My Background

I believe change can occur within relationships of trust and non-judgmental compassionate honesty. Whilst I believe that good training and ongoing personal and professional development are essential, I seek to work within a safe and open way and be as flexible as possible. As an integrative practitioner I work with a variety of different counselling approaches depending on the individual. Counselling involves forming a creative space in which the sense of self can be seen with empathy and people can find ways to understand themselves in new ways, allowing for change.

I have, over a twenty year period, trained in Psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, counselling and psychoanalysis. All these disciples I believe are helpful to explore in order to best understand how we learn to relate to the world and those around us, and how we can change and take in new ways of being that fulfill us. In my counselling I seek to bring the best of what science and these disciplines have taught us about how humans grow and develop, what psychoanalysis can bring insight into our muddled lives, within an empathic relationship. I am keen to draw on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, psychotherapy and the wisdom that we are all able to bring to life. My main interests however are in lacanian psychoanalysis which I use as a framework to think within.