How I work
I work in a relational and psychodynamic way. This means paying attention to what is happening in your life now, while also being curious about how earlier relationships, trauma, loss and other significant experiences may continue to shape the present. Patterns can show up in how you relate to other people, how you respond to closeness or conflict, and in the expectations or pressures you carry within yourself.
When you feel stuck, trying harder to think, cope or push your way through can sometimes leave you circling the same place. Therapy offers a chance to pause, go beneath the surface and understand what may be keeping a pattern rooted. This is not about blaming the past. It is about making its influence more visible, so you have more freedom in how you understand yourself and respond now.
What individual therapy can make room for
You may appear capable and composed while privately feeling anxious, low, lonely, ashamed or worn down. You may find yourself repeating painful relationship patterns, struggling to be kinder to yourself, or carrying the effects of grief, trauma or a significant life event. You may also be thinking about identity, belonging, family expectations, work, or why certain feelings become especially difficult when everything else goes quiet.
You do not need to arrive with a clear explanation or know exactly what you want to change. Sometimes therapy begins with little more than a sense that something feels heavy, familiar or hard to understand alone.
Working with difference
My mixed Black heritage and lived experience shape the care I bring to questions of race, culture, masculinity, gender, faith, belonging and identity. Alongside my clinical work, I have also worked strategically on race equity, including as a Senior Race Equity Manager at Mind.
That background does not mean I will assume I already understand your experience. It means I am attentive to the ways difference can shape how safe we feel, how we relate to others, what is expected of us, and what becomes difficult to put into words. These parts of your life may be central to the work or simply one strand within it, but they do not need to be translated, minimised or left outside the room.
Training and background
I trained psychodynamically at Tavistock Relationships and I am registered with the BACP. My training taught me to listen closely for recurring patterns, to think about how relationships shape us, and to hold the connection between past and present without losing sight of what is happening in your life now.
I offer individual therapy online wherever you are, and in person from rooms near Enfield Town, Enfield Chase and Winchmore Hill. Sessions are usually weekly, at the same time each week. I will let you know the regular times I have available so we can see whether one fits alongside the rest of your life.
What it is like to work with me
My hope is that therapy feels steady, thoughtful and unhurried. You do not need to perform, arrive with the right words or hold everything together. I may ask questions, return to something that seemed important, or notice a pattern that has appeared more than once. What has been difficult to carry or understand alone can gradually become something we can think about together, at a pace that feels manageable.