Whatever brings you here - perhaps feeling depressed, anxious, unhappy in a relationship or just stuck somehow - fundamental to my approach is acceptance of you and your past. For many of us, getting what we want in life - doing what we want to do, enjoying our relationships or even just feeling OK - just isn't straightforward somehow. Despite our hopes and best efforts and even, perhaps, our awareness, things just stay the same. Yet some part of us knows we could be happier.

As children we have to make sense of the world around us. We learn how best to get our needs met, by learning how to navigate the responses and needs of those looking after us. And crucially we must learn, when those responses fail us, how to subjugate our feelings and experiences in order to get what we can. We grow into adults dependent upon, and continually reinforcing, an understanding of ourselves formed from our early childhood experiences.

But we can change. We can come to understand how we experience ourselves and how we relate to others, and how instead we might live as we want to. My psychotherapeutic approach is rooted in empathy, respect and an unconditional and non-judgmental acceptance of you and your past. Theoretically my work is primarily informed by Transactional Analysis - a set of profound models for understanding ourselves and our relationships.