I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who works with people suffering from anxiety, depression, complex bereavement, damaged confidence, relationship difficulties, worries about sexual life, creative or work-related troubles, chronic pain and any other forms of psychological distress or psychosomatic symptoms. I offer therapy for adults of all ages, either in person in Oxford or online.
I have a background as a humanities academic. After completing my DPhil in English Literature at Oxford in 1991, I taught there and at a number of other UK universities until 2018. I was an editor of the Oxford Literary Review for twelve years and remain a founding editor of Angelaki, for which I edited two psychoanalysis-related special issues: Home and Family and Hotel Psychoanalysis. My book, Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces will be reissued in paperback in 2027. I still write today.
Reading and writing are, like psychotherapy, forms of listening and speaking. They involve language, but also what moves beyond or before language. They involve attentiveness, disruption and transformation. The receptive, creative, feminine ways in which I practiced reading and writing during my years as an academic inform my life and my psychotherapeutic practice in ways I cannot always articulate.
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I completed my training at the Guild of Psychotherapists and am a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, the College of Psychoanalysts and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). The UKCP provides the ethical framework I am obliged to abide by and my clinical work is professionally supervised.
In the past, I have offered therapy at the Guild of Psychotherapists Reduced-fee Clinic, at the Charter clinic (where I also co-facilitated a regular psychotherapy group) and in the NHS.
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