As a psychodynamic therapist, I aim to create a safe therapeutic space where we can explore your life, and things that might be troubling you, together. This might include aspects of your relationships with others, your identity, or issues such as anxiety and depression. My approach is rooted in curiosity, working with you collaboratively to explore these themes and how they might evolve at a pace that is right for you. 

The psychodynamic approach emphasises the importance of early life experiences and how these shape us as individuals. As well as exploring material from your every day life, we might work with memories or dreams and unconscious beliefs and motivations. The  therapeutic relationship that exists between us as therapist and client is also important, offering a framework for considering how you might relate to others in your life.

In addition to a psychodynamic approach, I integrate a trauma- informed somatic approach in my work, seeking to understand the mind-body connection and the psychological aspect of pain and illness. Though our work will focus on you as an individual, my practice accounts for the wider political, cultural, social, and environmental context in which we live, incorporating existential thinking and questions.

In essence, we'll seek to understand the cause of any issues you face, and what alternative ways of being might exist. There isn’t a right or wrong answer. Instead, we have the opportunity to think creatively together about how you might overcome challenges, so that you can feel more empowered in your life.

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In particular, I specialise in working psychologically with the environment. This means something unique to each person. For some, it might include emotions connected to the climate crisis and the natural world, such as anxiety, grief, rage, shame and guilt. To others, it might include feelings about the ‘environment’ that shaped them growing up, thinking about ideas of home connected to  inter-cultural and national identities.

I integrate this with a trauma- informed somatic approach, seeking to understand the main environment in which the mind exists: the body. In particular, I’m interested in the psychological aspects of pain and illness, and the mind-body connection. 

I have an actively anti-racist practice and an affirmative approach to experiences of gender diversity and sexual orientation. I am inclusive of neurodivergent clients and those experiencing all forms of visible and invisible disability.