I trained in psychotherapy after years of spiritual practice, including four years of intensive residential training at a Zen monastery in upstate New York. That experience taught me the value of silent reflection, and also its limits, which led me toward finding ways to actually talk through what I was working with internally. 

Psychotherapy training gave me both an intensive experience of being a client myself,  and a way to be of genuine use to others. I’ve since worked across a wide range of settings, including eating disorder services, sexual health services, alcohol and drug services, working with activists and NGOs, and coordinating a dialectical behavior therapy program. Having worked in private practice for the last ten years I have experience in helping people with a wide range of challenges.

Psychotherapy, when done right, changes people’s lives. I do not take this responsibility lightly, and have done extensive post-qualifying advanced psychotherapy training to help me to do the best job with you that I can do.