I have long experience of seeing health professionals for therapy, including doctors, clinical psychologists, and trainee psychotherapists and counsellors.

I am also a supervisor, coach, teach and take group analyst trainees in my twice-weekly analytic group.

I have also been in various leadership roles within the NHS over the past two decades, currently as Head of Psychotherapy/joint Chief Psychological Professions Officer (CPPO).

Fees: £100 per session

Initial consultation: £110

For those wanting to join the group: individual pre-group sessions are charged on a sliding scale £65-£100 according to what is affordable.

Group: £250/month for 2 x 90-minute groups per week

I have experience of working with people from a variety of backgrounds and with a range of issues and problems:

Some people want personal growth: to achieve their career goals, manage family life and friends better, want to release themselves from ‘triggers’ which are getting in the way of a satisfying work and love life.

Others come with symptoms - these can be a clue that something under the surface needs attending to. My approach is to see these as a key part of a person’s story, often a way of protecting a person from buried feelings that, in the safety of the therapy room, can be surfaced and tackled head-on.

I see therapy as a brave thing to do: it’s work, rather than an indulgence, but it’s also enjoyable and helpful to be in touch with a whole range of emotions, and to become conscious and authentic in your interactions with others.

I have worked with generalised anxiety, social anxiety, eating issues, intrusive thoughts, repetition-compulsion disorder, depression, loneliness, difficulties with intimacy and closeness, work-place dilemmas, divorce, bereavement, narcissistic problems, body image problems and dysmorphia, difficulties mentalizing, shame, relationship problems, boarding school experiences, parenting, OCD, Tourette’s, bipolar and ADHD.