About me

I work with individual adults for weekly psychotherapy in consulting rooms in Brighton, Hove and Lewes.  I have a wide experience working with client issues, including anxiety and depression in their many forms, relationship issues, life transitions, men's issues, loss and grief.  

My background in psychotherapy is 'integrative' which means I've trained in multiple modalities or therapeutic schools.  This includes an MA in Advanced Clinical Practice (at The Minster Centre in London) which had a core focus on relational psychotherapy.

 

At the heart of my approach are two foundational beliefs: that the needs and humanity of each client are central to the therapy (this is ‘humanistic’), and that the past often has a significant influence on how you live your life today (this is ‘psychodynamic’).  This integrative approach therefore enables me to flexibly tailor how I work to the specific needs of each individual client.  

Psychotherapy can also be seen as a means of reviewing and coming to understand our own story, especially when that story doesn’t seem to be working for us any more.  Clients often find, when they look at this 'self-narrative' for perhaps the first time, that it was created a long time ago, often in childhood.  This process can not only provide an understanding of why they behave the way they do but vitally enables them to reconnect with who they believe they are now.  This aspect of my practice is informed in part by an MA in creative writing and having studied psychodynamic and narrative theory.
 
I've also studied and worked with loss and bereavement, helping people work through this often difficult process, with the aim of arriving at a more stable and accepting place.  This often involves finding a renewed sense of meaning. 

Working together, we would aim to understand the problems which trouble you and how these have been driven by underlying issues.  This will enable you to live with more self-knowledge and thereby discover how to bring about the positive change you seek.