Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Psychotherapist | Senior Lecturer | Writer
WELCOME TO MY PSYCHOTHERAPY PAGE
If you are in overwhelm or shutdown, please feel free to email me straight away re psychotherapy.
PSYCHOTHERAPY: HOW I WORK
I offer specialist therapy for complex PTSD, trauma, dissociation, and long-standing relational patterns that leave you feeling stuck, frightened, or alone with your mind.
My approach is grounded in the phase-based model for treating CPTSD:
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Stabilisation & Survival — grounding, safety, and building enough internal support to get through each day.
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Processing & Meaning — trauma work that honours pace, preserves dignity, and works hard not to overwhelm your system.
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Reconnection — strengthening relationships, identity, and the parts of life trauma pushed to the edges.
Alongside this structure, I integrate analytic psychotherapy, parts work, and trauma-focused somatic methods tailored to what your system needs.
WHAT THERAPY FEELS LIKE WITH ME
People often come to me because they need therapy that can hold:
– shutdowns, freezes, deadness or going blank
– high-intensity emotional states
– dissociation, fragmentation, or part-states
– long histories of feeling unheard, dismissed, or labelled
– the anguish of wanting to be your own person in systems that don’t make space for your reality
My job is to meet you where you are — whether that’s crisis, exhaustion, hyper-functioning, collapse, or anything in between — and to offer a space that is thoughtful, collaborative, and non-pathologising. My practice is neuroaffirmative, and proudly queer-, sex-worker-, and kink-positive.
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, a title recognising senior expertise within the profession. I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, a PgDip in Cognitive Behavioural Psychology, and later trained as a Lacanian analyst, in Systemic Psychotherapy, and in Internal Family Systems. My earlier background is in philosophy and the arts, which continues to shape the creativity and narrative depth of my work.
I have over 25 years’ clinical experience and have held multiple senior NHS leadership roles. I served as Clinical Lead and Manager for one of the UK’s largest Integrative Psychotherapy Services supporting people with complex relational and emotional needs, built a borough-wide Family Interventions Service, and pioneered one of the first Early Intervention in Psychosis Services.
Academically, I have been Research Lead for Psychology at Barts and The London and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at City University. I am currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, a consultant for one of the UK’s leading suicide-prevention charities, and Practice Editor of the European Journal for Psychotherapy.
I teach embodied trauma-informed care on the national programme to improve standards on acute wards, and train psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists and other staff across five London teaching universities.I’ve also navigated significant emotional distress and years within the psychiatric system. These experiences continually shape my practice, grounding it in an approach that blends depth work with the kind of steady, get-me-through-the-day support people often need when life becomes unbearable. I love what I do - and I am told that shows.