High-impact, focused therapy that breaks lifelong patterns and builds lasting emotional change
You might find yourself constantly second-guessing decisions, saying yes when you want to say no, or prioritising others at the expense of your own needs — even when you know these patterns aren’t serving you.
Despite insight or previous therapy, these habits can persist, leaving you uncertain, over-adaptive, or unsure of your own authority. What you want isn’t just understanding — it’s a real shift in how you relate to yourself and others, feel about your choices, and stand in your own sense of self.
These struggles aren’t character flaws. They are long-standing emotional patterns that can be explored and transformed. Lasting change comes from addressing the deeper forces driving these behaviours, so you can feel more confident, grounded, and secure in yourself.
My Approach
My work is grounded in psychodynamic principles — an approach that explores how unconscious patterns and early experiences shape how you feel and relate to yourself and others today. I place strong emphasis on experiential emotional work, helping you engage with your inner experience in a way that allows real, lasting change. I also recognise the deeper, spiritual dimension of human life — the part of you that longs to grow, integrate and live more fully as yourself.
We all develop protective strategies to manage emotional pressure and maintain connection. These strategies may once have helped you feel accepted or safe, but over time they can become limiting — over-adapting, putting others first, second-guessing yourself or losing touch with your own needs and authority. Even with insight or previous therapy, shifting these patterns can feel out of reach because they operate automatically and outside awareness.
I help you recognise these dynamics clearly — and how they interfere with the life and relationships you want — with honesty and care. Together we separate the real feelings and conflicts at the core of your struggles from the self-doubt, guilt and over-adaptation that keep you stuck. By facing what has been avoided, you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence and self-trust.
We always work at a pace that feels safe and manageable. Although the work is deep, it’s carefully contained and tailored to your capacity. I help you monitor and regulate anxiety throughout each session so the process stays focused, effective and not overwhelming.
I offer genuine respect, curiosity and a strong commitment to helping you reach the root of your difficulties — working in a focused, collaborative and emotionally honest way that stays with what matters most. While the work can be challenging, it opens the way to greater freedom, a stronger sense of authority and a more grounded relationship with yourself and others.
What is ISTDP?
Much of my approach is informed by Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) — an evidence-based, emotionally focused method that helps you reach the internal drivers behind self-doubt, over-adaptation and difficulty asserting yourself. These deeper patterns often operate automatically and outside awareness, yet shape how you think, feel and respond in daily life.
ISTDP works differently from therapies that stay primarily in analysis or reflection. It focuses on what’s happening emotionally in the moment, slowing things down so we can notice the automatic habits that undermine your confidence and connection to yourself — such as people-pleasing, overthinking, second-guessing, suppressing your needs, avoiding conflict or getting caught in self-criticism.
The work involves gradually facing the emotions and realities that have been defended against, allowing you to reconnect with your own authority, feel more secure in yourself and respond with clarity rather than compulsion.
The therapy I offer is focused, compassionate and direct. It provides a clear pathway to lasting change: loosening the grip of old protective patterns, reducing compulsive self-doubt and building internal freedom. Over time, you become less driven by automatic responses and more able to make confident decisions, act from your values, and relate to yourself and others with steadiness and authenticity.
How We’ll Work Together
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At the start of therapy, we’ll establish the issues you want help with, the goals you’re hoping to reach and the emotional patterns that are getting in your way. These goals give us a shared focus — so every session is guided by what’s most important to you.
As we work together, your goals may evolve and we’ll revisit them together. This keeps the therapy responsive and anchored in what really matters, rather than drifting into conversations that don’t lead to lasting change.
As we work together, your goals may evolve and we’ll revisit them together. This keeps the therapy responsive and anchored in what really matters, rather than drifting into "chit chat" that doesn’t lead to lasting change.
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With your consent, I video record sessions so I can review and reflect deeply on our work. This video is treated as strictly confidential and used solely for professional reflection. This kind of deliberate practice — used by athletes, musicians and expert therapists — allows me to be best prepared for our next sessions and ensures the sessions are as effective as possible.
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I receive regular high-level supervision from senior ISTDP trainers and specialists. This helps ensure that the guidance and support you receive are informed, effective and precise — so that your work with self-doubt, over-adaptation, people-pleasing and difficulty asserting yourself is as clear, safe and transformative as possible.
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I’m committed to continual professional development. I am currently in the 3rd year of a 3-year Core Training in an advanced psychotherapy method – ISTDP and have recently completed an Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Course plus I attend additional workshops and short trainings. This helps me stay energised and at the top of my game — so I can offer you the highest standard of care.
Ready to take the first step?
Click below to book a free 15-minute introductory chat to briefly outline what’s been going on and see whether working together feels like the right fit.