When doing well isn’t the same as being well.
Whether you’ve spent years working on yourself, or never sat in a therapy room before, you may sense that something underneath is not quite right. And if understanding it properly feels like it would change everything, you’re in the right place.
You might have read the books, done the work, tried the tools. And yet something persists, a pattern you can't quite break, a distance from yourself you can't quite close, a feeling that the life you've built doesn't quite fit.
This is depth psychotherapy. Not a quick fix. Not symptom management. A proper reckoning with who you are. A serious, unhurried inquiry into why you are the way you are and what becomes possible when you truly know.
Whatever brought you here, anxiety that won't shift, relationships that keep repeating, a life that looks fine from the outside but feels hollow from the inside, something is asking to be looked at. Not managed. Not reframed. Looked at.
The work here goes beneath the presenting problem to what's underneath it: the patterns formed before you had language for them, the parts of yourself you've learned to work around rather than know, the feelings that have been waiting a long time for your attention. That's where the change happens.
Most people arrive with a presenting problem. Anxiety. A relationship that keeps going wrong. A sense of being stuck. These are real, and they matter. But they are also doors. What we're here to do is find out what each one opens onto.
The work tends to organise itself around four territories.
Anxiety: When your nervous system won't stand down
The anxiety is real. But anxiety is rarely about what it appears to be about. It is usually a signal, from a part of you that learned, long ago, that vigilance was the safest strategy.
Together we follow it to its source. Understanding what your anxiety is protecting changes your relationship with it permanently.
Depression: The weight that doesn't lift
Depression isn't always dramatic. Often it looks like going through the motions, doing everything you're supposed to do, feeling very little of it. A flatness that's hard to explain to people around you, because nothing is obviously wrong. A distance from your own life that no amount of effort or willpower seems to close.
This kind of depression is usually telling you that something in you has gone unattended for a long time. The work here isn't to push through it, it’s to give it the attention that it needs so that it can lift itself.
Relationships: The patterns that follow you from room to room
Different people, same dynamic. The same feeling of not quite being chosen, or of choosing badly, or of disappearing inside a relationship without meaning to. Relational patterns are among the most persistent things we carry, and among the most transformable. This is where some of the most significant work happens.
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Personal Development: Knowing yourself, not just knowing about yourself
There is a difference between understanding yourself intellectually and meeting yourself. Many people who come to this work can articulate their patterns clearly. What they haven't yet done is gone to where those patterns live, in the body, in the emotional history, below the level of thought. That's where this work begins.
About Me & My Practice
I am a qualified psychosynthesis counsellor and a registered and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, MBACP (Accred). My BACP membership number is 383078. I am fully insured and work within a clear ethical and professional framework.
I have spent years working with people who are ready, sometimes for the first time, to look at themselves without flinching. I can be gentle and holding. I can also be direct and challenging. What I will not do is tell you what you want to hear when something more useful is available.
I don't believe therapy should always be comfortable. I believe therapy should be transformative.
I conduct sessions in English and Romanian.
I work in London Bridge and online. Sessions are weekly, 50 minutes, and begin with a free phone conversation.
If something here has landed, don't ignore it. Most people sit with this kind of recognition for longer than they need to. There is no commitment in a phone call, only a chance to say where you are, ask what you need to, and find out whether this is the right fit.
It usually takes about 15 minutes, it's free and it's where most people begin.