About me

My first training was in integrative psychotherapy and it was an interesting and engaging few years that involved a range of modalities including psychodynamic, humanistic and transpersonal approaches combined with an emphasis on attachment theories, the body, and trauma-based models of working. There was a strong focus on relational work and the emerging field of neuroscience.

Around this time, I gained experience through working with services including Cruse bereavement, drug and alcohol services, and a Brighton-based women’s counselling service.

I joined a psychoanalytic reading group and over time, as I began to read and discuss clinical papers with my peers, I began to realise that psychoanalytic work could give me a structure to hold the deeper unconscious processes that I had experienced with patients but could not explain. I realised that something had been missing for me and so I went back into training and my own intensive analysis for several more years.

I chose to train as a Jungian Analyst with the SAP as this involved a robust psychoanalytic approach informed by Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott, whilst offering the distinctive and individual attitude of a Jungian training. This further training has provided me with the depth and framework necessary to hold the sometimes complex aspects of what we, as both patient and clinician, try to get hold of in the work.

Professional Training & Qualifications

MA in Integrative Psychotherapy (Minster Centre)

Training in Jungian Analysis (SAP)

Member of Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP)

Member of International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)

Registered Member of British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) 26522

Member of Psychotherapy Sussex

I am researching for a Professional Doctorate in Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex