My practice centres on listening attentively to understanding you, your world and your experience as a unique individual, in a space where you can speak honestly, openly and without judgement. I believe that lasting change in therapy comes from you, and rarely from a quick or easy fix – but together we can try to bring those answers to light.

My psychodynamic training means I bring an interest in your past experiences, starting from those earlier in life and in childhood, and understanding the ways in which you might instinctively repeat patterns, defence mechanisms or certain ways of relating to yourself or others. By making space for these unconscious processes, and bringing them into your conscious view, we might open up a new way of being.

I believe that therapy should be a place where everyone feels welcome, and provides a truly unique space to explore the some of the most private, honest & vulnerable parts of yourself, in a setting that you feel you can trust to be open-minded, non-judgemental and confidential. We will only work with any labels that you might bring within the extent that they are meaningful for you, in the way that you define them, without pre-existing assumptions.

I am committed to an ethical and politically-minded practice that supports this, with an awareness of how certain therapies sometimes fails to. I will always be attentive to understanding your identity and experience in context – giving space for the ways that social, cultural and political contexts and systems have a very real impact in shaping, or limiting, how we live in the world, including experience of classism, racism or racialisation, queerphobia, transphobia, ableism or any kind of oppression, marginalisation or violence.

My work with queer and trans people is affirming and my work around gender, sexuality and relationship diversity holds those experience and identities as important without assuming they are what brings you to therapy.

Since I completed my first degree in English Literature, I’ve always lived and worked in East London.

Before training as a psychotherapist, I worked in the music industry for many years – first as a journalist, and then with artists on their live touring. I then joined an international child protection charity to promote fundraising shows, series and festivals to raise money to protect, educate and advocate for the rights of children affected by war & conflict around the world. This work included launching a series to highlight the specific challenges faced by young girls in conflict zones & events advocating for greater awareness, understanding and action around mental health support for artists and those working in the music industry.

I have always been interested in people, their stories, and the radical possibilities that might come from understanding ourselves and others with more hope, empathy and care. My research, writing and practice has always been inspired by queer, feminist & decolonial writers and theorists that I believe help us to do so.