My approach

I endeavour to provide a confidential and safe space in which I carefully listen to and reflect on a person’s account of the matters that are troubling them, the events in their daily life, their dreams, their  symptoms, their symbolic imagery and their art work. I carefully listen to and think about the way in which this material and other thoughts and feelings are expressed. I aspire to be sensitively attuned to the nature of the relationship between myself and my patients. I share my understanding and thoughts and invite feedback. In this way, through shared thinking and discussion, together we can try and understand the underlying issues. Over time, this process of talking, reflecting and thinking together is intended to diminish symptoms by altering the patient’s relationship with themselves. The aim is to encourage increased confidence and feelings of well-being and enhance the possibility of living a more creative and fulfilling life.

Who comes to see me?

Over the many years that I have been working, I have worked with people who seek me out with a wide variety of troubling matters. These have included depression, anxiety, bereavement and loss, sexual difficulties and confusions; sexual, emotional, psychological and physical abuse; self-harm, eating disorders, migration, loss, PTSD, Complex trauma including Holocaust trauma and Intergenerational trauma.   Sometimes people seek me out because although on the surface everything looks fine, deep down they have a feeling that something is not right, or their lives feel meaningless. My experience is that whatever the named issues that people bring, they feel profoundly and painfully alone with themselves and their troubles.