As a therapist, I aim to provide a reflective and grounded space in which we can begin to understand your experience together. Many people I work with feel caught in patterns that don’t seem to shift—whether this involves ongoing distress, emotional disconnection, or difficulties in relationships. These patterns often develop over time, shaped by past experiences, including trauma, and the ways in which we have had to adapt to them. When emotional needs have not been met, it can lead to persistent feelings, beliefs, and expectations about ourselves and others that are hard to change, even with effort. My approach focuses on helping you make sense of these experiences, work through what has been carried forward, and gradually develop a different relationship with yourself and others.
I take an integrative approach to therapy, drawing on evidence-based treatments according to your individual needs and goals. This may include psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), schema therapy, and other appropriate approaches. I place particular importance on building a meaningful therapeutic relationship in which your experiences can be understood, processed, and worked through in a safe and collaborative way.
My approach is suited to individuals seeking support with trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, longstanding emotional patterns, or challenges related to military and veteran life. I welcome people from all walks of life and am more than happy to have a phone conversation to discuss any questions, concerns, or curiosities you may have before booking an initial appointment.
Psychotherapies Provided
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a structured form of psychotherapy that focuses on altering unhelpful thought and behavioural patterns through rationality. This is done both through dialogue with one’s therapist and through monitoring and challenging these patterns in daily life. CBT is an evidence-based approach for depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and an array of other mental health conditions.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PET)
PET is a form of CBT that treats PTSD. It involves helping a person reduce their symptoms by minimising avoidance behaviour and exposing them to their trauma triggers and trauma memories so that the trauma can be emotionally processed.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PDT)
PDT is a form of psychotherapy that views psychological symptoms and general emotional difficulties as meaningful expressions of our unconscious mind and seeks to make unconscious processes conscious. This is done through having a meaningful and emotionally alive therapeutic relationship in which one’s moment-to-moment experience is processed and understood together with the therapist. PDT is an evidence-based therapy for depression, anxiety, and personality disorders, among other conditions.
Schema Therapy (ST)
ST focuses on altering early maladaptive schemas and the behaviours one uses to cope with them. An early maladaptive schema refers to a recurring, dysfunctional pattern of thinking and feeling that developed due to unmet emotional needs during childhood. The ways in which one copes with them (e.g., avoidance) were likely helpful for emotional protection during childhood but are no longer helpful, preventing one from having one’s emotional needs met as an adult.