About Me
I trained in couples therapy at the Institute of Family Therapy then the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations in London. I worked in Counselling Centres as well as charities with all sorts of couples before setting up in private practice. Before this I trained as a Group Therapist at Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF) in London on a course leading to full UKCP registration and I have worked with groups as a trainer and practitioner ever since most recently at the Group Therapy Centre and the Cogwheel Trust (with couples and individuals), both in Cambridge. Two years as a counsellor with West Essex MIND introduced me to a broad range of clients.
I moved to Seaford during the summer from a thriving practice in South Birmingham seeing individuals and couples from many different socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds bringing all sorts of difficulties over a period of five years. Working online, I continue to offer psychotherapy to individuals and couples in a range of locations as well as face to face in Seaford.
My approach to counselling/psychotherapy draws on all aspects of my trainings; psychodynamic (which looks at how early experiences with caregivers affect current relationships) as well as attachment-based and systemic. I undertake short and long-term therapy contracts.
Qualifications
Diploma in Attachment, Psychoanalysis and the Couple Relationship, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relations, London.
Certificate in Systemic Practice (Families and Couples), Institute of Family Therapy, London.
Training in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy, UKCP Registered, FPC member.
Recent Professional Development
Tavistock Relationships- Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Couples (June 2019)
Tavistock Relationships- Between Partnering and Parenting: The Parental Couple (June 2020)
CONFER : Conscious Uncoupling : Separation and Divorce (April 2021)
nScience Masterclass : The Couple Outside the Room (November 2021)
Psychotherapy-Sussex: Anger: theoretical and political perspectives (July 2022)
Tavistock Relationships- Narcissism and the Couple (March 2023)
Tavistock Relationships-Intimacy and the Couple (April 2023)
Tavistock Relationships-Attachment-Informed Couple Psychotherapy (June 2023)
FPC: ADHD a psychodynamic and psychotherapeutic perspective (Sept 2023)
Tavistock Relationships-Psychoanalysis and Homosexuality (October 2023)
FPC : Having a psychic home - Aspects of Identity (November 2023)
Psychotherapy-Sussex: Seduction deception and Technology (November 2023)
