BIOGRAPHY

After a first career as a businesswoman and television producer, I retrained as a Psychologist fifteen years ago, gaining my doctorate from the University of Surrey in Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Psychology in 2009.  Since then I have been working in the NHS with people who are managing a wide range of psychological distress, anything from relationship difficulties, depression and anxiety to eating disorders and those with diagnoses of ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘personality disorder’.  I have specialised in working with young people experiencing a first episode of psychosis as a Senior Psychologist. I currently work at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust with families who are affected by adoption, fostering and kinship care issues.

In 2016, I completed a four-year training in Systemic and Family Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman Institute where I was awarded an MA with Distinction.  I am an Associate Lecturer on the Psychology Doctoral programme at the University of Oxford, the University of Roehampton and Regent’s University as well as teaching on the Masters in Systemic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman. 

I am the mother of three grown-up children. I am also a grandmother

My Qualifications:

MA (University of Cambridge) in Theology and History

MSc (University of Sussex) in Experimental Psychology

DPsych (University of Surrey) in Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Psychology

MA with Distinction (University of East London) in Systemic Psychotherapy

Professional Bodies:

I am accredited by three professional bodies and am bound by their Codes of Ethics.  I also undertake their Continuing Professional Development requirements.

  • British Psychological Society (BPS)

  • Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

  • UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)