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I see clients at my home in Highgate, North London. It is a residential
street with easy parking.
If requested, I also have facilities to see clients in the consulting rooms at
Regents College, London NW1.
Starting therapy is often daunting. Lots of questions arise – ‘Will it help me?’, ‘May I feel even more vulnerable?’, ‘Will I become dependent on it?’
A first meeting, when we look at these concerns, helps to ‘demystify’ therapy, to explain what it’s all about and how it works. Together we’ll discuss how it helps to unravel the emotional knots that influence behaviour and spoil relationships.
Therapy is a process that facilitates insight into repeated patterns of self-destructive behaviour and of difficult relationships. It’s a joint endeavour between client and therapist and this relationship, which is a safe and trusting one, allows emotional healing and the growth of self-esteem.
I work with a psychodynamic approach. I also have a training in family therapy and see the context of people's lives as being very important in understanding the sort of difficulties which bring them to therapy.
Mostly I work long-term but am also willing to offer short-term counselling and certainly recognise its value where a longer commitment isn't possible.
I work with individuals and with couples.
As well as my private clinical work, I am also Honorary Visiting Fellow at the School of Psychotherapy & Counselling at Regent's College. This title was conferred 'for outstanding academic and clinical contributions to the School.'
I am also a keen gardener. Just as in a garden there may be dark corners inhibiting growth, so it is sometimes in people’s lives. Psychotherapy helps to cut back the emotional tangles and, within a safe relationship, tries to understand the bad feelings, where they’ve come from and to ask why they’re still lingering. Psychotherapy can begin to lighten the shadows.
