Finder

Specialises in

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Psychotherapy

• Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I am a Clinical Psychologist and a Psychoanalyst, trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. I have over thirty years professional experience, which has included working extensively both within the NHS and the private sector. This experience includes working within multidisciplinary teams; providing consultations to assess the full range of psychological and emotional difficulties; offering short and longer term individual, couple and group therapy, supervising and teaching of Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Psychiatrists and other mental health and perinatal professionals.

In my private practice, I offer psychological consultations, short, medium and longer term individual Psychotherapy and more intensive Psychoanalysis. I also offer couple therapy.

I am a Clinical Director of Facing Parenthood, the first London based Independent Service, to offer specialist psychological help to individuals and couples with emotional difficulties emerging at different stages of parenthood, from planning to have a baby, pregnancy and birth, to the experience of children leaving home, parenting adults and becoming a grand parent.

Difficulties I treat include:

Relationship difficulties

Depression

Anxiety

Stress

Trauma (both recent and childhood)

Low self esteem

Eating disorders

Psychosomatic problems

Difficulties which develop following a loss or bereavement

Psychological difficulties linked to fertility, pregnancy and birth

Ante natal and post natal maternal and paternal depression

Ante natal birth anxiety and post natal birth trauma

Attachment problems and parent-infant bonding difficulties

Parenting toddlers

Parenting through stressful phases of childhood

Challenges of Parenthood in relation to physical problems, neurodiversity or mental health issues.

Parenting through adolescence and adulthood

The experience of an 'empty nest'

Grand parenting


I am chartered by the British Psychological Society, BPS and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC and the British Psychoanalytic Council, BPC. I adhere to their code of ethics and standards of continuing professional development (CPD).

I am an Associate fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, the International Psychoanalytical Association and the Association of Infant Mental Health.

Areas of interest

Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis; Individual and couple therapy for: depression; anxiety; stress; trauma (both recent and childhood); relationship problems; eating disorders; difficulties linked to the experience of loss; perinatal difficulties; fertility issues; ante natal and post natal depression: ante and post natal anxiety; birth anxiety and birth trauma; bonding/attachment difficulties; mother/father-infant relationship problems; emotional difficulties emerging at the transition into parenthood and at different stages of parenting, including parenting adolescents and adult daughters and sons; grandparenting issues.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders

• Gynaecological disorders

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• A Balfour
• 020 8883 9078
• 020 8444 9160