Psychological therapy that helps you understand what is keeping you stuck and how to change it.
Sometimes you know exactly what the problem is. You may be experiencing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, panic, trauma symptoms or difficulties in your relationships.
At other times, it's less easy to define. You might simply recognise that you're overthinking, seeking reassurance, avoiding things, trying to stay in control or repeating patterns that leave you feeling anxious, disconnected or unhappy.
Therapy gives us the space to understand not only what is happening, but what keeps the problem going and what you can begin doing differently.
I provide evidence-based CBT and psychologically informed therapy for adults, drawing on my experience across NHS services and private psychotherapy.
Areas I work with
Worry & Anxiety
Worry can take over more and more of your life leaving you overthinking decisions, imagining what might go wrong or constantly looking for reassurance that everything will be okay. I work with generalised anxiety and worry, panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, fears and phobias. Therapy can help you understand what keeps anxiety going and learn different ways of responding so that fear and worry have less influence over the way you live.
OCD
OCD can leave you trapped in distressing thoughts and a constant need to feel certain. You might find yourself checking, seeking reassurance, avoiding things, analysing thoughts or repeating things until they feel right. Using evidence-based CBT, including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) where appropriate, we'll work towards breaking that cycle and helping you live with greater freedom and less need for certainty.
PTSD & Trauma
After a traumatic experience, it can sometimes feel as though your mind and body haven't fully recognised that the danger has passed. You may experience unwanted memories, nightmares, feeling constantly on guard, avoiding reminders or strong emotional and physical reactions. Therapy can help you process what happened, make sense of your responses and begin to feel safer in the present.
Body Image
If thoughts about your appearance take up too much mental space, you may find yourself checking, comparing, seeking reassurance, avoiding photographs or focusing intensely on particular features. Therapy can help you understand what's driving those patterns and develop a healthier relationship with your appearance. For support specifically related to cosmetic procedures, visit Cosmetic Surgery Psychology. [COSMETIC SURGERY PSYCHOLOGY]
Self-Esteem & Perfectionism
Perhaps you're very hard on yourself, feel you're never quite good enough or rely on achievement, approval or appearance to feel okay about yourself. Therapy can help you understand these patterns and develop a more stable sense of self-worth, without constantly having to prove your value.
Relationships & Attachment
Relationships can bring out patterns in us that aren't always obvious elsewhere. You may worry about being rejected, need frequent reassurance, find it difficult to trust, put other people's needs before your own, lose yourself in relationships or pull away when closeness feels uncomfortable. Together, we can understand where these patterns come from and help you develop healthier, more secure ways of relating both to other people and to yourself.
What therapy is with me is like
Therapy with me is active and collaborative.
We'll develop a shared understanding of what's happening, understand what keeps the problem going and agree what we're going to work on.
That may involve exploring thoughts and beliefs, changing behaviours, approaching things you've been avoiding, testing predictions, reducing reassurance or checking, processing traumatic experiences, understanding relationship patterns or practising different ways of responding to difficult emotions. And the work doesn't only happen during the therapy hour.
What you discover between sessions when you begin experimenting with responding differently in real life is often where some of the most important change happens.
CBT with the person kept in the picture
CBT has a strong evidence base and provides powerful ways of understanding how thoughts, emotions and
behaviour interact.
But therapy shouldn't feel like completing worksheets while somebody follows a manual.
My approach combines structured, evidence-based CBT with a broader understanding of life experiences, trauma, attachment, schemas, relationships and emotional needs where these are relevant.
The model should help us understand you — rather than trying to make you fit the model.
Online therapy
I offer individual psychotherapy online, allowing us to work together wherever you are based in the UK.
Sessions are confidential and usually last approximately 50 minutes.
Fees
Individual sessions are £100. An optional six-session package is £570, subject to agreed terms. See Contact & Fees for details.
Ready to make sense of what's keeping you stuck?
You don't need to have worked everything out before contacting me.
If you would like to explore whether therapy with me might be right for you, you can get in touch below.