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 "We cannot choose where we start out in life, but we may finish where we will" Tony Judt. 

 

"Isolation exists only in isolation, once shared it evaporates"  Irvin Yalom.

 

“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”  Carl Rogers.

 

 

If you are in immediate crisis, contact:

www.samaritans.org

www.befrienders.org

Books I recommend as a starting point
  • If Not Now, When? (Abacus Books)
    If Not Now, When? (Abacus Books)
    by Primo Levi
  • The Gift Of Therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients: Reflections on Being a Therapist
    The Gift Of Therapy: An open letter to a new generation of therapists and their patients: Reflections on Being a Therapist
    by Irvin D. Yalom
  • The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (Unabridged)
    The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (Unabridged)
    by Walter Mischel
  • H is for Hawk
    H is for Hawk
    by Helen Macdonald
  • Everything I Never Told You
    Everything I Never Told You
    by Celeste Ng

 My training and experience 

 

I have been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy for twenty-five years.  I trained in humanistic psychotherapy and counselling at Spectrum (www.spectrumtherapy.co.uk), a centre for humanistic psychotherapy in North London, where the main theoretical focus is Gestalt and Formative Psychology. I have been working with individuals and couples at Spectrum since 1987. I also work as a supervisor of psychotherapists and counsellors, and have taught on Spectrum’s psychotherapy training programme for many years as well as being Spectrum’s Director of Training from1997 to 2008.  I am accredited with the UKCP (www.psychotherapy.org.uk), am a senior accredited counsellor and supervisor with the BACP (www.bacp.co.uk), and am accredited with the UKRCP (UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists). I work to the Codes of Ethics of BACP and UKCP as well as to those of Spectrum.  I am a member of the Online Therapy Institute (www.Onlinetherapyinstitute.com) and The International Society for Mental Health Online (www.ISMHO.org) and have been using the telephone for my work for many years, and Skype since 2007.  Prior to my work in the therapeutic field, I worked in  adult education in London for over fifteen years.  I also have a BA Hons in English and American literature and a PhD in social anthropology. 

 

I am in ongoing professional supervision and continued professional development for my work.  I have professional indemnity insurance and operate subject to UK law.

 

 

If you have any other questions, please contact me via the "To contact me" tab in the left-hand column.  I will get back to you within 48 hours.