About me

This page offers some background about my experience and qualifications, as well as how I came to practise as a psychotherapist.

Clinical experience 

Since starting practice in early 2012, I have developed skills in providing both short-term and longer-term therapy and have worked across a range of areas, including:

  • work-related stress
  • depression
  • anxiety
  • sexuality
  • neurodivergence
  • relationship difficulties
  • major life transitions
  • and low self-esteem

In addition to private practice, I have volunteered as a counsellor with LGBT+ and gay men’s health charities.

Qualifications and accreditations

I am an accredited member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and graduate member of the British Psychological Society (BPS).

My academic qualifications include:

  • an MA in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapeutic Practice from Middlesex University;
  • a MSc in Psychological Science (Conversion) from The University of Glasgow;
  • and I am nearing completion of a PhD in Counselling Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

I also have undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering from universities in South Africa. Prior to working as a therapist, I worked in environmental policy development, and before this undertook studies and research in chemical and civil engineering. I share a bit more about how I transitioned into the counselling and psychotherapy field below.

How I came to practise as a psychotherapist

My career has seen me gradually transition into the counselling and psychotherapy field.

I first became interested in meditation and mindfulness during my engineering studies in South Africa over twenty years ago. Shortly after completing these studies, I travelled to the UK. Early in my stay, I spent a number of weeks cooking, cleaning and meditating with a small community of Buddhist monks in rural Northumberland.

It was during this time that I first learned about Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP). I have always been interested in people, and there was something in CPP that really resonated with me, especially its integration of mindfulness with modern psychological approaches and theories. I share more about how mindfulness underpins my therapeutic work here. 

I remained in the UK and spent the next decade working on environmental policy development in the Scottish public sector. During this period, I also undertook part-time psychotherapy studies and in 2012 began seeing clients. In early 2016, I accredited as a psychotherapist and transitioned fully into the counselling and psychotherapy field. I successfully re-accredited with the UKCP in 2019 and again in 2024.

In 2021 I relocated to London from Edinburgh and currently see clients in person at the Bloomsbury Therapy Centre, as well as online.