The person you'd be talking to

I found my way to this work during my degree. There is something remarkable about being handed someone's history, sitting with the parts of it that still hurt, and then working alongside them to loosen the beliefs that have kept them where they are. What we build towards is a life that hangs together, one the person recognises as their own.

During my degree I spent a semester abroad, and it changed the direction the work took for me. Being the foreigner in the room, thinking and speaking in a second language, left me interested in how culture sits inside a person's difficulties: what counts as a problem, what can be said out loud, what a family expects and what it never says.

My main axis is cognitive behavioural. I work with Schema Therapy because it belongs to that tradition and then reaches past classical CBT, borrowing from other approaches to give a wider view of a case. That matters most when what someone brings isn't recent, but a pattern that has been running for a long time.

I don't work with couples or with children. My practice is with adults, one to one.

Beyond that, some things only become clear once we've talked. If what you're bringing sits outside what I can help you with, I'll tell you in the first session and, where I can, point you towards someone better suited. That's a normal outcome of a first session, not a failed one.