Welcome
If you're feeling anxious, low or overwhelmed, I’m here to help. I’m an experienced, BACP-registered psychotherapist based in North London and I work online and outdoors.
People usually come to see me because they are unhappy with their life and they want real, lasting change. I offer a supportive, private space where you can explore what’s on your mind. Together, we can help you grow to feel more at home in yourself and more present and content in your life and your relationships.
I work with a variety of different people and issues, and I tailor my approach to each person. My specialisms are outdoor therapy and working with neurodivergence.
What I do
People come to see me for many different reasons. These include:
Anxiety and stress
Depression and low mood
Making sense of the discovery that you are autistic, ADHD or both (AuDHD)
Fear about climate and ecological crisis
Grief and loss
Chronic ill health, for example long covid
Issues with food and eating
Childhood trauma and abuse
Relationship difficulties
Struggles with identity and belonging
I offer weekly psychotherapy sessions online or outdoors. Sessions last 50 minutes.
Online sessions take place on Zoom, and I recommend that you find a comfortable, private place at home where you can talk. I also do sessions on the phone, if you prefer.
Outdoor sessions can involve walking and talking, or finding somewhere to sit, or a mixture of both. Many people find it easier to talk when they are walking or sitting side by side, rather than face to face. Doing therapy outdoors doesn’t work for everyone, so I’ll discuss it with you before we go ahead.
I’ve been practising psychotherapy for ten years. Early on, I did a training in Wild Therapy, because I wanted to work in a way that felt more aligned with the rhythms of the earth, and more connected to the more-than-human world.
More recently, I discovered that I’m neurodivergent (autistic and self-identified ADHD). This has enabled me to make sense of things that I never understood about myself and that traditional therapy approaches hadn’t managed to grasp.
My work now combines the insights and benefits of psychotherapy with my skills as a wild therapist and my awareness and knowledge of neurodivergence.
I’m committed to providing psychotherapy that is as supportive of neurodivergent minds and lives as it is of everybody else.
About me
My qualifications and accreditations:
Masters’ Degree in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre in London, accredited by the University of Middlesex.
Diploma in Wild Therapy from the Embodied Relational Therapy (ERT) school.
Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the Minster Centre.
Registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
About psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is about bringing awareness and understanding to how you are thinking, feeling and behaving. We’ve all developed habits of behaviour and patterns of relating that don’t serve us well. The more curiosity we can bring to these patterns and habits, the less power they have, and the more possible it is for something new to emerge.
Your thoughts, feelings and behaviour can be shaped by many different things, including trauma, childhood experiences, relationships, and, if you’re neurodivergent, trying to navigate life in a world that isn’t designed for you.
Therapy is a place for you to bring all of you, even the bits you don’t think anyone else wants to see. It’s a unique kind of relationship, which can feel challenging, validating and illuminating. Together we get to know who you really are, and I support you to make the changes that will create the life you actually want.
Wild therapy
Wild therapy is a kind of ecotherapy, which basically means therapy that involves nature in some way. Study after study shows that ‘being in nature’ is good for you - mentally and physically. But wild therapy isn’t simply about doing therapy outside, or walking and talking – although it can, and often does, include both of those things.
Wild therapy invites us to broaden our perspective on what it means to be human – to include how we experience our relationships with the land, with other species, with the ecosystems that we are part of. It invites us to consider how the other-than-human world might offer us support, and even guidance.
Wild therapy also encourages us to embrace our own innate wildness – the idea that we are human animals, with sensitive nervous systems, instincts, intuition and dreams, as well as intellectual minds. When we do this, we often find that we start to relax and trust ourselves more, and feel a greater sense of belonging.
Fees
My fee is £100 to £140 per session, depending on income and circumstances.
I charge £100 for an initial session.
I keep some low-cost places for those on a lower income. Please let me know at the time of inquiry if you are interested in this.
Location
Outdoor sessions take place on Hampstead Heath and in the green spaces around Barnet, on the northern edge of the city.
I will arrange a meeting place with you that is convenient for both of us.