About counselling and psychotherapy with me.

The ways in which I work therapeutically.

For me, counselling and psychotherapy is a joint process, where the therapist and client work together towards achieving your aims. You are the expert in how you’re feeling, your experiences, hopes and fears. In therapy, we explore both the conscious and unconscious aspects of these in order to develop insight and self awareness.

I am an integrative therapist which means I combine the three main schools of psychotherapy:

  • Person-centred therapy (working with the core values of empathy, authenticity and being non-judgemental).

  • Psychodynamic therapy (examining the unconscious and how the past affects the present).

  • CBT (developing understanding of the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour).

My professional experience includes working in a clinical team at Positive East where work in a specialist HIV+ context, I also work within the Psychological Therapies team at Mind (in the city, Hackney and Waltham Forrest). I also draw influence from the core principles of Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT).

Ultimately we work to enable you to achieve your goals - be they physical, material, relational or psychological. Therapy provides a confidential environment to explore these in a safe and boundaried way. I offer both short and long term therapy tailored to your individual aims.

We work towards aims that we set together at the beginning of the therapeutic process, and review and amend these at intervals along the therapeutic journey. Your goals are personal to you and we will work together to help you set and realise these. Some of the things I am able to offer are:

  • Strengthening your ability to cope.

  • Discovering what you want in life.

  • Counselling for trauma.

  • Counselling for anxiety

  • Counselling for depression

  • Helping you to feeling better (counselling for wellbeing).

  • Developing a greater understanding of yourself.

  • Coming to terms with a significant change in life.

  • Accepting yourself.

  • Counselling for sexual issues (psychosexual therapy).

  • Resolving relationship issues or conflict.

  • Support in navigating an LGBT identity.

  • Adjusting to a family member’s coming out as LGBT.