I believe that understanding the past will help you move forward.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a talk therapy that seeks to explore and understand your unconscious mind, and its influence on your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. I take an active role in helping you shine a light on these unconscious processes to improve your self-awareness and self-understanding. As trusting in our therapeutic relationship is crucial to the success of your therapy, I offer a non-judgmental space where you can express yourself freely.

My private practice is in Leith (Edinburgh) — I prefer to work in person, but am open to working online. I split my time between my private practice and working at Edinburgh University’s Student Counselling Service. I also tutor counsellors in training, helping them to develop their clinical skills.

I am a registered member of the BACP and follow the their Code of Ethics, and Good Practice. I have over 1,000 hours of clinical practice and am working towards BACP accreditation, undertaking a rigorous application and assessment process.

Before undertaking this training, I worked in business develoment and marketing roles, most recently at Microsoft.

I am bilingual English / French.

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My private practice is in Leith, on Maritime Street.

I have particular experience with:

  • Grief and loss

  • Identity (including gender and sexuality, neurodiversity, values and beliefs, culture, ability and disability)

  • Relationships (including relationship to self, family, non-monogamy, polyamory and kink)

  • Anxiety, stress, depression and depressive episodes

  • The decision to have – or not have – a family (including infertility, assisted fertility, adoption and surrogacy)

  • Trauma and adverse early life experiences

  • Processing autism and ADHD diagnoses (I’m a member of Counsellors Working With Neurodivergence)

I welcome the opportunity to explore these, or other, challenges in your life with you.

Qualifications and training:

  • Bright Light (Relationships Scotland): counsellor (2022—2024)

  • Human Development Scotland / Robert Gordon University: PGDip Human Relations and Counselling (2023)

  • COSCA: Counselling Skills Certificate (2021)

  • University of Stirling: BSc Computer Science & Psychology (1988)

  • I am a member of, and governed by, the BACP