PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY · CENTRAL LONDON
A space to understand what keeps repeating
Psychodynamic psychotherapy offers an unhurried enquiry into oneself. Together, you and I can think about your relationships, anxieties, and patterns that seem to return even when you intend otherwise.
The work creates space to notice what may be less obvious or harder to put into words, so that familiar difficulties can be interrupted, thought about, and gradually give way to something different.
I will be opening spaces for new clients in central London from January 2027. Enquiries are welcome in advance.
Working with me
A practice built on discretion and depth
I keep my private practice deliberately small. I value careful attention and the kind of therapeutic relationship that develops when the work is given time and space rather than hurried towards an outcome.
I am a psychodynamic psychotherapist with an MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from Birkbeck, University of London.
I have worked with adults across NHS and private settings, with experiences including anxiety and depression, trauma, loss, relationship difficulties, questions of identity and self-worth, and periods of life that are harder to name or make sense of.
In addition to my formal clinical training, I have spent almost a decade immersed in depth psychology and analytic work. My thinking is psychodynamic and psychoanalytic at its foundation, while also being influenced by Jungian approaches to psychological life. I am particularly interested in dreams, symbolism, imagination, the unconscious, and in the ways that parts of ourselves can make themselves known indirectly.
I continue to develop my work through regular clinical supervision, professional study and ongoing engagement with psychoanalytic and depth psychological thinking.
About the work
How psychodynamic psychotherapy works
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is about understanding the underlying patterns that give rise to persistent difficulties in our lives. Problems in mood, relationships, work, or our sense of ourselves are often shaped by earlier experiences and ways of relating that operate outside conscious awareness.
For that reason, the work is rarely quick. It takes time for recurring patterns to become visible, to be understood from the inside, and eventually to loosen their hold. Therapy offers a consistent, confidential hour in which you can speak freely and begin to notice not only what you think and feel, but what repeats in your relationships, in what is avoided, and in the ways you find yourself responding to others.
There is a particular kind of freedom that can come from understanding oneself more deeply. What remains outside awareness can often feel inevitable. We find ourselves responding in the same ways, entering the same kinds of relationships, or arriving at familiar difficulties without quite knowing how we got there. As these patterns become more conscious, they become less absolute. A space opens between what has shaped you and what you do next.
The aim is therefore not simply to cope better with the same difficulty, but to understand it deeply enough that a different response becomes possible. Change at this level is often slower, but it can also be more enduring because something in the pattern itself has shifted. It is not maintained by constant effort alone. Over time, there can be greater freedom to think, relate and choose differently.
The work can take many forms. Sometimes we may think closely about present relationships or earlier experiences. At other times, attention may turn to dreams, imagination, fantasy, bodily experience, or something that emerges unexpectedly in the room. I approach these as different routes into aspects of experience that may not yet be fully known or articulated, but which can offer insight into what lies beneath.
People often come with
Finding that relationships, work, or inner life keep taking the same shape. Even when you understand, intellectually, why.
Persistent worry, low mood, or a background sense of dread that resists simple explanation or self-management.
A sense of suspension: unable to move forward in work, love, or creativity, without a clear reason why.
Difficulty with closeness, conflict, loss, or separation, including patterns absorbed early in family life.
This is not a list of diagnoses, and you do not need to recognise yourself in any of it precisely. Many people begin with little more than a sense that something is not as it should be, and cannot yet say what.
Practicalities
How the practice works
The ordinary arrangements of therapy such as: time, frequency, fees, confidentiality are not administrative details. They form the frame that makes the work possible, and they are stated plainly here.
The practice is starting work with new clients in 2027. Enquiries are welcome now and will be answered in confidence.
Fifty minutes, once or twice weekly, at a regular time. The consistency of the frame is part of the work.
Psychodynamic work is not brief by design. Some people stay for a year; others longer. This is discussed openly and revisited.
One or two meetings to consider together whether this therapy, at this time, makes sense for you.
The standard fee is £85 per 50-minute session. Fees can be discussed where needed, and I sometimes have a small number of lower-cost spaces available. Please feel free to raise this with me.
A quiet consulting room in central London, within walking distance of several mainline and Underground stations.
Everything discussed is confidential, within the limits set by law and professional ethics, which are explained fully at the outset.
Registered with the relevant UK statutory and professional bodies, with ongoing clinical supervision and continuing professional development.
A note on timing. The practice is not yet seeing any new patients. If you are in distress now, please speak to your GP, or contact NHS 111 (option 2 for mental health services in London). In an emergency, call 999 or go to A&E. You may also find it helpful to contact the Samaritans, free at any time, on 116 123.
Contact
Making an enquiry
Enquiries are welcome for clients interested in beginning sessions in 2027. A short note is enough. Please do not include clinical details or sensitive personal information in an email or enquiry form; email is not a fully secure medium. These can be discussed in person at consultation.
Every enquiry is answered personally and in confidence, usually within two working days.
Location
Central London. Exact address provided with consultation arrangements