Hello,
I am a chartered counselling psychologist and offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals. I have over 20 years of clinical experience with individuals in one-to-one settings, as well as with groups, and have come across a wide range of people and ways of suffering in both short-term and long-term counselling, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. I have worked as a Therapist, later Senior Associate Therapist at the London Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (LACAP) in East London for almost a decade. In 2011, I joined the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) and underwent the clinical training course in Lacanian Psychoanalysis from 2011 to 2015. I have been working in private practice with individuals for one-to-one counselling, existential and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy since 2010.
Having lived in Munich, Paris and Hamburg, my first career was in journalism and media. I have worked as a writer and editor for newspapers, film festivals and cultural magazines, and was an editor and reporter for a cultural and art TV programme in Germany.
I hold a diploma in contemporary French Literature from the Sorbonne, Paris, and an MA in Linguistics, Journalism and French Literature from the University of Hamburg. Subsequently I trained in Psychodynamic Psychodrama at the Ella Mae Shearon Institute in Cologne, Germany, and at the Scena Institute in Hamburg, Germany.
From there, I have gained extensive experience as a group therapy trainer in Psychodrama at the Scena Institute in Hamburg, facilitating seminars and training groups in psychodynamic psychodrama for clinicians, social workers, team managers, creative and freelance professionals and students.
I moved to London in 2003, where I obtained my MA in Counselling Psychology and my Post-MA Diploma in Existential Counselling Psychology at Regent’s College in 2008. As a chartered psychologist, I am a full member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and am also registered with the Health Professional Council (HPC).