About Me

Looking at Life from Many Angles

During a career that has covered academia, research, healthcare and business, I have come to understand that tackling life's problems is best achieved by looking at things from multiple perspectives. Drawing deeply on what we are familiar with can give us feelings of comfort and certainty, but will only ever provide a narrow understanding of our difficulties. It's hard to see our own blind spots or the bigger picture, limiting our ability to tackle tricky problems and leaving us vulnerable to missing opportunities for growth and change.

My expertise across psychotherapy, neuroscience, healthcare education, philosophy, coaching and business allows me to understand the complexities of human experiences in a deep and unique way. This means I can help you to find possibilities and solutions that others might overlook.

my journey

Completing a doctorate in neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry made me fascinated by the human experience and what underlies our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Subsequently, my work in pharmaceutical research and development showed me how prescribed drugs can help us cope with the symptoms of mental health difficulties, but left me feeling there must be a deeper way of creating lasting based on individual circumstances rather than a one-size-fits-all symptomatic approach. My time in medical education, where I developed behaviour change programmes for health care professionals and patients, served to deepen this conviction.

More recently, I have been responsible for leading, training and coaching individuals and teams in creative agencies where I learned to recognise and understand how diverse backgrounds, experiences and motivators affect different people in different ways. I have seen firsthand the transformative power of not only being heard, but also understood, by others. Witnessing this power of inter-personal relationships, and having developed my skills in this area, I trained as an existential psychotherapist and coach where I could make tackling challenges in a deeper, more personalized and lasting way central to my professional work.

my work as
a therapist

I am a trainee psychotherapist in the final year of a UKCP-accredited master's degree in existential psychotherapy at the New School of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Middlesex University) and have been seeing clients in person and online for over three years.

I am experienced in working with clients of all ages and backgrounds, dealing with a range of issues including relationship and workplace difficulties, questions of identity and sexuality, problems from the past, feeling lost and looking for meaning, and life transitions. My postgraduate research focuses on an existential understanding of the problematic use of online pornography and issues of male identity, and I give presentations on the neuroscience of psychotherapy to trainee counsellors.

I adhere to the ethical framework of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association (UCPA) and hold an enhanced DBS certificate. I also attend regular supervision sessions with a qualified supervisor (Emma Wilkinson) to gain feedback on my therapeutic work.

my work as
a coach

I am a member of the Association for Coaching, and during a 20 year career in business, I have coached and mentored individuals and teams, helping them achieve their professional and personal goals while considering their unique backgrounds and circumstances.

This has included working with people at the start of a new career and who are unsure of what success looks like, those who are having difficulty working with new managers or clients, feelings of imposter syndrome after being recently promoted, frustration caused by a lack of career progress, dealing with burn out (or the opposite), or looking to make a positive change in life outside of work. My clients have covered all ages and backgrounds, many of whom have been working in the creative, technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.