EXPERIENCE

About Me

For more than twenty years I have worked with people at the edges of things: infertility, loss, identity, and the moments when a life or a relationship no longer quite works. People arrive with symptoms: depression, anxiety, exhaustion. Couples arrive caught in patterns they can no longer find their way out of. That is where the work begins. But it rarely centres there. It centres on what is happening beneath the surface, what has often not found words or expression. 

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I hold a PhD in Medicine from the University of Bristol and a four-year clinical Masters in Psychodynamic Practice from the University of Oxford. I also hold formal training in Jungian psychology, CBT, somatic and attachment-based approaches, and specialist clinical training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy through MAPS America.

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I take the interior life seriously: the unconscious, the symbolic, the aspects of experience that resist neat explanation. I am also deeply interested in what happens between people: the patterns we create together, what we ask of one another without knowing it, and what becomes difficult to hear. My own path has been shaped by inquiry that goes beyond the formal: by depth work and direct encounter with altered states of consciousness.

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I do not offer that as a credential. I offer it as context for the quality of presence I bring.

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I work with a small number of individuals and couples at any one time. This is deliberate. Genuine depth work is embodied work. When we work together you have my whole attention. I stay alive to that work by remaining an active researcher and thinker. The philosophical and clinical questions are never quite separate for me. I have a research project in development at Oxford University exploring psychotherapy and psychedelic experience, and I consult on psychedelic clinical trials. ​

Each individual and each couple I work with is singular. I learn from them as much as I may offer. That is not a disclaimer. It is the nature of this work.