Individual therapy
Many people arrive in therapy for a clear reason — a bereavement, a relationship ending, a change you didn't choose.
Sometimes it's harder to name. A sense that you keep arriving at the same place by different routes. That you're managing, but only just. That there ought to be more to it than this.
Rather than managing difficulties from the outside, we work towards understanding what sits underneath them: the patterns you learnt early and never quite outgrew, the feelings that have been too much to know about, the story you tell yourself about who you are and what you're allowed to want.
I work with a relational lens aiming to create a space of warmth, shared responsibility and profound respect.
Life is not lived in a vacuum. The ways we feel, relate, and suffer are deeply entwined with the world around us. My aim is to support us in creating a therapeutic space that honours both your internal world – your dreams, patterns, and inner life – and the external contexts of identity, power, and systemic inequality that shape your experience.
What is depth psychotherapy?
A lot of counselling and therapy on offer today is designed to be brief and to target symptoms. That has its place. But depth psychotherapy works from the belief that a good deal of human difficulty isn't a symptom sitting on the surface.
Unconsciously, we hold a script of how to be, who we are, how others are. Formed early, repeated, reinforced and largely outside awareness.
Depth psychotherapy works with the unconscious
‘Depth’ is a description rather than a standalone ‘type’ of psychotherapy. Many different modalities and schools of Transactional Analysis aim to work at depth.
In a nutshell, much of what governs us isn't available to ordinary reflection.
We avoid what once overwhelmed us, and we go on avoiding it long after the threat has passed. We adapt to the environment we grew up in and then take that adaptation everywhere.
Psychotherapy is where those things become visible — and, in becoming visible, become open to change.
How do I start?
Taking the first step can be daunting. You may have additional questions
Sessions are £63 (£53 for UKATA/UKCP trainees)
Send me a message to arrange an initial session. I offer this at half the usual fee
This is an opportunity for you to get a feel for how I work, and for us both to see if we would be a good fit to work together
I mainly work in-room, but I do sometimes work online too and I have specific training in this
Some typical questions are answered here including some thoughts on where to start