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As a psychotherapeutic counsellor and coaching psychologist, I work with clients who are overwhelmed, exhausted, uncertain or stuck.
I offer regular, in-person sessions to adults of all ages.
I help people with anxiety, burnout, carer responsibility, career change, climate anxiety, closed-mindedness, confidence, decision paralysis, depression, disappointment, divorce, emotional freedom and self-regulation, existential crisis, gender identity, grief, heartbreak, identity crisis, immigration, inner critic, isolation, loss of purpose, meaninglessness, moving home or work, non-belonging, panic attacks, personality development, procrastination, racial trauma, restlessness, rootlessness, rust out (boredom), self-worth, sensitivity, transitions chosen (like graduation or retirement) and unchosen, including a loved one’s death, and uprootedness.
Maybe you’ll recognise your situation in this midst, or somehow just know that we should speak. I look forward to meeting you.
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Presence, attention, purpose all contribute to what my colleague Eloise Skinner calls “aliveness” – an expansive feeling that ebbs and flows – which we believe people can cultivate through micro-practices, dialogue and encountering fresh perspectives. You and I, relating, ushers in change.
As a volunteer therapist with Psychosis Therapy Project, I work with vulnerable adults with chronic or acute suffering in 1:1 and group settings. In addition to my therapy work, I have over 1000 client hours as a coach/coaching psychologist; and I offer reflective super-vision to other accredited coaches.
My teacher’s teacher was Viktor Frankl, a Viennese psychiatrist who anonymously published his concentration camp experiences (Man’s Search for Meaning), and founded a unique approach to meaning-seeking called logotherapy. Frankl challenged psychoanalysis by insisting that beyond the body and psyche, there is a deeply personal dimension in each of us that is never ill. Through dialogue, we can come (back) into contact with this dimension, even when it’s been trained out of us, or shunted aside because of daily life’s demands. When I’ve assisted people in this process, they’ve described it like coming home.
Gesellschaft für Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse Counselling Diploma
Psychology MSc Distinction – University of Derby
Business and Personal Coaching (Work Based and Integrative Studies) Pg Cert – University of Chester
All of my qualifications are Level 7 (Masters level).
Logotherapy is a dialogue about meaning, purpose and values. Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy that helps people to live emotionally and spiritually free lives, finding inner consent despite difficult circumstances. It is a person-centred therapy in the humanist tradition, which means you and your unique experience take priority over explanatory theories.
As a professional certified coach, coach supervisor and trained psychologist, I use many models and frameworks in my coaching, including creative arts, NLP, Simplexity® and somatic coaching.
Logotherapy, existential analysis and coaching psychology share the common aim of connecting people to their capacity to live fulfilled, autonomous, connected lives. I place my expertise in service of your one life.
I help clients summon the resources (or develop the flexibility) to better navigate life’s challenges. You might call it “inner leadership”.
How? I ask questions, hold silence, bear witness and gently confront as needed to help a person contact their inner knowing. Together, we’ll look for the slices of freedom within your circumstances. Reframing through creative analogies, squeezing pockets of joy out of the grind and finding humour all help. What’s more, when we listen to the inner criticism that wears you down, it softens. We perceive what it protects. With integration comes greater ease.
Negative self-talk or a ferocious inner critic may be throwing obstacles in your way. The stress of life, the demands of family and the perils of moving forward might be wearing you out. If you’re feeling spread too thin, overstretched by work, parenting or divorce, entering or emerging from burnout (or rustout), the therapeutic space I offer can help you press pause and learn to reset. Life should be liveable, not intolerable.
Where to from here?
We begin with a brief telephone or online call. I’ll invite you to describe the burdens bringing you to therapy and what change you seek. It’s fine to know simply that life for you isn’t going well right now. When we first meet in-person, we’ll continue to map your concerns and how you’d like therapy to help you live better.
I can take the reins and direct our conversations, or we can co-create a consulting space that ebbs and flows between therapy and future-focused coaching, according to your needs.
I provide a contained space and supportive presence. As you decide to trust it, your hidden self, your worries, doubts and insecurities will enter into our dialogue. Paradoxically, with them comes new possibilities. In time, you may find yourself dusting off the dreams you’ve parked on the top shelf of your adult life, unfulfilled and half-forgotten, and perhaps venturing forth in fresh directions you now feel better prepared to pursue.
NON SPECIFIC / RANGE OF ISSUES, Anxiety, Bereavement, Burnout, Career, Carer support, Expatriation, Family issues, Low self-confidence, Low self-esteem, Redundancy, Return to work coaching, Stress, Work related stress
Psychotherapy, Counselling, Coaching, Life Coaching, Bereavement Counselling, Psychology
Face to Face @ EC1V 8AB, Online / Virtual Therapy
