I am an experienced UKCP registered psychotherapist and BACP registered counsellor. I provide short and long term psychotherapy and counselling in Oxford and Witney to help you overcome mental health problems such as depression or low mood, anxiety, or relationship problems.

I offer therapy aimed at helping you understand yourself better, and to free you from unhelpful, painful patterns that you may unwittingly repeat. We will work together to understand the effects of the myriad of experiences you have had so far, making sense of how they have affected your life so far, and how they may continue to exert influence. We will work with the aim of freeing yourself from these anxieties and defences, to live a richer and more satisfying life.

why decide to have therapy?

We may feel lonely, or unhappy with our relationships. We may lack confidence socially, or sexually. We may be troubled with intrusive, distressing thoughts. We may criticise ourselves in our minds, never feeling contented with whatever we do.

We may have developed all sorts of ways of coping, such as exercise, meditation, talking to a good friend, but feel that these sorts of coping mechanisms aren’t so effective, and don’t get to the core of the issue.

In psychotherapy and counselling you get the opportunity to understand the way you think, and the way you relate to yourself and others. You get to understand why you might find things hard, what might be getting in the way for you, and how things can be different for you.

What therapy can help with

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationship and sexual problems

  • Addictions

  • Obsessive and repetitive thoughts and action

  • Stress

  • Gender and sexuality issues

This is not an exhaustive list. Your reasons for coming will be specific to you.

What happens in therapy

After an initial consultation, we will meet at the same time and place each week for 50 minutes.  We may meet for a pre-determined length of time, or on an open-ended basis. We can decide this during the initial consultation.

My work is influenced by a variety of therapeutic approaches: psychodynamic psychotherapy (which is my major influence), existential-phenomenology, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), and person-centred therapy.

I enable an atmosphere in which a therapeutic relationship can develop and flourish, whilst also providing the insight needed for therapeutic change to occur.