Psychotherapy

I offer a safe, restorative and non-judgmental  relationship in which you can acknowledge what has gone unrecognised or unspoke

n, grieve losses, identify and work through the reappearance of old traumas, and experience a growing sense of being the capable artist of your own life. I feel a personal investment in your journey. No matter how isolated you feel in your experience, we are in it together.

£100 per 50-minute session | Online | UKCP Registered

People often seek therapeutic support during stressful events, periods of crisis or change, when feelings of anxiety or depression become unmanageable, or when there's a sense that things cannot carry on as they are. But psychotherapy isn't only for crisis management; it is also a means of developing more awareness of your habitual patterns, deepening the richness of your relationships and examining the links between your inner world and external circumstances.  

Common challenges I support include:

• Anxiety and overwhelming emotions
• Grief, loss, or major transitions
• Relationship choices, difficulties and patterns
• Career changes or work related pressures
• Self-doubt or low self-esteem
• Managing creative or professional demands
• Trauma or past experiences affecting the present
• Questions about identity and sense of self
• Chronic illness and ageing
• Fertility concerns
• The hidden impacts of family history
• Migrant life and intercultural experience

Psychotherapy can help anyone experiencing psychological distress, difficulty with relationships, or wanting to develop more conscious awareness of how they relate to the world.

While change is dependent on individual circumstances, after regular work people generally feel:

• more empowered in how they conduct their lives
• confident in their capacity to respond to difficult situations 
• better able to articulate their needs in relation to others and to meet others' needs in turn 
• a capacity to recognise and trust their own intuition and embodied responses
• a sense of healing from traumatic experiences
• more peace and acceptance around painful relationships or circumstances
• clarity around important decisions and priorities for life moving forward
• better alignment between inner being and outer expression
• an ability to cope with ongoing uncertainty and to navigate the changing tides of experience

Both of us will most likely recognise when the time is coming for our work to end; you should feel confident around meeting your future life without therapeutic support and our relationship can be let go.

There is a large and consistent body of research evidence confirming that the quality of the relationship is the biggest determinant of psychotherapy outcomes. Forming a collaborative partnership and an affective bond with you is the most important pillar of our work and it matters that I am able to grasp your perspective and recognise the unique ways in which your circumstances and life experiences may be affecting you. While there are bound to be many aspects of your experience that I don't share, it helps if you feel able to be open, and if I try to stay open and honest about what I am hearing and the associations I am making, so that together we can find a shared understanding.

Sessions thus tend to be supportive and exploratory as we get to know one another, and the aims of the work become clearer. Our relationship can then become an optimally responsive environment for whatever comes up for you.

If you have questions about whether psychotherapy might be beneficial for you, feel free to get in touch.

Selected Research Supporting My Approach:

Bordin, E. S. (1979). The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 16(3), 252–260. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0085885

Flückiger, C., Del Re, A. C., Wampold, B. E., & Horvath, A. O. (2018). The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis. Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.), 55(4), 316–340. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000172

Gülüm, İ. V., Dilekler-Aldemir, İ., İkizer, G., & Karanci, A. N. (2025). The temporal dance: How therapist presence and alliance evolve across early sessions of psychotherapy? Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 98, 1017–1032. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.70001

Horvath, A. O., Del Re, A. C., Flückiger, C., & Symonds, D. (2011). Alliance in individual psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, 48(1),9–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022186

Mazzeo, O., Di Giuseppe, M., Lagetto, G., Tanzilli, A., Gennaro, A., & Gelo, O. C. G. (2026). Defense mechanisms and psychotherapy change: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. . https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000366

I work primarily with adults navigating psychological distress, relationship patterns, questions about identity, and transitions in personal or professional life. My approach draws on a grounding in developmental and clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, humanistic and integrative psychotherapeutic traditions, and theories and practices from the embodied and creative arts.  

Drugs, Alcohol and Other Substances

Many people self-medicate or manage their emotions using drugs, alcohol, food or other activities or substances. I encourage open and honest discussion around these areas so that the role substances play in clients' lives can be properly explored and understood within the wider context. 

I do not condone or condemn use, but weekly relationally-oriented psychotherapy may not be effective where substance use is heavy or disruptive, and specialised treatments for addiction or eating disorders may need to be in place first.

What falls outside my scope

I am not medically qualified and don't prescribe medication or diagnose psychological conditions. While I am able to work with people who have received psychiatric diagnoses and use medication many some circumstances, private online psychotherapy is not always sufficient on its own, and is not appropriate for the management of active psychosis, severe addiction, or uncontrolled violence.

Structured protocols — CBT worksheets, symptom tracking, fixed-duration treatment plans — are not part of how I work. Instead, I aim to support autonomous self-reflection and personally meaningful insight, tolerating the uncertainty present in an undirected process.  If another service suits your needs better, I'm happy to discuss appropriate referrals.

My work draws on 15+ years of clinical practice and active research into how creativity and relationship intersect in therapeutic space. I'm an independent researcher whose PhD explored using autofiction to examine relational processes, and I continue to contribute to developing understandings of how change happens between people. This informs my clinical practice: attending to what's co-created in the room, sometimes using creative methods, and recognising that clients' difficulties are shaped by context as well as internal experience.

UKCP Registered Psychotherapist

16 years clinical practice across individual, group, and supervisory contexts

PhD University of Edinburgh, Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry

MA & HIP Dip in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy, Middlesex University & BCPC 

MSc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, UCL & Anna Freud Centre 

BSc in Experimental Psychology (2:1), UCL