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Specialises in

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Psychotherapy

• Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

About me

Therapy can be a daunting but highly rewarding venture. My highest priority is to offer a warm, trusting and non-judgmental therapeutic space where my clients can feel safe when opening up & being vulnerable. I view therapy as a collaborate process that seeks to shed light on current difficulties by exploring past experiences and recurring patterns, which people may have never questioned before.

I have worked in NHS services for 15 years and have acquired a broad range of therapeutic skills and experience working with a variety of diagnoses and clinical presentations. It was important to me to gain an understanding of the many different ways emotional distress can be expressed and the challenges and dilemmas people face at different ages, stages and transition points in their lives. I am particularly passionate about working with people who want to think deeply about themselves, in order to understand themselves and their relationships better and make meaningful, fundamental changes.

I am trained in a variety of therapeutic models and the methods and techniques I use will largely depend on your hopes for meeting with me. Most frequently, I utilise psychoanalytic ideas when offering longer-term therapy and Cognitive Analytical Therapy and Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, when offering something shorter-term. Either way the aim is to support people to develop insight; self-understanding; more rewarding ways of relating and greater authenticity.

Adult mental health, perinatal/parent mental health and gender dysphoria are my areas of specialism. I have extensive experience working with difficulties such as depression, loneliness, emptiness, stress, low self-esteem, perfectionism, the spectrum of anxiety conditions (including generalised anxiety disorder, panic, OCD), long-term health conditions (including chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic pain and HIV), childhood trauma and adults who have difficulties making or keeping satisfying relationships, or who find themselves repeatedly drawn into unhappy partnerships..

In regards to working with perinatal distress, I have worked for several years in NHS Perinatal Mental Health Services supporting parents during pregnancy & the first two years of their child's life. I have also worked as a Senior Psychologist in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), with families & medical teams caring for unwell or premature babies. I support parents who have had difficulties with conception (e.g. IVF), anxiety in pregnancy, birth trauma, NICU trauma, perinatal loss, postnatal depression, OCD and difficulties in parents' own childhoods that have been stirred up by the transition to parenthood.

I understand the transition to parenthood as a major life event. Consequently, it's common to struggle in the first year after birth. Parenting is a challenging role that evokes a myriad of emotions. Therapy can help you process this and build your confidence.

I have also worked at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service supporting children and young people with gender dysphoria and their families and in adult sexual health settings. This granted me the privilege of working with members or the LGBTQ community & with individuals who were struggling with personal & intimate issues relating to identity, sexuality & risky sexual behaviour.

See my website for more information and to book a free 15 minute telephone consultation.

Areas of interest

Perinatal Mental Health
Adult Mental Health (18+)
Gender Dysphoria/ working with the trans community
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Neonatal
Cognitive Analytical Therapy

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Collaborate Psychology Service
• 07772 514259
• info@collaboratepsychology.co.uk