My therapeutic approach is underpinned by an understanding that the universal struggles we all face are relational challenges with living rather than individual medical pathology. 

Therefore, within a confidential, mutually respectful and trusting relationship, I seek to work with and for individuals and couples to clarify and reconsider their own unique ways of seeing and being in the world, build their awareness and acceptance and meet their existing and emerging life issues in both pragmatic and exploratory ways.

My interest in psychotherapy emerged from both my experiences as a journalist and international humanitarian worker over six years in Africa (1990-1996) and training for a Masters in Social Work (1996-98). I have 30 years of experience working in a wide range of settings in both the public and private sector, including specialist anxiety and depression, trauma, sexual abuse and addiction services.

In addition to my clinical work as a psychotherapist, I am a departmental tutor at the University of Oxford where I lecture on Existential and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT), and also a trainer for Terry Real’s  Relational Life Institute in Boston, teaching therapists how to work relationally with couples. Until  2022, I worked for over a decade as a Senior Teaching Fellow training students to provide the UK government's front-line NHS anxiety and depression services. 

I also mentor psychological professionals working in the NHS as part of an ethnic minority leadership mentoring programme, facilitate weekly open access wellbeing groups for Ruby Wax’s Frazzled Café and supervise case workers of a charity that supports refugees, asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds. Finally, I am currently studying for an MSc in understanding the metaphysical and cultural meanings and clinical potential of Psychedelics which I hope to integrate into my therapeutic work in the longer term.