I offer an active, engaged form of psychotherapy for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and live with greater honesty and freedom.

I work particularly well with thoughtful people with rich inner lives, and those with creative minds. I also enjoy working with people whose minds move quickly or non-linearly, including many people with ADHD. I am particularly interested in the parts of people that have not fitted comfortably with the expectations of others.

My approach is integrative, with strong existential, psychodynamic, Jungian, transpersonal and somatic influences. I am interested not only in what has happened to you, but in how you are living now: where you feel most yourself, where you adapt or hide, what feels essential to you, and what gets in the way of being real with other people.

Therapy with me is conversational and collaborative. I will ask questions, offer thoughts, notice patterns and sometimes challenge you. I also want you to feel able to disagree with me or tell me when I have misunderstood something.

Dreams, imagery, bodily sensations, creativity and spiritual or uncanny experiences can all have a place in the work if they matter to you. I take these experiences seriously without imposing a belief system or fixed interpretation on them.

I pay close attention to what happens in the body and in the relationship between us. Sometimes understanding something intellectually is not enough. We may notice patterns of tension, defence, vigilance or withdrawal as they happen and discover that they can begin to let go.

Honesty, curiosity and humour are important parts of how I work.

Areas I particularly work with

• Trauma — including PTSD, depersonalisation and derealisation

• ADHD — including attention, motivation and organisation, but also shame, frustration and the experience of feeling different

• Anxiety — including generalised anxiety, social anxiety and insomnia

• Anger — understanding anger, boundaries and the feelings or needs beneath it

• Identity and self-esteem — particularly where you have spent a great deal of your life adapting to other people

• Existential questions — meaning, loneliness, difficult choices, mortality and direction in life

• Creativity — including writer's block, performance anxiety, fear of failure and the relationship between creative work and inner life

I have a longstanding involvement in writing and the creative arts. With writers and other creative people, therapy sometimes develops naturally into discussion of the work itself, particularly where creative material and the person's inner life overlap.

If what brings you to therapy is not listed above, please feel free to contact me. I will tell you honestly whether I think I am the right person to help.

Practical information

WHERE: Face-to-face at Riverwork, 72 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 4QQ. I also have some online appointments available.

DURATION: I work both short term and on an open-ended basis. We can decide together what makes sense for what has brought you to therapy.

FEE: £80 for a 50-minute session. A limited number of reduced-fee places may be available where cost would otherwise make therapy inaccessible.

REGISTRATION: UKCP registered psychotherapist and Registered Member of BACP (MBACP).

QUALIFICATION: Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE).