My Approach
As an integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, I draw from different schools of psychotherapy including psychodynamic, compassion-focused, cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, body psychotherapy, attachment therapy, Internal Family Systems and mindfulness-based therapy.
You may come to therapy for different reasons and issues.
Our difficulties and beliefs about ourselves and the world very often stem from early connections with our parents, our family and our experiences at school. These very relationships often shape how we feel, how we think and how we behave in our here-and-now relationships and in general in our adult life.
A Personalised Approach to Therapy
Depending on your aims in therapy, part of our work might be to understand, and often to review, these patterns of behaviours and belief systems that stem from your early life, which might no longer be needed in your adult life.
Overall, our aim in therapy will be to create long-term change which allows you to live a life which feels healthier and more fulfilling.
I appreciate it can be hard to find the right therapist and for this reason I offer a lower rate for our first private therapy session in my London consulting room and online.
The Initial Consultation Experience
During our initial consultation I will ask you some standard questions about your background to build a picture of you that will help us in our work together. I will also give you space to talk about what brought you to therapy. This initial session is an opportunity for us to understand whether we are a good match and could work well together.
Some of the Issues I Work With Are:
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Trauma
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Low self-esteem and self-worth
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Loss and bereavement
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Family and Relationship difficulties
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Difficulties in relation to sexuality and sexual identity
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HIV/AIDS related issues
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LGBTQ+ related issues
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Issues about masculinity
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Bullying
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Stress
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Isolation
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Identity issues
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Attachment issues