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Duration50 minutes
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Adult Individuals£70
People come to me with all sorts of things. Often it's grief, bereavement, or the end of something: a relationship, a marriage, a job, a way of living that has stopped being available. Often it's stress and burnout, or depression and low mood put down to circumstance too long. Sometimes it's low self-esteem, confidence, or the perfectionism that never lets anything be finished. Relationship and family difficulty is common ground too.
Anxiety often has no obvious object: a dread on waking, a body braced for something it can't name. People frequently describe two problems rather than one, the anxiety itself and the small avoidances built up to keep it at bay, each sensible on the day, which have quietly narrowed the week.
Work brings a lot of people here: redundancy, a role that has changed shape under you, a decision you keep circling, or the tiredness of being the person everyone brings things to.
Some of what people bring has roots in frightening experiences. I work in a trauma-informed way: going at your pace, checking rather than assuming, and treating your own sense of what's safe to look at as the guide.
I see adults of any age, one to one. I don't work with couples or families together in the room.
Sessions are fifty minutes, usually weekly, for as long or short a time as is useful.
I work in three ways: in person in Kingston upon Thames, easily reached from Surbiton, New Malden and Richmond; online across the UK; and walking therapy in Richmond Park, for people who find it easier to talk side by side and outdoors than face to face in a room.
If you're autistic or have ADHD, I don't offer assessment or diagnosis and wouldn't call myself a specialist. What I'd want to get right early is the pace, the amount of silence, and how plainly things are said, and I'd rather ask than assume.
