The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived — nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died — through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer.
James Baldwin
Giving ourselves the time and space to breathe, to think, and to remember – all in the presence of an empathic other person – can help us to reconnect with our internal worlds, and with what we need from life and from relationships, in the here and now.
Some of the issues I work with include:
- Addiction (including work addiction, sexual addiction, and compulsive emotional enmeshment)
- Anxiety, panic, and feelings of emptiness
- Attachment, sexuality, and intimacy problems
- Childhood betrayal, neglect, and abuse
- Class-related/cultural displacement and “passing”
- Depression, dissociation, and false self functioning
- Homophobia, bi-erasure, and intersectional oppression
- Overwhelm, self-sabotage, and rage
- Parental narcissism and familial dysfunction
- Racialised injury and internalised racism
- Sex, gender, and the navigation of non-binary identities
- Toxic shame, shamelessness, and transferred guilt
- Trauma (including complex trauma, developmental trauma, inter-generational trauma, and racialised trauma).
I work in English or French.
My standard fee is £100 for a 50-minute session, but I will consider a higher or lower fee, depending on your income, outgoings, and frequency of treatment. For our first meeting, during which we decide together if and how we might proceed, I allow 90 minutes for the consultation and charge the standard fee.
I offer therapy online, with potential availability for in-person sessions in Brighton.
I am a member of the Editorial Boards of the peer-reviewed journals Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and I am the Co-Editor of the Miscellany section of the peer-reviewed journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. I organised the conference Sanity, Madness and the Family: An Urgent Retrospective, exploring the cultural, therapeutic and psychiatric legacies of R.D. Laing’s and Aaron Esterson’s classic 1964 study of “schizophrenia” and its relation to scapegoating in family life. You can listen to that conference here and you can find the papers in published form, with an additional contribution by Hilary Mantel, here. In a related vein, you can hear me talking to June Allen about psychotherapy and recovery from racialised trauma here:
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