility, responsibility and success can bring particular pressures, alongside the challenge of finding space for a private self away from the expectations of others.
Therapy offers a confidential space in which these different parts of life can be explored openly. For those working creatively, this might also include questions of identity and ambition, creative blocks, changing relationships with success or recognition, and reconnecting with creativity itself.
Depression & Anxiety
Anxiety and depression can take many forms, from persistent worry or low mood to a more difficult-to-name sense that something is not right.
Much of my NHS work involved working with people experiencing depression and anxiety at varying levels of severity. Rather than viewing symptoms in isolation, I’m interested in what they may be communicating about our relationships, histories, identities and the ways we have learned to navigate the world. Therapy can offer a space to understand these underlying patterns as well as finding relief from the symptoms themselves.
Couple's Therapy, Relationships & Sex
Relationships are central to much of my work, whether I am working with individuals or couples. Difficulties with intimacy, sex, commitment, trust or conflict rarely exist in isolation; they are often connected to our earlier experiences of relationships and the ways we have learned to seek closeness, protect ourselves or respond to vulnerability.
Drawing particularly on psychodynamic and attachment-based thinking, therapy can help us understand these patterns and create greater freedom in how we relate to ourselves and to others.
Neurodiversity and ADHD
Many adults seek therapy around difficulties that later turn out to be connected with ADHD — such as problems with attention, organisation, emotional regulation or motivation, or a persistent sense of somehow not quite fitting in. For some, a diagnosis comes later in life; for others, questions around neurodivergence are still emerging.
I have particular experience working therapeutically with adults with ADHD, including those diagnosed later in life. Therapy can explore how neurodivergence intersects with relationships, work, creativity, identity and self-esteem, moving beyond practical strategies alone to consider its deeper emotional and relational impact.
This can be particularly valuable for people who have spent much of their lives appearing highly capable while privately experiencing overwhelm, exhaustion or a persistent sense of falling short.
Work, Ambition & Professional Life
Work can carry far more psychological meaning than simply what we do for a living. It can become closely connected with identity, self-worth, ambition, creativity, belonging and our sense of purpose.
People come to therapy with experiences ranging from stress and burnout to difficult workplace relationships, career transitions, creative blocks or questions about success and direction. Therapy can provide space to explore not only what is happening at work, but what our relationship with work may reveal about us more broadly.
Family & Early Relationships
The families and relationships in which we grow up inevitably shape how we understand ourselves and relate to others.
Experiences from the past can continue to influence present relationships, self-esteem and emotional life in ways that are not always immediately apparent. Therapy offers an opportunity to explore these histories with curiosity – not simply to attribute present difficulties to the past, but to understand the patterns we may have inherited or developed and how much freedom we have to relate differently.
LGBTQ+ Lives, Sexuality & Gender
I have extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ people across a wide range of identities, relationships and life experiences. I am an Advanced Accredited Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversities Therapist (AGSRDT) with Pink Therapy, and questions of sexuality, identity and minority stress have also been central to my research and writing.
Affirmative therapy, for me, does not mean approaching someone with predetermined ideas about who they are or who they should become. It means creating a space in which sexuality, gender, relationships and identity can be explored openly and without judgement — including their complexities, contradictions and intersections with other parts of the self.
My role is not to provide an answer about who you are, but to help create the conditions in which you can explore that question for yourself.
Men & Masculinities
I have a particular clinical and research interest in the emotional lives of men and the ways masculinity can shape our relationships with vulnerability, shame, intimacy and help-seeking.
Many men arrive in therapy having become highly practised at coping independently, intellectualising difficult experiences or keeping particular parts of themselves private. Therapy can offer a different kind of relationship: somewhere these patterns can be understood rather than judged, and where ways of relating to oneself and others can gradually become more flexible.
I work with men from a wide range of backgrounds, identities, values and political perspectives. Therapy does not require therapist and client to see the world in exactly the same way; difference itself can sometimes become an important part of the therapeutic work.
Culture, Difference & Intersectionality
None of us exists independently of the social and cultural worlds we inhabit. Race, culture, class, migration, gender, sexuality, disability, religion and socioeconomic circumstances can all shape our psychological lives and our experiences of belonging, exclusion, privilege and difference.
An intercultural and intersectional approach recognises that these realities belong within therapy rather than outside it. It also acknowledges the similarities and differences between therapist and client and the ways these may enter the therapeutic relationship.
I have worked extensively within some of London’s most culturally diverse communities and with people whose racial, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds differ significantly from my own. I approach these differences with curiosity and humility rather than assuming they can be made irrelevant. When we are able to think about them openly, difference itself can become an important and meaningful part of the therapeutic encounter.
Meaning, Identity & Existential Questions
Not everyone comes to therapy because of a clearly defined symptom or crisis. Sometimes what brings someone is harder to name: a sense of emptiness, disconnection or dissatisfaction, or questions about meaning, identity and the direction their life has taken.
These experiences can emerge during periods of transition, loss or change, but they can also arise when life appears outwardly successful. Therapy offers a space in which these larger questions can be explored without needing to resolve them prematurely — with curiosity about what they may reveal about how we are living and what might be asking to change.