Most of my clients don't arrive in crisis. They arrive exhausted.
There's a particular kind of pain in knowing something is wrong and still not being able to stop. You've probably read the articles. You understand anxious attachment intellectually. You might even be able to explain your patterns to someone else. But understanding doesn't switch them off — and that gap between knowing and changing is exactly where therapy becomes useful.
I work with adults who are caught in patterns around love and relationships: anxious attachment, codependency, people-pleasing, trauma bonds, and what's sometimes called love addiction — the experience of feeling genuinely addicted to a person or to the feeling of being wanted. These aren't fringe experiences. They're just rarely named that clearly.
I hold a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy (DCPsych) from The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling / Middlesex University. My doctoral research — a hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experience of love addiction — was supervised by Dr Fabio Sani and Dr Daniela Bloom.
I am a Registered Member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy). You can verify my membership on the BACP directory.
How I work
I trained in integrative and person-centred psychotherapy, and my approach is exactly that — integrated around you, not a fixed method. I'll follow what matters most in your story at any given point, which means sessions can be exploratory, focused, or somewhere in between depending on what you need.
My doctoral research used a phenomenological approach — which is a precise way of saying I'm trained to listen to what an experience is actually like from the inside, not just what it looks like from the outside. That shapes how I work in practice: I'm genuinely curious about the texture of your experience, not just the facts of it.
I'm warm and I'll be honest with you. I won't just nod and reflect — I'll gently point out what I notice, name patterns when I see them, and challenge the stories that are keeping you stuck. At your pace, with care, but without tiptoeing around what's true.
You don't have to be sure therapy will work
Most people who contact me aren't sure. They're wondering if their problems are "bad enough," or if they're too far gone, or if they've just made poor choices and need to get on with it.
None of those things disqualify you from therapy. They're just thoughts, and they're very common ones.
What I'd say is: if you keep ending up in the same place despite genuinely trying not to — that's worth exploring. Not because something is broken in you, but because patterns that developed early in life are hard to see clearly from the inside, and sometimes having someone alongside you makes the difference.