How I work

My practice is organised around the Seven Pillars of Wise Mynd, a framework I developed for working with the full range of a person’s intelligence: not only the rational mind, but the body, emotions, relationships, values, culture and lineage. It is strengths and values focused, assumes wisdom is already present, and is grounded in evidence-based practice.

Explore the Seven Pillars Methodology

You will be met with warmth and without judgement. My starting assumption is that you are a whole, intelligent person who is trying to make sense of something meaningful. The work is a collaboration, not a diagnosis.

I hold complexity carefully and take my time. Every engagement begins with careful assessment and a shared formulation: a clear account of what is happening and why, arrived at together before any intervention begins. You will always know what we are working on, why we are working on it, and how we will know it is working.

I bring my full clinical range to your specific situation, drawing on many modalities rather than forcing your experience into one. I am comfortable with ambition, with contradiction, with success, and with the parts of a life that are not yet resolved. I take great care with cultural context, identity and the wider systems you move through.

My caseload is deliberately small. This is not a volume practice. It is a place for considered, unhurried, expert work with people who are serious about their own growth.

My primary therapeutic modality is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), an evidence-based approach that works at the level of memory, the nervous system and the body. EMDR is best known as a treatment for trauma, but it is not reserved for acute distress: in my practice it is most often used preventatively and developmentally, by people who are functioning well and want to resolve the experiences that still quietly shape their confidence, reactions and self-worth.

Every engagement begins with careful assessment and a clear formulation: a shared account of what is happening and why, before we decide together what to do about it. I hold multiple models simultaneously rather than forcing your experience into one, and the work is grounded in the neuroscience of stress and recovery as well as the wider systems you live and work within.

My work is informed by

From the articlesChoosing the right therapist, and the right therapyWhat protected titles actually protect, the questions worth asking any clinician, and a plain-English glossary of every approach named above.Read the essay

What we use is decided by your situation, never by my preferences.