Therapy & Services
The therapies I offer
I'm trained in several evidence-based therapies. Which one we use — or which combination — is something we decide together, based on what's troubling you and what the research supports.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a talking therapy built on a simple observation: our thoughts, feelings, behaviours, physical responses and circumstances are all connected, and together they can trap us in a cycle that feeds itself.
It's focused on the here and now. We'll look at the past where it helps explain why certain patterns formed, but the work is about breaking the current cycle — taking an overwhelming problem apart into manageable pieces and testing out different responses. It involves tasks between sessions, and usually some combination of examining thoughts and running behavioural experiments.
CBT has strong evidence behind it for depression, anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, PTSD and phobias.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
IPT is a structured, time-limited therapy developed mainly for depression. Its central idea is that low mood is often a response to what's happening in our relationships — and that low mood then changes those relationships in turn.
Someone who's depressed might withdraw and turn down help, perhaps out of shame. The people around them feel rejected and confused, so they stop offering. The depressed person reads that as proof that nobody wants them there. The cycle closes.
IPT works on four areas: conflict with another person; life changes that alter how you see yourself and others; grief and loss; and difficulty starting or sustaining relationships.
EMDR
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is a method for processing painful and traumatic memories so they can settle into the past rather than keep intruding on the present.
Overwhelming experiences often aren't fully processed at the time. The memory and its feelings stay live, largely outside conscious control, which is why people can find themselves never quite getting past something — continuing to experience PTSD symptoms or anxiety, or coping in ways that cost them.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess these memories so they no longer carry the same charge.
Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy works with the core beliefs and patterns underneath recurring difficulties. Schemas form in childhood and adolescence when core emotional needs go unmet, and they can drive repeating cycles of poor coping, relationship difficulty and distress long into adult life.
It's often the right approach when a problem has proved persistent, or when the same situation keeps happening with different people.
Eating disorders
CBT-E for eating disorders
CBT-E is an enhanced form of CBT developed specifically for eating disorders. It can be used for any presentation — anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and disordered eating — and targets the processes actively maintaining the difficulty.
Treatment usually runs to around twenty one-to-one sessions over twenty weeks, with twice-weekly sessions at the start. It takes longer where someone is underweight.
Beyond the core therapies
I've completed further training and CPD in a number of areas and often work integratively, combining approaches to build an individual plan. That includes counselling skills, imagery work, problem-solving therapy, prolonged exposure for trauma, safety and stabilisation, and distress tolerance skills training.
How sessions run
All appointments are online
Sessions take place by secure video call, by telephone, or through a secure messaging platform — whichever suits you. Each session lasts 50 minutes, other than specific interventions such as EMDR, which may run longer.
Working online means you can see me from anywhere in the UK, without a commute, from a room where you already feel comfortable.
Clinical supervision
For qualified professionals and trainee clinical psychologists.
Training and consultancy
For organisations and clinical teams.
Please get in touch to discuss any of these.