Hello, and welcome to my page.
If you are facing difficulties in life, I hope to be of therapeutic support and intervention. I am attentive to each person’s unique experience of the world, including anxieties, frustrations, senses of loss, isolation, being misunderstood, unhappy, or searching for something more. Through an empathic and analytical approach, I accompany people undergoing various challenges such as inner states, couple communication, the processing of the past, or the bewilderment of an alien present.
My aim is to provide a space and a relationship to explore your ongoing experiences and to arrive at new realisations and ways of being. I work with people of diverse cultural, geographical, and social class backgrounds, with different identities and sexualities, either one-to-one or in relational counselling.
Working one-to-one, we explore, process, and seek to overcome whatever struggles you are experiencing, however subtle or strong, singular or multiple. These issues might have names or not, including anxiety, depression, life transitions, traumatic symptoms, or existential questions around meaning, choice, loss, mortality, authenticity, isolation, connection, and fulfilment.
I have particular experience working with young men in their twenties, thirties and forties with a focus ranging from self-worth to sexuality to relationships to life purpose. Without idealising suffering, I believe adversity can create opportunities for introspection, growth, and the realisation of potential.
I am trained in relational counselling and roughly half of my practice is with couples. Relational counselling allows for difficult issues to be explored in a sensitive way, setting a standard for what can be sustained outside of the therapy context. I help people in partnership to address such issues as recurring conflict, incidences of infidelity, discrepant sexual desires, divergences in parenting or attitudes towards in-laws, cultural differences, or a sense that a connection is fading in its spark. I approach relational counselling as akin to joint therapy whereby I encourage you to share inner lives, biographies, and personal
concerns in the presence of one another. This process of pausing, focusing, and sensitising to hidden sides of personality typically fosters compassion, deeper connection, and healthier communication. If the painful prospect of separation is on your mind, I provide a safe space to work through such questions.
My therapeutic approach is theoretically integrative, drawing on psychodynamic, existential, humanistic, trauma-informed, attachment-based, and cognitive-behavioural perspectives. I also draw extensively on my parallel career as an anthropologist: the cross-cultural study of what it is to be a human being within society.
I work part-time at the Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action at SOAS, University of London, and at the University of Oxford, where I have designed such courses as ‘What makes life meaningful? Perspectives from anthropology’.
I hold a PhD for a thesis, ‘Aspirations of university graduates: an ethnography in New York and Los Angeles’. My ongoing academic research and publications explore themes addressed in my therapeutic work such as the secrecy of subjectivity and young adults being unhelpfully entangled with their parents.
Specialities: relational counselling; young men; relationships and intimacy; life transitions;
meaning and purpose; culture and identity; growth and becoming.
