you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it (GK Chesterton)

I have an Advanced Diploma (Ad Dip) and a Masters Degree (MA) in Integrative Psychotherapy & Counselling - awarded after a professionally accredited five year training. I regularly attend further courses to expand, update and improve my skills and knowledge. I am insured and regularly supervised.

As well as my private practice, I work for a counselling service in Newham and at an NHS Psychotherapy Service (SLAM NHS Trust). Until June 2008 I worked at a university counselling service. This variety  brings the privilege of working with people from many walks of life and cultures, and presenting issues.

I have a particular interest and experience in working with women who have had a loss in pregnancy or a struggle with fertility. I am a Trustee of the Miscarriage Association (with experience of support work for them).

I am registered with the UKCP and as such I am bound by its Ethics Code and subject to their professional complaints procedure. I am also a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Before arriving at all of this, I had a brief career as a solicitor in the City after teaching law at UCL, London University (I have a BA Hons Jurisprudence from Oxford University, LLM Kings College, London University). I left the law soon after I arrived at it to train as a reflexologist and pursue a part-time career as a feature/health journalist. This led me (via detours) to psychotherapy....