I work both in private practise, and as a Specialist Psychotherapist in the Neurology Psychotherapy Service at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, where I work with patients with medically unexplained symptoms (non-epileptic seizures; chronic pain;dissociative episodes) which usually turn out to be of severe traumatic origin.

I am registered with the UKCP (0005469), and I am covered by the UKCP’s Code of Ethics.

I am a qualified EMDR practitioner, registered with the EMDR Association and now use EMDR in my practise to aid the processing of traumatic episodes of all kinds including PTSD.

I have also carried out a training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy,and now use these highly effective body-based techniques extensively in my work.

These body techniques sometimes involve the use of Mindfulness Meditation and practice.

I have been a practising psychotherapist since 1997.

I originally undertook a four-year training at the Bowlby Centre in London, which is a member organization of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).

I have many thousands of hours of clinical experience with all kinds of people suffering all kinds of symptoms: from highly dissociative adult survivors of prolonged sexual and physical abuse, through sufferers of severe anxiety and obsessional disorders, to the everyday ‘something is wrong with me’ sort of person.

I was accredited by Bowlby Centre in 2003 as a supervisor of other psychotherapists. I am also a training therapist: that is, I am a therapist to those who are themselves training as psychotherapists.

I am a member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

From 2002 to 2006, I was Chair of the Registration Board of the UK Council for Psychotherapy.