Qualifications / Experience

  • I am an Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor, qualified at The Bowlby Centre 2014
  • Mentalisation Based Therapy Practitioner (BPC / Anna Freud Centre accredited in 2020)
  • I offer Clinical Supervision (attachment-based psychoanalytic) to mental health professionals
  • I have been working at NHS Personality Disorders Services as psychotherapist since 2011
  • NHS Psychotherapist in Prison (HMP Pentonville) and closed psychiatric wards
  • Running NHS Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT) groups and individual sessions treating personality disorders
  • Conducting Clinical Assessments of patients referred to the NHS Personality Disorders Service by GPs, NHS Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and other NHS agencies
  • Teaching Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice to Trainee Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
  • Mentalization Based Therapy - Practitioner and Basic Training (Anna Freud Centre), taught by Peter Fonagy and Antony Bateman
  • MBT-A Training - Mentalization Based Therapy for Adolescents (Anna Freud Centre)
  • MA Information Experience Design at Royal College of Art
  • MSc in Sociology (Religion in Contemporary Society), London School of Economics (LSE)
  • BA (Hons) from Arts and Humanities Department at King's College London
  • ADOS-2 Autism Diagnostics (Compass)
  • Hearing Voices Group Facilitation
  • Research Officer and HR at INFORM, an information / advice centre focusing on alternative religious, spiritual, esoteric and radical movements, based at The London School of Economics / King's College, since 2006. It is one of the few independent organisations offering objective information and advice on so-called cults and sects, and working here and helping enquirers gives me a good insight into the many ways in which religion, spirituality, and charismatic individuals and groups can affect us.
  • I abide by The Bowlby Centre's Code of Ethics and Code of Practice