Face to face near Dhoby Ghaut, or online. A place to say what has been hard to say — and to be heard without hurry.
I am a British psychodynamic psychotherapist, in practice for seventeen years — the last sixteen of them in Singapore. Psychodynamic work differs from many talking therapies in that it aims at deep-seated change in personality and emotional development, alongside relieving the symptoms that brought you.
Where it helps, I combine this with cognitive behavioural therapy — practical, evidence-based strategies for unhelpful patterns of thought and behaviour. Understanding what moves beneath the surface, and having something workable to do about it, are not rivals. They belong together.
Registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Relocation, career endings and beginnings, separation, retirement — the transitions that unsettle more than expected.
Grief with a name, and the quieter kind without one — general feelings of sadness, loss and dissatisfaction with life.
Worry that has outgrown its causes; the pressures of working life in an intense city.
Patterns that repeat across partners, families and workplaces — and what they are trying to say.
A first session is a conversation, not a commitment — a chance to see whether the work, and the fit, feel right.
Alongside the consulting room I keep a visual art practice — paintings, smoke works, folded forms — concerned with the same question from the other side: how form emerges from what is formless. The smoke drifting on this page is made the way my fumage works are made.
A line or two about what brings you is enough. I reply personally, usually within a day or two.