Individual Psychotherapy

People come to therapy for many reasons. Sometimes there is a clear difficulty, such as anxiety, depression, trauma, grief or a relationship that has become painful. At other times, something is harder to name: a recurring pattern, a sense of disconnection, difficulty knowing what you want, or the feeling that the ways you have learned to cope are no longer working.

I work with adults seeking to understand what they are experiencing, the factors contributing to their distress, and what may need to change.

Areas I Work With

• Anxiety, panic and persistent worry
• Depression, low mood and emotional numbness
• Trauma and the effects of difficult or overwhelming experiences
• Grief, bereavement and significant loss
• Family estrangement and complex family relationships
• Attachment and relationship difficulties
• Anger and emotional regulation difficulties
• Maladaptive perfectionism and chronic self-criticism
• Identity, meaning and major life transitions
• Workplace stress, burnout and difficult professional relationships
• Leadership pressure, visibility and the psychological demands of high responsibility

Anxiety and Emotional Overwhelm

Anxiety can take many forms, including persistent worry, panic, hypervigilance, racing thoughts, difficulty switching off, or a sense that something constantly needs to be anticipated or controlled.

Therapy can help identify what activates and maintains anxiety, while developing practical ways to regulate distress and respond differently to thoughts, emotions and uncertainty.

Depression and Emotional Disconnection

Depression is not always experienced simply as sadness. It can appear as exhaustion, emotional numbness, withdrawal, irritability, loss of motivation or a diminished sense of meaning.

Therapy provides an opportunity to understand what may be contributing to these experiences and address the emotional, behavioural and relational factors that can keep them in place.

Trauma and Difficult Past Experiences

Traumatic or overwhelming experiences can continue to influence the present long after the circumstances themselves have passed.

Their effects may include hypervigilance, avoidance, shame, difficulties with trust or intimacy, strong emotional reactions, or feeling unsafe in situations that objectively pose little threat.

Therapy can help process these experiences and reduce the extent to which the past continues to shape present-day emotional responses, relationships and behaviour.

Grief, Loss and Life Transitions

Grief can follow bereavement, but also the loss of a relationship, family connection, role, identity, imagined future or significant stage of life.

There is no single way to grieve. Therapy offers space to process what has been lost, understand its significance and integrate the experience into life rather than simply trying to move beyond it.

Relationships, Attachment and Family Estrangement

Relationships can be a significant source of both connection and psychological distress.

I work with individuals experiencing family estrangement, difficult parent and adult child relationships, relationship breakdown, attachment difficulties and recurring interpersonal patterns.

Estrangement can involve grief, anger, guilt, ambiguity and competing needs for connection and self-protection. Therapy does not assume that reconciliation is always possible or necessarily the goal. Where appropriate, the work may support considered steps towards repair or reconnection. At other times, it may involve establishing boundaries, grieving the relationship, accepting what cannot currently be changed, or finding a way to live with uncertainty while remaining open to what may become possible in the future.

High-Pressure Work, Leadership and Public Life

Professional success, leadership and public visibility can bring psychological pressures that are difficult to discuss openly.

I work confidentially with C-suite executives, senior leaders, professionals, creatives and public figures, as well as family members navigating the relational and personal impact of these roles. This may include chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, maladaptive perfectionism, workplace conflict, relationship strain, identity concerns, moral or ethical conflict, and the demands associated with leadership, responsibility or public visibility.

For people accustomed to making decisions, carrying responsibility or being relied upon by others, therapy provides a confidential setting in which the focus can shift from managing external demands to examining their psychological and relational impact.

For partners and family members, therapy can also provide space to explore the less visible effects that demanding, high-profile or high-responsibility roles can have on relationships, family life and individual wellbeing.

My Approach

My approach is integrative, relational and experiential, informed by contemporary evidence-based psychotherapy. I draw from Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Schema Therapy (ST), adapting the work to the needs and psychological capacity of each person.

Symptoms rarely exist in isolation. Anxiety, depression, emotional reactivity and relationship difficulties may be influenced by attachment patterns, earlier experiences, protective strategies and deeply held beliefs about ourselves and others. Responses that were once adaptive can become restrictive when they continue to shape present-day experiences and relationships.

The way we work depends on what is contributing to the difficulty and what is clinically appropriate. This may involve identifying recurring behavioural and relational patterns, examining underlying beliefs, developing emotional regulation and psychological flexibility, or processing traumatic and unresolved experiences.

EMDR may be used to process distressing memories and experiences that continue to affect the present. IFS provides an experiential way of working with internal conflicts, protective responses and underlying emotional experiences that may not be accessible through insight alone. CBT, ACT and Schema Therapy may be used to understand and work with patterns of thinking and behaviour, avoidance, underlying schemas and responses to difficult internal experiences.

The work is collaborative and purposeful, with the broader aim of increasing your capacity to understand your responses, tolerate difficult emotional experiences and make choices that are less governed by established patterns.

Sessions are available in person and online.