The consulting room is a space unlike any other. It exists, in a sense, outside ordinary time, a place where the pressures of the day are held at a slight distance, and something else becomes possible.
People come for many reasons. Some arrive in crisis, feeling that the ground has shifted beneath them. Others come more quietly, with a sense that something is not quite right.
Whatever brings you, the work begins with listening. Not the partial listening of ordinary conversation, but something more sustained and more patient.
Psychotherapy is not a quick fix. The difficulties that bring people to therapy have usually been forming for a long time, and they do not resolve themselves overnight. But engaging with them seriously can produce change that is real and lasting.
This practice works psychoanalytically, which means paying attention to the whole of a persons experience, not only what is consciously known, but what is expressed indirectly through dreams, the body, and the therapeutic relationship itself.
The relationship between therapist and client is itself an instrument of the work. What unfolds between you over weeks and months becomes a kind of laboratory in which patterns of relating can be observed, understood, and gradually transformed.
What we are doing, in the end, is a kind of careful attending. To what has been said and not said. To what returns and what cannot. Slowly. Patiently.
If any of this resonates, you are warmly invited to make contact. There is no obligation.
This practice was established after many years of clinical work in a variety of settings, community mental health, inpatient care, and private practice.
Training was in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a discipline with deep roots in the work of Freud and his successors.
Registration is with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Sessions are available in person in Oxford and London, and online via secure video.
A preliminary consultation is always offered before any commitment is made.
Individual psychotherapy is the core of this practice. Sessions are fifty minutes long.
EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, is also offered as a specialist treatment for trauma.
Consultation is available for other clinicians.
Fees are set at a level that reflects the experience and qualifications brought to the work.
The practice operates Monday to Friday.
I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, but that word covers a wide range of practices and attitudes.
Central to this way of working is the idea that much of what shapes our experience and behaviour lies outside conscious awareness.
Therapy creates conditions in which some of this material can become available for examination.
There is a particular interest here in the relationship between time and psychological suffering.
Alongside the psychoanalytic foundation, EMDR offers a specific and effective means of working with trauma.
Enquiries are welcome by email.
The practice is located in central Oxford.
When you make contact, it is helpful to say something brief about what brings you.
All enquiries are treated with complete confidentiality.
There is no obligation of any kind in making an initial enquiry.
