About Me

Qualifications

  • MA in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (University of Middlesex), Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (Minster Centre)
  • Diploma in Integrative Counselling (Minster Centre / University of Middlesex).

Additional training

  • I have a commitment to ongoing professional development - currently in Shame and the Body.
  • I have completed training as an EMDR practitioner and am working towards professional accreditation.
  • Working with Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders - WeightMatters Practice 2014;
  • Understanding Safeguarding and the Welfare of Children and Young People - Camden Council 2013
  • Alcohol: properties, use and misuse; working with alcoholism; cycle of addiction; brief interventions - Haringey Advisory Group on Alcohol, 2012 -2014  
  • Specialist training: adolescents, CBT, childhood sexual abuse, death and bereavement, domestic abuse, eating disorders, psychiatric assessment, self-harm and suicide, sexuality, sexual diversity, short-term work, trauma - the Minster Centre 2011-14

Professional affiliations

  • ​I'm a registered, accredited member of UKCP. 
  • I have membership of The Relational School and of Counsellors and Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility.




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Experience

In addition to my private practice, I have worked as a therapist in the following settings: at a clinic specializing in eating disorders; at a counselling service for parents; at a drug and alcohol recovery service; at a low cost therapy service. 

Before qualifying as a psychotherapist I worked for many years in the TV industry. I have also worked in politics and as a musician.