I am an Individual and Couples Counsellor with extensive experience in offering short and long-term therapy in South London. I see therapy is a space to discover what has happened to you, rather than what is wrong with you and I am committed to my clients’ emotional safety, growth and change. I will listen to you, notice where you are stuck in an unhelpful narrative, and support you to find your own answers to move forward. I have extensive experience in offering short and long-term therapy to young people, individuals and couples. As a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and also the BAATN (Black and Asian Therapists Network), I have been working therapeutically for over 10 years; helping clients to explore and understand their past experiences, relationships and feelings. I work with childhood trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, neuro diversity, bereavement, sexuality and many other presentations.
Therapies;
I work with an integrated approach; drawing mainly on psychodynamic and person-centred thinking, receiving all my clients as individuals, and adapting my practice to their needs. I listen without judgment, with an open heart and mind. Simply being authentically alongside someone and listening attentively can have a profound impact on a person’s emotional well-being and self-worth and is a cornerstone of my work as a therapist. This, alongside an empathic, safe and confidential space for self-reflection also allows for the process of linking past and present experiences with historic emotional responses, particularly from childhood. This new awareness can result in noticeable shifts in present behaviour patterns and have a positive and lasting impact on mental health and self-care.
I work with couples to facilitate an exploration and progression of your relationship, regardless of age, race, religious beliefs, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Common relationship issues I work with are: tensions/conflicts resulting from differences (opinions, preferences, priorities and ways of being), feelings of resentment, loss of intimacy/connection and infidelity.
I see clients in my consulting rooms in Herne Hill and at the Circle Psychology Partners clinic in East Dulwich – I am afraid I do not see clients funding sessions via private medical insurance.