How I work

An integrated approach to psychological change

Different ways of understanding the same difficulty

No single psychological perspective can fully explain the complexity of a person’s life. The work therefore draws from several therapeutic traditions, each offering a different way of understanding how patterns develop, persist, and change.

At different points, we may explore early relationships, patterns of thinking and behaviour, questions of identity and meaning, or how experience is held in the body.

“Each perspective illuminates a different aspect of the same person.”

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    Understanding patterns

    Relational and psychodynamic perspectives
    How earlier experiences shape the patterns you carry now.

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    Working with thought and behaviour

    Cognitive and behavioural perspectives
    The thinking patterns and standards that sustain pressure from the inside.

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    Meaning, identity, and direction

    Existential perspectives
    What you want from your life, not only how to function within it.

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    Embodied experience

    Somatic, mindfulness-based, and EMDR-informed perspectives
    Patterns held in the body that reflection alone cannot reach.

Understanding patterns

Relational and psychodynamic perspectives

Some of the ways we relate to ourselves and others become so familiar that they can feel like personality rather than adaptation. Looking at these patterns can help explain recurring difficulties in relationships, self-worth, emotional expression, and how we respond under pressure.

The aim is not simply to understand where these patterns came from, but to recognise how they continue to shape present experience.

Working with thought and behaviour

Cognitive and behavioural perspectives

Thoughts, assumptions, habits, and coping strategies often play an important role in maintaining difficulties. Exploring these patterns can create opportunities to respond differently, particularly where perfectionism, self-criticism, avoidance, overthinking, or over-responsibility have become entrenched.

It offers practical ways of working with patterns that continue to create difficulties in everyday life.

Meaning, identity, and choice

Existential perspectives

Many people arrive in therapy carrying questions that cannot be solved in the usual sense. They may find themselves reassessing priorities, questioning long-held assumptions, navigating major transitions, or wondering how they want to live.

This perspective explores questions of meaning, identity, purpose, responsibility, and choice, particularly when old ways of organising life no longer feel sufficient.

Embodied experience

Somatic, mindfulness-based, and EMDR-informed perspectives

Not all experience is available through reflection alone. Many psychological patterns are expressed in the body before they are fully conscious, appearing as tension, anxiety, numbness, restlessness, or a persistent sense of pressure.

Paying attention to bodily experience can provide access to aspects of ourselves that thinking alone cannot always reach, creating opportunities for new understanding and change.

How it comes together

Different difficulties call for different ways of understanding them. At various points, the work may involve exploring patterns in relationships, thoughts and behaviours, embodied experience, or questions of meaning, identity, and choice.

No single perspective is sufficient on its own. The aim is to draw from whichever lens offers the clearest understanding of what is keeping a difficulty in place and what might help it begin to shift.

Related themes are explored further in:
→ Burnout & Perfectionism
→ Relationships & Attachment

What working together involves

Most clients work with me in weekly therapy, though psychological intensives, focused consultations, and leadership and executive work are also available for those seeking a different format.

→ Explore ways of working

Sessions are available online and in Central London. If you are considering working together, you are welcome to arrange a complimentary 15-minute consultation call.

If this feels relevant

An initial consultation is a focused space to understand what is happening and whether working together would be useful.

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