About me

Despite our best intentions, we often struggle to live our lives in a way that makes us content. While taking into account the reality of external factors (e.g. societal prejudice, economic disadvantage), my approach enables people to see how they may be working against themselves. It also seeks to uncover the deeper meaning of these self-defeating patterns of behaviour, which have often grown out of early life experiences.

As a result of this work, a person has a greater sense of freedom when it comes to the choices they make in life, rather than feeling caught up in something beyond their control. The psychoanalytic approach usually requires long-term therapy because it takes time to bring our self-limiting thoughts and behaviours and what motivates them into awareness.

I am interested in a wide range of psychoanalytic thinking, including those approaches that are critical of classical Freudian or Kleinian psychoanalysis and of the discipline’s history of misogyny and of oppressing sexual minorities. My approach is also influenced by the existential and phenomenological traditions within philosophy.

I feel fortunate to live in a city as diverse as London and enjoy working with clients from a very wide range of cultural, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. As part of my psychoanalytic training and my wider self-development, I am engaged in learning about the impact of institutional and societal discrimination, including racism, and reflecting on my position as a white, cisgendered and non-disabled man within this system.

I am a member of Pink Therapy, a therapy organisation that specialises in working with gender, sexuality and relationship differences. I am dedicated to treating every client with equal respect, whatever their sexual orientation, expression of gender or sexual preference.

I have worked with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and with people affected by bereavement, including traumatic loss (e.g. as a result of suicide, very sudden illness or accidental overdose). I have also seen patients suffering from psychosis, self-harming behaviours or eating disorders.

I am also experienced in working with adults dealing with anxiety, depression, discrimination, stress, low self-esteem, shame, addictions, domestic abuse, relationship and intimacy problems, self-injury, suicidal thoughts and anger management.

Therapy qualifications

• Professional qualification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Guild of Psychotherapists
• Member of the Guild of Psychotherapists
• Diploma in therapeutic counselling, Mary Ward Centre