Me
I am a New Zealander living in the UK and an experienced individual, couple, family and group psychotherapist. I live in Southampton and work as a family therapist at Southampton General Hospital from Tues-Thurs each week, leaving Mon and Fri available for private clients.
I have been self-employed since 2005 and am willing to work with anyone who is seeking therapeutic assistance in response to issues affecting their life.
Qualifications
– UKCP Registered Psychotherapist (2024: Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy College [HIPC]; and 2026: College for Family, Couple & Systemic Psychotherapy [CFCSP])
– PhD, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia (2021)
-Certified Psychodramatist (2008) & Certificated Educator (2017), Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Psychodrama Association [AANZPA]
– Psychodrama Trainer & Supervisor (2025), British Psychodrama Association [BPA]
– Registered Family & Systemic Psychotherapist (2026), Association for Family & Systemic Psychotherapy [AFST]
My Approach
I bring a combination of systemic and humanistic approaches to my therapeutic work. By systemic I am referring to everyone and everything being connected in some way, and this draws me to focus on relationships and the interactions taking place within them, including the old and new roles that are being expressed. By humanistic I think of therapy as basically involving the empowerment or expansion of a person’s existing positive functioning rather than the pathologising of their coping or survival functioning. In this task the therapist follows the client’s story about their lives and collaborates with them to co-create new understandings and solutions that lead to the client fulfilling their purpose for coming to therapy. Therapy then becomes a shared journey of new discoveries for both client and therapist.
