Approach
Therapy offers a structured space to examine emotional and relational patterns as they unfold over time. Rather than focusing on advice-giving or surface-level solutions, this work attends to the underlying processes that shape how people experience themselves and relate to others.
People often seek therapy when understanding alone has not been sufficient, when patterns are visible but remain unchanged, or when previous approaches have not addressed what sits beneath the difficulty.
You do not need clarity, emotional fluency, or a fully formed narrative to begin. Therapy provides the structure within which understanding, movement, and change develop over time.
My practice focuses on relational patterns, attachment dynamics, and psychological material that persists despite insight, effort, or previous therapy.
In sessions, I am direct and curious. I notice patterns, ask questions that may feel unexpected, and work with what’s present rather than what’s easiest to discuss. Difficult material is not avoided, and the work often involves staying with uncertainty while meaning takes shape.
This approach is well-suited to those who recognise the gap between insight and change and who are open to working with vulnerability and complexity, even when resolution is not immediate. Therapy is depth-oriented, active, and relationally focused.
I work with individuals and couples through online therapy and offer in-person couples therapy intensives in Bristol and select UK locations.
An Integrative Therapeutic Approach
My work is integrative, grounded in psychodynamic and person-centred orientations. When working with couples, I practice primarily within Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).
Depending on what emerges, I may also draw on hypnotherapy, parts-based approaches, and attention to early relational experience, allowing therapy to respond to what’s needed.
Depth-oriented therapy examines what lies beneath presenting concerns, including:
attachment patterns shaped by earlier relationships
relational templates that operate outside awareness
psychological material that continues to influence experience despite conscious intention
The therapeutic relationship provides a consistent relational structure in which these patterns can be observed and worked with as they emerge. What becomes activated, avoided, or repeated within therapy is treated as meaningful material rather than something to move past.
This approach has developed from my training in analytical hypnotherapy and integrative psychotherapy, extending into relational and attachment-focused work. Attention to both intrapsychic and interpsychic dynamics allows therapy to address internal psychological structures alongside the relational patterns that form between self and others.
How Therapy Is Structured
Therapy is most effective when it takes place within a consistent structure. Individual and couples sessions happen weekly at a set time. Individual sessions are 50 or 80 minutes; couples sessions are 80 minutes.
I most often work with clients on a medium- to long-term basis, allowing space for patterns to emerge, be understood, and gradually reorganised. Short-term therapy may be appropriate in specific circumstances where the focus is clearly defined.
Couples therapy intensives consist of 12 hours over two consecutive days, with follow-up sessions available online to support integration and sustained momentum.
Session fees are outlined on the fees page.
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Beginning Therapy
Initial consultations are 20 minutes and take place by Zoom or phone. They offer a contained space to explore whether this way of working is appropriate for your situation and whether there is a mutual fit.
The consultation is not a therapeutic session, but an opportunity to clarify what you are seeking and to discuss how the work would be structured.