I'm an experienced independent therapist running my own private practice. I offer sessions online and face-to-face in hired consulting rooms in Central London and South-East London.
Individual and Couples Therapy
Relationship difficulties, emotional pain, anxiety, recurring patterns, or questions around intimacy and sexuality can leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves and from those closest to us. At other times, life may appear outwardly manageable while something deeper remains unresolved.
I work with individuals and couples through an existential, integrative, embodied, and relational approach. Therapy offers a place to look beneath impulsive reactions, understand what has shaped them, and develop a more grounded and authentic way of meeting yourself, others, and life.
People often come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, or caught in patterns they do not fully understand. You may be struggling with anxiety, low mood, the effects of past experiences, a loss of confidence, or a period of change that has unsettled your sense of who you are and where your life is going.
You may also find yourself repeating painful dynamics in relationships, longing for more closeness while finding it difficult to trust, communicate openly, express your needs, or feel secure with another person. I work with individuals and couples around these experiences, including conflict, emotional distance, sexuality, differences in desire, jealousy, infidelity, and the challenges of creating relationships that feel honest, mutual, and aligned with who you are.
My practice is inclusive of ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, kink, BDSM, and other non-normative expressions of connection and intimacy. I offer an affirming and thoughtful space, inclusive of cisgender and LGBTQIA+ identities, in which these experiences can be explored without judgement.
Approach
My work is grounded in the understanding that emotional and relational difficulties are rarely explained by thoughts alone. They are influenced by bodily experience, attachment history, personal values, cultural context, unconscious processes, and the ways we have learned to seek closeness, protect ourselves, withdraw, adapt, or maintain control.
My therapeutic approach draws primarily on humanistic principles, drawing from Existential Analysis and Logotherapy while integrating insights from other branches of psychology, western and eastern philosophy, and spirituality, including Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism. This offers a comprehensive framework centred on the fundamental motivations for understanding human existence, guiding us in the exploration of your need for safety and grounding, enjoyment, authenticity, freedom and meaning.
Building on the foundation of existentialism, I also incorporate elements of somatic/body-centred, psychodynamic, internal family systems (IFS), integrative, and archetypal therapy. Central to my practice is a holistic view of the human experience, recognizing the mind as not only embodied and relational but also spiritual, shaped by both conscious awareness and the depths of the unconscious.
Existential therapy explores fundamental aspects of being human, including safety, belonging, freedom, responsibility, authenticity, purpose, and the search for a meaningful life. Rather than reducing distress to a set of symptoms, we consider how your difficulties relate to the whole of your experience and the particular circumstances in which you live.
Alongside my clinical work, I bring more than 20 years of experience in senior management and consultancy. This gives me a strong understanding of the pressures associated with leadership, responsibility, high performance, professional identity, and career transition.
My way of working is collaborative, reflective, and grounded. We are not looking for superficial solutions, but for a clearer understanding of what has shaped you, what matters now, and how you want to move forward with greater awareness, freedom, and inner consent.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy can offer support when you feel anxious, overwhelmed, angry, low, uncertain, lonely, or disconnected from your sense of direction. We may explore identity, self-esteem, attachment, trauma, grief, work-related pressures, spiritual questions, or a feeling of being stuck despite considerable insight and effort.
Personal difficulties often become especially visible in close relationships. You may find yourself withdrawing, becoming preoccupied, people-pleasing, struggling to express needs, fearing abandonment, avoiding vulnerability, or losing contact with yourself when emotionally involved.
Our work can help you understand these responses from within, develop greater emotional awareness, and strengthen your capacity to recognise your needs, boundaries, values, and choices.
Couples Therapy, Relationships and Intimacy
I support partners who want to understand and change painful dynamics between them. Couples may seek help with persistent arguments, poor communication, emotional distance, diminished intimacy, differences in sexual desire, mistrust, betrayal, jealousy, major transitions, or uncertainty about whether and how to remain together.
The aim is not to decide who is at fault. We pay attention to the cycle that develops between you, the sensitivities and longings beneath it, and the ways each person’s protective responses affect the other. This can create room for more honest dialogue, mutual recognition, emotional repair, and renewed closeness.
I also work with individuals and partners exploring erotic life, sexual identity, shame, libido differences, kink, BDSM, polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, and ethical open relating. These conversations are approached with openness, curiosity, and sensitivity to the values and agreements that matter within your particular relationship.
Our Work Together
We begin with a complimentary 30-minute discovery call. This gives us an opportunity to speak about what brings you to therapy, experience how it feels to be in conversation together, and consider whether my way of working may be a good fit.
The first full session allows us to explore your situation in greater depth and identify the concerns that feel most important. You do not need to arrive with a clear explanation or a fixed goal. We can begin with your immediate experience and allow a fuller understanding to develop over time.
As the work progresses, we consider how safety, belonging, intimacy, autonomy, authenticity, and meaning influence your relationship with yourself and with others. By attending closely to your emotional and embodied experience, new possibilities can emerge for choice, connection, and a way of living that feels more truthful and alive.
What I Can Help With
Individual therapy, couples therapy, relationship difficulties, communication issues, emotional intimacy, attachment issues, anxiety, anger, depression, loss, abuse, trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, low self-esteem, identity issues, worthlessness, mood disorders, meaninglessness, lack of purpose, conflict, trust, infidelity, jealousy, desire, sex-related issues, kink-aware therapy, ethical open relating, polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, cultural issues, immigration, redundancy, career changes, stress, burnout, work-related issues, military veterans, spirituality, and cult recovery.
Qualifications
- Existential Analysis and Logotherapy Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
- Internal Family Systems Therapy: Clinical Applications
- Professional Certificate in Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology
- Early career: Management Consultancy, Project Management & Engineering
Health Insurance Coverage
- Alliance Health Corporate
- Allianz Partners
- Aviva
- Bupa
- Cigna
- Freedom Health
- Healix
- Vitality
- WPA
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