Psychotherapy Training & Experience
I am fully accredited with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), and am a member of the Association of Core Process Psychotherapists (ACPP).
I have been working with clients for over six years, since February 2019.
I hold a Masters Degree (MA) in Mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy awarded by Middlesex University in collaboration with the Karuna Institute.
Until 2022, I worked for three years at a community Psychotherapy & Counselling Centre in Hackney, East London, alongside seeing private clients. Prior to the MA, I completed a year long Foundation certificate with the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, in Paddington, London.
My Journey
I have been on the path of self-awareness and embodiment since 2009, when I first received therapy and begun a meditation practice.
Alongside regular psychotherapy, important influences for me have included Buddhist Meditation, Focusing (Eugene Gendlin), Men’s work, embodied dance, and my studies (see below).
I am currently training to lead a group-based approach called Circling (or Surrendered Leadership) with an organisation called Transformational Connection.
My Studies
I am interested in the wider systems, cultures, and history, which shape our world and have led to the multiple unfolding crises of today: ecological, climate, increasing polarisation, inequality, post-truth, etc.
I've been studying Systems (or Ecological) thinking, having completed the ‘Capra Course’ in 2024, and in 2023, the ‘Principles and Practices of Deep Transformation’, based on the work of Jeremy Hunt.
Alongside all the benefits which the enlightenment and technology and global capitalism have brought, where have we gone fundamentally wrong? And how do we move towards a life-giving way of organising society?
I am also interested in and have been studying Feminist and Queer Theory in relation to psychotherapy.
I am also committed to exploring the construct of race, and whiteness, and attend a regular experiential group.
My Background & Interests
I was born in North London and have lived here most of my life, except for university and a couple of stretches abroad.
Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, I was a teacher, trainer and supervisor of secular Mindfulness trainings. As part of this, I spent a number of years working for a charity called the Mindfulness in Schools Project.
Before that I worked for several years as a secondary school teacher in East London.
I enjoy adventuring in nature, reading fiction, dance, playing football and following my local team, Arsenal.
UKCP Registered
I work in accordance with the UKCP Ethical Principles and Code of Professional Conduct. All of my work is conducted under weekly supervison by an experienced, accredited UKCP supervisor.
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