About me
Qualifications & experience
A fully accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), I began practising 15 years ago after completing a four-year MA in mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP) at the Karuna Institute in Devon. My training and subsequent work has been inspired and supported by a long-standing Zen practice and a deep interest in body/mind practices such as yoga, conscious movement and shiatsu. In 2023, I undertook a Diploma in Practising Energy Psychotherapy (EP) with Confer. This relatively new field uses a range of cognitive interventions alongside somatic techniques (including self-tapping on acupressure points) to rapidly reduce stress and trauma and calm the nervous system. I first learned about acupressure and the subtle energy system when studying Shiatsu-Do at the British School of Shiatsu in the 1990s. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, shiatsu is a form of Japanese bodywork employing pressure on the acupuncture points of the meridian system to bring balance to the body/mind. Core Process Psychotherapy draws all of this learning together, integrating deep, nonjudgemental listening with precise body/mind interventions to help resolve the entrenched habits, and the cycling of stress and trauma, that obscure the fundamental health and wholeness at the heart of being.
Central London
within walking distance of Southwark, Waterloo and London Bridge stations.
South London
within walking distance of Brixton and Herne Hill stations.