My Background

At the heart of my work is the belief that meaningful change occurs within relationships of trust, safety, and non-judgemental compassionate honesty. I aim to offer a counselling relationship that feels open, respectful, and responsive, where difficult experiences can be explored without pressure or judgement.

While I value good training and ongoing personal and professional development, I also seek to work in a flexible and thoughtful way. As an integrative practitioner, I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches and adapt my work to the individual, rather than fitting people into a single model. Counselling, for me, involves creating a reflective and creative space where the sense of self can be met with empathy and explored in new ways, allowing change to emerge.

Over more than twenty years, I have trained in psychotherapy, counselling, psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. I believe these disciplines offer valuable ways of understanding how we come to relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us — and how new, more fulfilling ways of being can develop. In my counselling work, I seek to bring together what science, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis can teach us about human growth and development, within an empathic therapeutic relationship.

I am also interested in drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, and the wider wisdom that individuals bring to their own lives. My main theoretical interest is in Lacanian psychoanalysis, which I use as a framework for thinking and reflection rather than as a rigid method. This allows space for depth, curiosity, and complexity, while remaining grounded in the lived experience of the person I am working with.