Considered answers to the questions I hear most

Everything begins with a structured initial consultation. It is a substantive first session rather than a sales call: we explore what brings you, begin to understand the wider picture and consider whether the practice is the right fit. Private clinical sessions, including the initial consultation, are £250 per session; executive work and supervision are scoped separately. The first step is simply to get in touch. If you are unsure which service fits, the Seven Pillars Reflection Snapshot offers a useful two-minute starting point.

Therapy and coaching sessions are £250. Fees for executive work and supervision depend on the service, format and expected scope, and are confirmed during initial contact. They are in line with a HCPC-registered Chartered Clinical Psychologist working in London. Invoices are issued for each session.

The practice is private and self-funded. Clients are welcome to claim from their insurer where their policy allows, and I issue an invoice for each session for that purpose.

I am based in the United Kingdom and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and the practice operates under UK professional and legal requirements. Work with clients located outside the UK is considered case by case. Whether it is possible depends on the regulations of the country you are in, the nature of the work, and whether it can be delivered safely and to the same clinical standard. Please tell me where you are based in your enquiry and I will confirm what is possible.

I work with individuals aged 21 and over. Clients come to me for therapy, coaching, supervision or consultation, and include people in creative, media, sport, business and public-facing roles, as well as members of the public seeking a considered, specialist service.

You do not need to be in crisis, or unwell, to benefit from psychological work. Many people invest in therapy or coaching because they want greater self-knowledge, more sustainable performance, clearer decisions or stronger relationships. Working proactively can create space to understand patterns before they become limiting, without assuming that ordinary stress or difficult experience is illness.

Most of my clients are functioning well and choose depth work because the quality of their inner life matters as much as the visible results they maintain. The aim is not to pathologise success; it is to support the person carrying it. There is more on this in the article Why well-functioning people do therapy.

Well-functioning does not mean you have never faced adversity, or that you have everything figured out. It means you are resourced enough and ready enough to commit to the work in front of you. Some of the clients I work with have lived through significant difficulty. What they share is that they are not currently in crisis, and they have the practical and emotional bandwidth to think, reflect and act on what emerges in session. If you are unsure whether that describes you now, an initial consultation is the right place to explore it. There is no test to pass.

No, and that is deliberate. This practice offers planned, preventative and depth-oriented work. I do not actively take on new clients who are in crisis. When a client already in my care experiences a crisis, I support them to access the right care alongside our work together. If you need urgent support now, contact your GP, NHS 111, or emergency services on 999. If you are supporting someone in acute crisis, I can help you think about longer-term support once the urgent situation is in appropriate hands.

Therapy, coaching, executive and founder work, supervision and consultation, and specialist work with content creators and public-facing professionals. Each area has its own page with a fuller description: Therapy, Coaching, Executive and Founder work, Supervision and Consultation, and my flagship specialism, Creators and Public Life.

Online across the UK using secure video, or in person in London. Location is agreed at the start of our work and can be revisited if your circumstances change.

That depends on what you are bringing. Some clients meet with me for a small number of focused sessions; others engage in longer therapy. I will share a formulation and a proposed frame at the end of the initial consultation so you can make an informed decision.

Everything you share is treated as confidential and held in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the professional standards of the HCPC and BPS. The limited situations in which I might need to share information, such as a serious risk to your safety or another person’s, are explained in the initial contracting and covered in the Privacy Policy.

Discretion also runs through the practical side of the work: sessions online or in private consulting rooms, no public client lists, and testimonials published only with explicit written consent, anonymised. If your circumstances call for additional confidentiality agreements, raise it at consultation; that conversation is welcome. You can read more on the Creators and Public Life page.

I am the data controller for your personal data. Full detail of what I collect, why, how long I keep it and the rights you have sits in the Privacy Policy, in line with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

If something is not working for you, please tell me directly first so we can address it. If you wish to escalate a formal concern, you can contact the HCPC via their concerns process. Concerns about how I handle your data can be raised with the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.

Clinical Psychologist is a title protected by law in the UK. It can only be used by practitioners who have completed a three-year clinical doctorate (on top of an undergraduate psychology degree and usually several years of supervised clinical experience) and who are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. Training covers assessment, formulation, research and therapy across the full range of psychological difficulty, from everyday struggles through to severe and complex presentations.

Different professions can offer excellent work, but their training, scope and regulation are not identical. Counselling, psychotherapy and coaching each include a range of training routes and professional memberships, so it is sensible to check a practitioner’s qualifications, registration, supervision and experience. Psychiatrists are medical doctors specialising in mental health and can prescribe medication. Clinical psychology brings doctoral-level training in assessment, formulation, research and multiple therapeutic approaches, allowing the method to be selected for the person rather than the person fitted to one method. A fuller guide is available in the article Choosing the right therapist, and the right therapy.

I did not take the standard route into clinical psychology. Before my doctoral training, I worked as a healthcare assistant and domiciliary care assistant and volunteered with the Samaritans, often holding several roles at once. That period gave me a lasting respect for what supporting another person actually looks like once professional titles fall away, and it has shaped every piece of clinical work I have done since.

I am registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist and Chartered with the British Psychological Society (BPS). I am also a member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK) and the School of Pan-African Thought.

Racism, injustice, economic pressure and cultural erasure are real, and they land in the consulting room. Awareness of that reality is not enough on its own. The value of psychological practice is in the confident, effective use of frameworks that meet the person in front of you, understand the context around them, and still deliver the outcome they came for. For example, my training in the Emotional Emancipation Circles methodology developed by the Community Healing Network keeps that principle grounded in a specific, evidence-informed framework for healing the emotional injuries of racism.