About ME
My Experience
I work with clients bringing a wide range of issues, and I have particular experience in adult ADHD, anxiety, trauma (PTSD/CPTSD), relationship difficulties, childhood adverse experiences, addictions, bereavement, chronic illnesses, and people who have experienced the narcissistic or borderline personality disorders of others.
My therapy approach is existential - paying attention to the client as a whole person, rather than a cluster of symptoms. To do this I work with you to understand your experience of the world, uncover hidden feelings or process those which are making you stuck.
By reflecting and exploring difficult and troubling feelings and experiences I can help guide you through to a place where you can decide what to accept and what to change in order to move forwards in a more knowing manner.
Sometimes traumatic experiences prevent us moving away from our past. With the help of EMDR, traumatic memories, which are triggered in the present and create anxieties for the future, can be processed to remove their emotional impact, freeing you up to shape your future.
I have many years' experience of providing counselling and psychotherapy in a variety of settings, and I now work in private practice seeing adults only.
Before setting up in private practice I worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist in Wimbledon Guild Talking Therapies; Balham Community Counselling Service; Guildford College counselling service and ChildLine.
Prior to training as a psychotherapist I worked in the City for 20 years and so have a good understanding of the stresses of working in such high pressure environments.
My Therapy Practice
Based in Wimbledon, London SW19, I offer short or longer term counselling and psychotherapy in person, and online via video conferencing, to people aged 18 and over.
I am an existential psychotherapist and an EMDR therapist. I am trained in a wide variety of psychotherapeutic modalities which I integrate into my practice as needed for each individual client. These include existential therapy, sessions of eye movement desensititaion and reprocessing (EMDR), person-centred therapy, psychodynamic theories, CBT principles, mindfulness and tapping.
I have particular expertise in working with people living with ADHD, derived from both personal experience and professional training. Understanding how your ADHD traits impact on your life can enable past experiences to be reframed and new ways of approaching life to be taken up.
I am an Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and therefore abide by their ethical standards in my therapy work.
My ACADEMIC qualifications
Specific to my psychotherapy role I have a Masters degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of Roehampton and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the Open University. From September 2025 I am also a certified EMDR therapist through the EMDR Academy.
In addition I have a Postgraduate Certificate in ADHD Counselling and Psychotherapy from the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling (NSPC), and certificates in Levels 2 and 3 Counselling Skills and Theory from CPCAB.
This extensive academic training, added to many years of seeing clients in session, has given me a wide knowledge of how psychological problems can develop and what therapy can do to help alleviate people's suffering.
Prior to training as a psychotherapist I gained a BA (Hons) in Linguistics from University College London (UCL) and became an ACA with the ICAEW through Ernst & Young. As a qualified chartered accountant I worked in the City for 20 years, finally leaving Credit Suisse as a Director to raise my three neurodivergent children.