THERAPY - Caring for you
My aim is to support people to make relationships in your life more fulfilling, authentic and intentional.
I provide individual, couples and family work incorporating a compassionate approach to build resilience and emotional strength based on the work of Meli O’Brien and Tara Brach (to name but two) which I link to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and my couples work.
From a humanistic start, I moved into psychosexual and couples work and then into DBT. My DBT draws on the work of Alan Fruzzetti/Marsha Linehan and incorporates the work of Esther Perel, Bader-Pearson and others. Specifically, I use DBT and integrate the work of Bader-Pearson (Developmental Model), to help individuals / couples / others to identify patterns of disconnection, manage relationship conflict and create thriving partnerships.
I tend to work with ‘high conflict’ couples and individuals and other relationship forms (including polyamory), psychosexual issues, sexual orientation and gender.
In addition, I run a relationship skills based program to enhance communication and understanding where conflict has occurred. The goal is to be the best partner, parent, sibling, friend and relation we can be.
QUALIFICATIONS & ACCREDITATION
AccCOSRT(sen) [Senior Accredited Member of COSRT]
AccCOSRT(sup) [Accredited Supervisor COSRT]
UKCP Registered
Dip SW:
Dip HE;
PG Dip Psychosexual Psychotherapist;
PG Dip Supervision & Organisational Consultancy.
EXPERIENCE
I have worked in the NHS for 25 years. I worked in a specialist Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) personality disorder service (14 years) and as a psychosexual and relationship therapist (25 years). I work in private practice. I tend to work with high conflict couples. I supervise trainee psychosexual therapists on the London Diploma course and taught for over 10 years.
I trained at the Whittington Hospital/South Bank University and I am a senior accredited member and an accredited supervisor of the College of Sex and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) and a member of United Kingdom College of Psychotherapists (UKCP).
One thing to be clear on when you’re choosing a psychologist, is that therapists are humans too. This means no one therapist will feel ‘right’ for everyone. I want you to know that that even if we aren’t a helpful match, there will be a therapist out there for you, so please hold hope that you can be supported in the way you need.
TEACHING
DBT annual conference – Working with Couples
London Diploma in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy (LDPRT) Alumni – DBT with couples
