I have worked within the NHS for 5 years as a clinical psychologist and specialise in offering assessment, formulation and therapy for adults with physical and mental health difficulties, which often involves developing an understanding of the links between people’s physical and emotional difficulties and supporting them to manage their associated distress.

I have worked with individuals and families supporting them through different stages of diagnosis and treatment for cancer and have experience of working with a range of physical health problems, including medically unexplained symptoms. I have experience of supporting individuals with complex and often difficult to understand physical health diagnoses and symptoms such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and functional neurological disorder. Within my current role within the NHS, I work with people who present frequently at A&E or at their GP surgery to seek support in relation to their physical or mental health difficulties and support those individuals to learn different ways to manage their distress and increase their sense of control over their emotions, their relationships, and their lives.

I offer clinical supervision to other professionals and provide training and consultation. I have experience of working with individuals who have experienced trauma, often in the context of their relationships, which has gone on to impact on how they experience and cope with their emotions and how they relate to both themselves and others. I also work with couples to help them to identify and modify unhelpful dynamics and responses in their relationship, address challenges they may be facing together, and improve communication and patterns of relating.

I specialise in Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), which is an approach which has been shown to help people with a range of different problems including depression, self-harm, relationship difficulties, personality disturbance, and functional (medically unexplained) symptoms. PIT is a psychodynamic intervention that focuses on problematic patterns in relationships that are used to avoid difficult emotions, which increases the individual’s experience of emotions such as anxiety and depression. There is a focus on the relationship between the therapist and client to help the client to understand some of the problematic patterns that might exist in other relationships in their lives.

I have experience of working with children and families in different settings including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS), community and hospital based physical health settings, and forensic settings in young offender’s prisons. I have experience of working with children with a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, self-harming and suicidal behaviours, attachment and relational difficulties and a wide range of physical health problems, including medically unexplained symptoms. I offer assessment and therapy for emotional and behavioural difficulties in children from secondary school age upwards.

My work with children with physical health problems involves supporting both the child and family to understand and cope with the psychological distress associated with living with and managing a physical health problem. I have experience of working with and liaising with different services that might be involved in a child and families care such as social services, medical professionals, mental health services, and the criminal justice system.

• BA (Hons) Clinical Psychology
• Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy trained 2016
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology 2016
• EMDR trained 2019
• HCPC registered
• GDPR compliant