I came to psychotherapy after an earlier career in advertising, brand strategy and the media. Before that, I studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and I think that background still shapes how I work. I have always been interested in the stories people tell about themselves: the roles we fall into, the meanings we give to experience, and the things we leave unsaid.
Therapy, for me, has something in common with close reading. We pay attention to what is being said, but also to tone, repetition, contradiction, silence, and what may be happening underneath the surface. The aim is not to reduce a life to a neat explanation, but to understand it with greater depth and complexity.
I trained at Columbia University and the William Alanson White Institute, where I continue postgraduate study in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy. My approach is psychodynamic and relational: I am interested not only in the difficulties someone is experiencing now, but in the relationships and patterns that have shaped how they understand themselves and other people.
I am particularly interested in working with people at points of transition: when work no longer feels meaningful, when a relationship is under strain, when an old version of oneself no longer quite fits, or when a person has done many of the things they thought they were supposed to do and still finds themselves wondering, Is this it?
I also have a particular interest in working with men. Men often arrive in therapy not because they have decided they want to "explore their emotions," but because something has stopped working: a relationship, work, anger, anxiety, loneliness, fatherhood, or simply the sense that they are living at a distance from themselves. You do not need to arrive with the right language for what you are feeling. Part of the work is finding it together.
Outside the consulting room, I am drawn to literature, theatre, photography and writing. They all involve paying close attention to how people make meaning from their lives.
Education & Training
Columbia University, Master of Science in Social Work
William Alanson White Institute, Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (postgraduate study, in progress)
University of Cambridge, English Literature MA (Hons)
