I am a psychotherapist based in Brockley, south-east London, accredited by the UK Council for Pscyhotherapy. My practice is a five-minute walk from Brockley overground station. I take a contemporary psychoanalytic approach. In practical terms, this means that the therapy is open-ended rather than time-limited, and exploratory rather than restricted to the goals of a treatment plan, which allows for discovery and radically new perspectives on the problems that bring you to therapy. I think of this work as a collaborative sense-making activity. Change occurs naturally as part of the process of reflecting on things together in a safe and non-judgmental space.

I charge £60 for an initial consultation and £60 to £90 for ongoing therapy depending on financial circumstances and frequency of sessions. If £60 is unaffordable, please get in touch to ask if I have any spaces for low-cost therapy.

Though I prefer to work in person, I am happy to meet remotely if necessary.

Therapy can help with the following sorts of problems:

You find it hard to get close to people.
You never seem to be able to get anything done.
You seem to end up in the same sort of relationship again and again, no matter how hard you try to break the pattern.
An irrational fear makes it hard for you to live your life. You know it’s irrational but can’t talk yourself out of it.
You can’t get over a painful loss in life.
You feel phoney but don’t know what it would mean to be yourself.
Your life is ruled by a fear of missing out.
You have a habit of sabotaging yourself. For example, you don’t prepare for important events when you know you should.
You can’t help thinking it’s only a matter of time until people realise what you’re really like.
You can’t get certain thoughts out of your head. You go round and round in circles with them and find it hard to focus on anything else.
You fall in love too easily. Or you feel the other person is always more into you than you’re into them.
You feel worthless in comparison with others.
You have trouble controlling your moods.
You feel anxious if you do or don’t do certain things. The need to do them or avoid doing them interferes with your life.
You don’t trust your own judgement and struggle to make any decisions without relying on others for help.
You always seem to be in a conflict with someone.
You feel guilty and ashamed and think you deserve to suffer.
You feel you’re just going through the motions, unable to make any sense of your life or of life in general.

Though different people can struggle in life in similar ways, no two people have the same reasons for coming to therapy. So I will ask you to tell me about yourself, about your relationships past and present, about experiences that have shaped your ways of being with others and dealing with frustrations and disappointments, about what gives you pleasure and makes life worthwhile. In time, we will begin to see why things affect you as they do, how life’s stresses can build up and begin to feel unmanageable, and what a life without these difficulties might look like.

My approach is to try to get to know you, listening without judgement or preconception to what you tell me about yourself, never identifying you with the difficulties that bring you to therapy.