About Me

I have worked as a psychotherapist in private practice for over 30 years in North London. I am both a qualified psychotherapist and a consultant psychiatrist (with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS). From 2001-2026, I worked at the charity Freedom from Torture as a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and I continue to provide consultancy advice on a pro bono basis. From 2018-2025, I was a specialist medical psychotherapist for the organisation Community Housing & Therapy, which provided psychologically informed environments and therapeutic communities based on psychodynamic theory. Since 2024, I have worked as a family counsellor at Highgate Primary School. This is a joint project helping families clarify problems in the context of the child's and family's life so that appropriate and effective ways of improving the child's life can be identified.

Even though I am a qualified consultant psychiatrist, my practice is oriented toward psychotherapy. From many years of experience, I have found that a psychotherapeutic approach can be an appropriate alternative to standard medicalised models for many problems of living, particularly for those seeking to avoid the potential side effects or difficulties associated with medication.

My practice has been informed by training with existential psychotherapists Dr Aaron Esterson, author of ‘Sanity, Madness and the Family’ (with R.D. Laing) and ‘The Leaves of Spring’, and Anthony Stadlen, founder of the Inner Circle Seminars - an interdisciplinary, ethical, existential-phenomenological search for truth in psychotherapy. My work is also informed by insights from a wide range of psychotherapeutic traditions, including the work of Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung.

Qualifications

University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, MBBS 1987

Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010

GMC registered (GMC No: 3243206)

Memberships

UK Council for Psychotherapy

Society for Existential Analysis