My clinical training included placements across a range of mental health settings, including crisis services, psychiatric inpatient care, and complex needs environments, which gave me early exposure to the full spectrum of psychological distress and the many ways relational damage shapes a person’s inner life. That foundation informs how I work, but it isn’t where my practice has stayed.
For over a decade, the center of my clinical work has been family relationships and, in particular, the experience of estrangement.
I work with adults who are navigating the aftermath of difficult, damaging, or ended family relationships: the grief that has no clear form, the identity questions that don’t resolve easily, and the shame that tends to accompany a story people find hard to tell. What draws me to this work is its complexity. Estrangement rarely arrives as a single clean wound. It tends to be layered with ambivalence, with love that coexists with harm, and with a history that took years to make sense of and may still not be fully legible.
My doctoral research deepened that clinical focus considerably. I spent several years studying the specific experience of women estranged from their mothers who go on to become mothers themselves—exploring what gets carried between generations, how estrangement shapes a person’s sense of self and their experience of parenting, and what becomes possible when that history is finally brought into words. That research sits behind everything I do in this area. It means that when a client brings an estrangement story, I already understand something of its particular texture—the silence around it, the way it can distort self-perception, and the grief that rarely gets named correctly.
Alongside estrangement, I work with adults carrying complex trauma, relational difficulties, anxiety, depression, and the challenges that often follow a late autism diagnosis, an experience that frequently reshapes how a person understands their own family history and their place within it.
How I work
My approach is integrative and psychodynamic, with a relational and trauma-aware foundation. I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which I use for trauma processing when clinically appropriate, and I incorporate HeartMath—an evidence-based biofeedback approach—to support emotional regulation and nervous system resilience, particularly for clients whose bodies continue to carry the effects of prolonged relational stress.
I offer therapy online and work with clients in the UK, France, and internationally. I am a Chartered Psychologist registered with the BPS and HCPC and a registered Psychologue in France (RPPS). For clients in France with a mutuelle that offers partial reimbursement for therapy, I can provide receipts in French or English.