North London Therapist
For adults seeking to understand and address their difficulties with self‑worth, authenticity, and relationship patterns.
I provide a regulated and containing presence for your thoughts and feelings, attending to your day-to-day struggles and the deeper work of understanding and processing their origins.
Read about me, my therapeutic orientation, common issues, my fee and availability.
In-person therapy
I have a calm, private consulting room next to Dartmouth Park in N19.
Archway, Tufnell Park, and Upper Holloway stations are a few minutes’ walk. Camden, Crouch End, Finchley, Hampstead, Highgate, and Muswell Hill are close.
About me
I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
I trained at CPPD London and Regent’s University, and I have a BSc from the LSE. I previously worked as a counsellor at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and at Face2Face London.
I have regular clinical supervision, full insurance, DBS, ICO, and ongoing professional development.
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Therapeutic orientation
I am an active therapist, offering interpretations or challenges, always respecting the primacy of your truth. You likely play a role in your difficulties, and I help expand your awareness of this.
I have a broadly psychodynamic approach, informed also by attachment, relational, and existential concerns:
Psychodynamic – considers that past experiences unconsciously shape your adult behaviours and way of relating. By bringing your old patterns and inner logic into awareness, you can begin to navigate the present with greater clarity and loosen obsolete fears and defences.
Attachment – sees your relational style and emotional reactions as an outcome of how you were yourself responded to in early life. Noticing how these continue to influence your relationships today, you can learn to lessen their hold and foster more secure and fulfilling bonds.
Relational – focuses on the interaction between us as a chance to understand you better. I might share how you make me feel or the way we’re connecting, shedding light on how, for example, you disempower yourself, act performatively, or have unrealistic expectations of others.
Existential – faces the unavoidable facts of solitude, loss, responsibility, and the absence of inherent meaning. The aim is lucidity and gratitude – accepting suffering while recognising existence itself as an undeserved, astonishing gift.
Be assured that all the above is my concern, not yours. Your only concerns are yourself, your issues, your story, your feelings. In therapy, all expression is welcome: tears, humour, silence, swearing, stream of consciousness… whatever it is that comes up for you.
Common issues
You may recognise yourself in one or more of these themes, which are common among people I work with and are often interrelated:
Self-worth – a persistent sense of not being good enough. You hold yourself to punishing standards, compare yourself harshly to others, or feel fundamentally unlovable.
Identity – uncertainty about who you are beneath the role you play, eg. the compliant helper, the compulsive achiever, or trapped in class, gender, or family narratives. You feel “false” or disconnected from yourself.
Relationships – your way of relating feels compulsive, “needy”, leaving you with suppressed anger, or feeling uncared for. You repeat patterns of unrealistic expectations, over-giving, self-abandonment, or sabotaging behaviours.
Fee
My fee depends on the session time:
- £75 for sessions before 6pm.
- £95 for sessions 6pm onwards.
Availability
Please contact me for my current availability. My working hours are:
