I haven’t always been a counsellor and psychotherapist. Indeed, I had another career before I decided to re-train. And I bring my personal qualities, along with years of experience of working creatively with people and complex ideas, to my relationships with clients.

I have always been curious about people, experiences, and ideas. I worked as an academic, focusing my research on how people from different cultures and using different languages have encountered (and continue to encounter) one another. People and their experiences of their surroundings were at the forefront of my interest as a researcher; and maintaining professional, facilitating relationships with students was at the heart of my teaching. During this time, I began to volunteer for organisations giving mental health support to vulnerable individuals.

Eventually, my path took me to re-training as a counsellor and psychotherapist. My training focused on both psychodynamic and humanist (i.e., person-centred) modalities and emphasised to me that I can harness my personality, my love of getting to know people, trying to understand the intricate, nuanced, and deeply personal, and offering myself to others to the benefit of people in need. Since 2021, I have worked with a wide range of clients, from primary-school children to adults, experiencing a diverse spectrum of problems in their lives, from working through the consequences of childhood trauma to seeking out the source of self-sabotaging, intrusive thoughts. I have also worked with clients from a diverse range of faith backgrounds. I always seek to meet new people as utterly unique individuals who, whatever their problems, need to be understood in their terms.

I hold a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Edinburgh. Before this, I completed a BA(Hons) and an MPhil at the University of Oxford and a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.

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