About Me

After training as a counsellor, I worked in private practice as well as in the student counselling service at Bristol University, delivering a short term model of therapy. I also worked at The Bridge Foundation in Bristol in the short term (4 session) service.

I went on to complete the psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, qualifying in 2007.

I ran a busy and successful private practice in central Bristol for several years, working two, three, four times weekly with my patients.

I then, as part of the required continuing professional development that all therapists adhere to, attended a conference on Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) in Oxford, where Jon Frederickson was the keynote speaker. It transformed my ideas on how to deliver a successful therapeutic experience and I immediately signed up to the introductory course in ISTDP. 

The introductory course confirmed for me the possibilities of how working in a more focussed and dynamic way with my patients could be more successful for them in the long term, as well as cost effective.

I signed up for the next core training in 2013 qualifying in 2016. Since then I have continued to study and learn from senior international clinicians, completing four further years of training.

• Member of United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy [UKCP]

• Member of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association [IEDTA]

• Member of the Forum for Independent Psychotherapists [FIP]

• I adhere to the UKCP code of ethics