About
I am an experienced psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist, with specialisms in palliative psychotherapy and grief work. For over fifteen years I worked in care contexts, working with and developing services for older people, and those who are adjusting to life with a long-term condition.
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I have also worked in university counselling services, helping to make sense of both the trials and possibilities of moving into adulthood with younger people experiencing a range of emotional difficulties.
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As well as more formal settings, I practise therapy outdoors in natural settings, where nature itself offers a holding space for deep emotional work - and acts as a constant reminder of the possibility of change.
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I am a registrant with the British Psychoanalytic Council, subject to the organisations code of ethics. While I have an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy, and a PhD in the relational field of people living with dementia, I see therapeutic work as being an experience of ongoing learning of a different nature, and one in which the relationship is always central to the process of healing, growth and understanding.
Specialisms
Separation-individuation
Getting to know ourselves can be a laborious and challenging process, which sometimes involves unknowing ourselves and learning new ways of being and doing...
Nature-based practice: Living with uncertainty
All change, good and bad, awakens our anxieties as well as a sense of possibility... Perhaps life feels precarious and out of control?
Relationships and family dynamics
Relationships might be tricky, or you are so fed up; perhaps you simply want space to think about confusing dynamics and gain some clarity?
Grief work
The death of someone we love and for whom we have cared, and also endings with the living, such as a difficult divorce or messy redundancy, can be very painful processes that leave us questioning ourselves...
Traumatic experiences
Sometimes we believe we have been irreparably damaged by life's events: to be able to grieve what we have been through, while not a magic fix, can offer up the beginnings of letting go of traumatic experience and carving out a qualitatively different life.
Group working
Moving with Grief is a programme of 6 weekly meetings for people who have become bereaved following the death of a partner. The group will begin on Thursday 18 April until Thursday 23 May, taking place in the peaceful, holding environment of Braywick Nature Reserve. Please be in touch about joining the group.