Depth-focused psychological therapy for clients carrying complex, shame-laden or difficult-to-explain material, offered with steadiness, pattern-recognition and thoughtful challenge by a Chartered Psychologist with 27 years’ experience.

 

This is therapy for clients who do not want to be reduced to a symptom list, a diagnosis, a neat story, or a certificate of having finally “completed” themselves. It is for clients whose inner world, relationships, histories or choices may feel too tangled, contradictory, private or exposing to bring anywhere else.

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Sometimes it is an interest, a fixation, a pull, a private preoccupation, a sense of stuckness, or something that has become sticky in the mind or in relationships.

It may also involve shame, guilt, trauma, desire, anger, grief, secrecy, loyalty, fear, identity, family, sex, power, self-protection, or the exhausting work of fitting in and being accepted.​

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​My work is with clients who need a therapist who can stay present with complexity: someone who can listen carefully, think deeply, recognise patterns, and help you look at what is happening without flattening it into something easier or more acceptable.

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Part of this is offering inclusive, non-judgemental, specialised support across the relationship spectrum from monogamy to polyamory; LGBTQ+ issues and sexual diversity including kink and BDSM.

 

​​​What this work offers​

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​Depth without being cold or clinical - This is psychologically substantial work, but it is not medicalised, worksheet-led or tick-box. Sessions are relaxed, conversational and human, while still being focused and purposeful.

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Pattern-recognition and formulation - One of my strongest skills is pattern work: noticing the roles, relationship dynamics, protections and repetitions that shape what you expect, tolerate, avoid and repeat.

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Room for what is usually edited out - There is space here for complexity, shame, guilt, taboo thoughts, dissociation, masking, secrecy, success pressure, public visibility, sexual shame, moral fear, and material that has not quite entered the room elsewhere.

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