About Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy can help you to understand feelings of emotional distress which can be powerful and isolating and hard to deal with on your own. You might not know the reasons for the feelings or even how to describe them, but just sense that you are struggling with aspects of life or relationships and need to seek some help.  Psychotherapy offers a safe and confidential place to open up about past experience and your present situation. As trust builds in the therapy relationship a deeper and fuller understanding of yourself develops.  

Psychotherapy is really a joint endeavour of discovering and understanding that the therapist and client embark on together. As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist I offer a place to bring and explore your life experience and circumstances. Sometimes this will seem like telling a familiar story and at other times we will find ourselves in unexplored territory and thinking in new ways.  It can be challenging and painful as well as illuminating, unexpected and sometimes even light-hearted. We work together by talking, listening and remembering as we range across past and current situations, relationships, emotional states and even dreams.  I will not offer advice or judgment but aim to help you to reach a deeper level of understanding about difficulties you face and what you want to change or feel differently about.

My consulting room is in Charterhouse Square in Central London near Farringdon and Barbican stations.  Our first session will be a chance to meet and ask questions and to see how we might work together. If we agree to start therapy together we will find a regular time for sessions at least once weekly. Sessions last for 50 minutes and the fee is £75 per session.  I have some room for lower fee sessions so please ask about this in our initial session if needed.