I am an Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist trained at the Bowlby Centre, where I am currently in my fourth and final year of training.
You might be coming to psychotherapy to address something specific, or you may feel a more general need to understand yourself better. Either way, I work to reach the heart of what is going on, with the aim that the effects of psychotherapy endure long after our work together ends.
People have come to me with a wide variety of things to work on, including anxiety, depression, childhood issues, relationship difficulties, work troubles, grief, repetitive behaviours, addictions, eating disorders, dissociation, and psychiatric diagnoses. I am consistently struck by how distress connects both to everyday life and to deeper questions of what feels right and true.
People often describe psychotherapy as a profound experience. It can feel strange at first, so I am careful about finding an appropriate way for us to work together. I think about your history in so far as it is meaningful for your current life, with the intention of offering you greater self-insight and freedom.
The psychotherapy I practise draws on recent developments in the psychoanalytic tradition and attachment theory, as well as trauma research and neuroscience. This means I have a particular eye for the context of relationships, human needs, and bodily systems (including the nervous system).
Before training as an Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, I worked in finance, and my first degree was an MPhys. I am particularly interested in the interplay between objectivity and subjectivity in what it is to be human.