I began my working life as a professional musician. After graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, I spent nearly 15 years playing the viola for Scottish Opera Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the mid 90's I had a major crisis involving illness and deportation from Australia where I had gone to live with my partner. Back in the UK and recovering, I started my training as an existential therapist. Having had both a former career and a life threaten illness have give me extraordinay insight and experience which I use in my practice as a therapist.
I now combine this work with playing the viola on a semi professional and ameteur basis and have joined the London International Orchestra and the Nonesuch Orchestra. At some point I would like to teach the violin and the viola.
During and after my training I worked for Mind as a counsellor, counselling coordinator, mental health worker and Health and Well Being project worker. I now work in private practice.
Professional Membership
Registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy, UKCP (registration no. 05156946), adhering to their Code of Ethics.
Member of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association UPCA (membership no. 346)
Member of the Society for Existential Analysis
Member of the Society of Psychotherapy (Former Chair 2007-2010)
Academic Qualifications
MA in Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling, 2004 New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, London (validated by Sheffield University)
Further Professional Training
Focussing and the Edge of Awareness in Existential Therapy (2003)
Focussing as a Way of Being (2006)
UKCP/ Pink Therapy Conference May 2009)
Research Modul1 (Post MA Studies 2009 on going)
Essential in Sexual Minorities Therapy (2010)
Supervision of Sexual Minorities (2010 on going)
Existential Supervision in Existential Therapy (2011)M
I abide by the UKCP code of ethics. Click here for the full version including complaints procedure.
