We can carry a lot for a long time. Therapy is a place separate from the rest of life where attention can be given to what matters: we explore your world, in your own time. It is a place to speak freely about what has been, and what might still be possible.
You might come because something has happened, such as a diagnosis, a bereavement, a relationship ending, or a decision that won’t resolve itself. Or you might arrive at therapy because of something harder to name, a feeling that life is off course, or a question about what it is all for.
Together we could explore:
- Wanting your life to change
- Feeling anxious, depressed, stressed or betrayed
- Pressure at work
- Processing an unexpected event
- Grief, or grieving a death that is coming
- Living with a serious illness
- Suicidal thoughts, guilt, anger and uncertainty
- Relationship difficulties
- Questions of belonging, purpose, luck and circumstance
My background
My training is in Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy. In practice, the phenomenological part means I start from your experience as you actually live it and how things really are for you. The existential part means taking seriously the things that are true about being human. Whilst it can’t always give us the direction, I’ve found that existential therapy can often give us a map of the choices we are facing.
I have undertaken clinical client work in multiple cancer support services, working with people living in remission and with both curable and incurable diagnoses. This has included the family members, partners, parents, friends and carers alongside them. I have also spent many years in a suicide prevention service, listening to hundreds of people at moments when life felt impossible to continue.
Practical details
I offer weekly, in-person appointments in Brixton on Saturdays, online and telephone available on request.
We would begin with an initial meeting and a chance to talk about what brings you, and to see whether working together feels right. There’s no obligation to continue beyond that first conversation and you do not need to have made a decision up front if you would like to work on a short term or longer term basis.
If you’re wondering whether therapy might help, you’re welcome to get in touch. I’m happy to answer questions before you decide anything.
