Human Wonder

Many people are hurting emotionally, mentally or physically and despite leaps in technology, our mental health seems to be spiralling south. If someone were to ask me about my perfect day, it wouldn’t be about sitting on the beach drinking endless Mojitos, it would include working with clients and seeing their lives improve.

I’m a person who for the longest time wanted to feel like I belonged, and enough. So I embarked on the journey of career success and accomplishment, building consultancy and creative businesses in NY and London. It didn’t help and I often felt worse, regardless of failure or high growth. I equated that the more successful I would be, the more I would feel belonging. That didn’t happen.

I internalised my anxiety and had such chronic back pain for three years, I couldn’t walk down the street with my kids, could only fly standing up and scheduled corrective back surgery, Years later I had a chronic autoimmune skin condition called Lichen Planus, which caused intolerable itchy rashes across my skin, restricting my life activities. My consultant confirmed it is untreatable. Through self awareness, therapy, medical hypnosis and career changes, both of these long term chronic conditions were fully resolved.

Having been through the other side of both experiences, I want to support others who are struggling with emotional health, mental health and chronic health conditions.

Seeing someone go from suffering, experience healing and start moving in the direction of their dreams is priceless.

I care about people and want to see your life transform and flourish. You’ve taken the first brave step towards improving your life, I would like to meet you halfway, through compassion, empathy, non judgement and unconditional regard.

I am a qualified British Association Counselling Pyschotherapist (BACP level 7) and a member of the BACP coaching division.

I am an integrative therapist and coach, which means I am skilled in using different modalities (person centred, psycho-dynamic, gestalt, CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy, existential and solution focused therapy) for the individual I am working with, rather then being prescriptive with only one approach.

I use counselling therapy to work with someone who is struggling emotionally, mentally or even physically, so they can heal and rebalance. I use coaching to support them to move in the direction of their preferred future.

I have over 6 years of counselling experience, working with individuals, relationship counselling, anxiety, depression, loss, bereavement, addictions, trauma and chronic physical conditions.

I have also worked as a volunteer for Alcoholics Anonymous and 3 years as a Trustee for the Drug and Alcohol Foundation.

I have lived in three different continents, 52 years old, married for 24 years with two teenage boys. I have experienced in myself, my relationships and in running business (in London and NY), success and failure, loss and triumph, debilitating self doubt and the right degree of confidence, anxiety that has physically crippled me and through therapy completely healed, depression to the extent I did not want to wake up the next morning, and deep contentment and joy, racism and prejudice, community and belonging and meaning. Why am I sharing this? Because I am perfectly imperfect and although I have not had the same experiences as you, I can empathically relate, and confident together we can work towards a life of less surviving or striving, and one towards thriving.

Since the pandemic, I have found clients prefer to work online. I also have a physical clinic in SW London. Some of my clients prefer to meet in nature and prefer to walk and in talk in parks such as Regents Park or Richmond Park.

As I'm online, infection from Covid-19 is not a safety concern.