About Me
I'm a therapist, psychotherapist, counsellor, and life coach, specialising in helping people understand themselves more deeply and navigate periods of change, loss, and uncertainty. Much of my work focuses on identity - particularly those times when life changes so much that you begin to question who you are, where you belong, or what comes next. I bring together psychotherapy, coaching, and my filial psyche model to help people recognise old emotional patterns, strengthen their relationship with themselves, and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and self-trust.
MY STORY
Why do I work this way?
My own experience has taught me that change doesn't only affect what is happening around us. It can also stir old beliefs, fears, and emotional patterns that have been carried for many years. That is why my work brings together psychotherapy, coaching, and the filial psyche.
I help people understand the different parts of themselves - the vulnerable part that carries old emotional pain, the inner critic that tries to protect through fear and self-judgement, and the adult and nurturing parent that can bring greater clarity, reassurance, and self-trust.
For me, the aim is not simply to help someone feel better in the moment. It is to help them build a stronger relationship with themselves, so they can move through change without losing who they are.
My journey to becoming an identity coach and therapist began in a very different profession. For many years, I worked as an optometrist and ran my own businesses. Following a divorce in my early 40s, my life took a different direction, and I retrained as a counsellor and psychotherapist. Later, after a brief retirement, I trained as a life coach. That became another important turning point. Coaching did more than add to my professional skills - it helped me look more closely at my own identity and at the roles, expectations, and emotional patterns I had carried through life.
My interest in identity also has much earlier roots. My father left when I was very young, I spent time in a children's home, and at 7 I went to boarding school. Those early experiences shaped how I learned to survive emotionally and contributed to a lifelong search for belonging, achievement, and a stronger sense of self.
Over time, both personally and professionally, I came to understand that we do not simply "lose" ourselves. Our sense of who we are can become buried beneath old beliefs, protective patterns, and ways of living that once helped us cope. That understanding sits at the heart of my work today: helping people reconnect with themselves and build a life that feels more authentically their own.
Author of “How Therapy Works” Understanding Ourselves, Our Patterns, and How Change Becomes Possible.