Therapy in London and Online
Some experiences cannot easily be spoken. You may feel uncertain why you're even on this page. Or perhaps you do have a sense of your inner turmoil, and are looking for something that can ease the pain. Perhaps you have lost hope, and the word 'therapy' no longer conjures up an image of someone who can help, maybe it never did. Yet you still find yourself here.
You may feel pulled between different expectations and worlds: familial, cultural, spiritual, professional. Perhaps you are perceptive enough to sense that what troubles you is not only personal, but shaped in relationship and context. Perhaps your relationships and contexts are colored by your early experiences in the family, and it's difficult to discern what belongs where. Maybe you feel unable to access your perceptions, or to trust, or name them at all.
You might feel overwhelmed, fragmented, or alone. You may have adapted in order to survive, belong, and now find those adaptations exhausting, but feel unable to break free of them. Perhaps you long for freedom, autonomy, but can't even define what those words mean for you.
I work one to one with adults, providing a confidential space where you do not need to perform, explain, protect others, or fit into prescribed narratives that can feel violent. You can show up in all your human messiness, and contradictions, where the beauty of life and its brutality are equally welcome.
In a time that can feel polarized and destabilizing, where you might feel caught between different narratives about yourself, and the world around you, and struggle to access your inner voice, together we can find ways for you to regain your clarity, feel more grounded, and reconnect with your inner lodestar.
“Every soul has its own dawn.”
~ Suhrawardi
About me
I trained at the Minster Centre in embodied relational integrative counselling for six years.
I am currently training in Soulful Group Facilitation at Re-Vision.
I have over a decade of clinical training and experience.
My training is integrative, which means that instead of being limited to one particular therapeutic approach, I can draw from a variety of diverse approaches and tailor the therapy to your needs.
I am flexible in using approaches that help you come to terms with your past, or those that are more oriented towards the future.
I have worked across NHS, private, charitable, educational and psychiatric settings. These include:
NHS Talking Therapies, The Psychosis Therapy project (Islington), Women and Health (Camden), and The Minster Centre's low cost counselling service.
My professional and personal experiences have deepened my understanding of how structural realities and private suffering intersect, and how what often appears personal is shaped by wider systems - and vice versa.
Questions of identity, belonging, and power are central to my thinking, as well as how they manifest within the bodymind.
My understanding of both privilege and oppression is informed not only by professional training, but by lived experience, having moved across very different social realities. This - alongside my clinical training - gave me an understanding of how even extremes of both can co-exist at the same time.
This enables me to work comfortably with complexity - whether you are navigating marginalization, responsibility, visibility, privilege, your position in the family system, or within society - and the ways these layers come together, or are at odds with each other.
Alongside clinical training, I hold central the inner life: dreams, intuition, and the layers of experience that can be communicated via the body, and are not always easy or possible to language.
Clients often describe my presence as calming, perceptive, and non-judgmental. They speak of feeling more able to name what was taboo or unnameable, and express more of their selves - in the therapy, with themselves, and to the outside world.
Counselling
People often come to me when they are:
- carrying the weight of unspoken realities, whether these are familial or societal expectations, or unresolved ancestral and transgenerational matters.
- living with a sense of fragmentation
- questioning inherited narratives: familial, cultural, spiritual, or sociopolitical.
- seeking integration after significant life events
- looking to integrate plant medicine / psychedelic experiences in a space sensitive to ancestral healing, transgenerational trauma, the impact of cultural appropriation on the psyche, and a deep understanding that 'the personal is the political' as Audre Lorde said.
You may experience your struggles as depression, anxiety, bullying, bereavement, trauma, PTSD (nowadays cPTSD is a common buzzword), abuse, addictions, low self-esteem, relationship issues, sexual issues, work-related issues, stress, or other words used in common parlance.
However your difficulties manifest, counselling can provide a space for you to name and process them, in a supportive environment. My approach is relational and systemic. I work holistically, which means I see you as a whole, mind, body, soul, and spirit. I understand that what we experience and express as individuals is often shaped by the families, communities and wider structures we have moved within. Together, we explore how these patterns developed and how they continue to operate, so that what has been difficult to see can slowly come into the light and new ways of living and relating become possible.
“Everything we think and do springs from the loves that govern us."
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
My location
I currently have space for online work.
Fees & availability
Sessions typically last an hour, usually taking place on a weekly basis. I charge on a sliding scale from £80-95 per hour. Contact me to enquire about availability. I accept payment in cash, or by bank transfer.
Get in touch
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, or to arrange an initial call. I offer an initial free 15 minute call. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you, and whether I am the right therapist to help.
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential.