Rewilding
Rewilding Therapy
Counselling and Psychotherapy · Archway, North London & Online
WHERE I STAND
Before I trained, I ran a bookshop.
For years my days were spent among other people's stories — the ones they bought, the ones they were living, and the ones they couldn't quite say out loud at the till but somehow left in the room anyway. The shelves were teaching me too — poetry, fiction, myth, the long histories of power, and the ones who wrote back. Some truths only travel as story. I was already doing a version of this work: attending to what a person carries and what they are reaching for.
Eventually, the reaching became mine, and I followed it down.
I work as an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist. My practice is relational, psychodynamic and imaginal, with a strong Jungian thread. Transpersonal simply means I make room for meaning, soul and the larger questions of a life, if and when they matter to you.
I don’t help people become someone else. I help them inhabit their own life more fully.
For a long time I believed the work was to understand a feeling and rise above it — to get clear, get better, move on. What I have come to trust is almost the opposite: healing tends to happen not by rising above what hurts, but by coming down into it, staying near it, and finding that it can be borne.
The Between
Relational work pays attention to more than the account of what happens elsewhere. You may go quiet when you are angry, say yes when you mean no, watch for rejection, or take responsibility for everyone else — and none of that will disappear at the therapy-room door. I listen for patterns, changes in atmosphere, and the roles each of us is being invited to take.
Moments of anger, withdrawal, idealisation or misunderstanding can show us what no retelling could. They are not failures of therapy. With enough trust, we can speak about them rather than slipping into the same old pattern without quite noticing.
You can be angry and remain. You can disagree and remain. You can need and remain.
Responsibility is not equal in the relationship: I hold the professional role, the boundaries and the duty of care. But I am not a distant expert observing you from outside. I learn here too. Both people are present. Both are affected. Sometimes the significant experience is not perfect understanding — it is discovering that misunderstanding can be brought into the open and repaired.
What words do not reach
Some knowledge arrives indirectly: through a dream, an image, a bodily sensation, a painting, a line of poetry, a memory of place, or a phrase that seems to have been waiting for you.
I take imagination seriously — not as decoration, and not as something to be pinned to a single meaning. We stay with what appears, notice the world it opens, and allow meaning to remain provisional. An image is not an answer. It can keep experience alive long enough for us to meet it.
James Hillman’s work has been important to me here: his insistence that images have their own intelligence, that psyche is not sealed inside the individual, and that explanation can flatten what it claims to understand. I bring that imaginal attention back to the body, the particular life of the person in front of me, and the actual encounter as it unfolds.
Art and drama were also part of my training. What has remained closest to my practice is the living image: a presence in the room — something neither of us owns, but both of us can respond to.
The image may change between us, and change what is between us.
Imagination is one of the ways reality reveals more of itself.
Ancestral weather
None of us arrives in the room alone.
Some people inherit stories that have been told repeatedly. Others inherit silence, vigilance, loyalties or fears that nobody has explained. Family history, migration, class, religion, race, gender, political events and ancestral survival may already be present — in the body, in what can safely be spoken, and in the role a person learned to play: the peacemaker, the achiever, the one who must not need, the one who carries everyone else.
Patriarchy shapes men, women and people beyond the gender binary — not equally, and not in the same ways.
It tells men to master feeling and women to apologise for it, and it teaches nearly everyone to fear their own underworld.
My own thinking has been shaped by an ancestral history of migration and survival, by patriarchy, and by the relationship between personal and collective suffering.
I bring this awareness without assuming I know another person’s experience from outside it. Culture and power enter the therapy where they bear upon a life; they are never used as a master key.
Remedio Varo, Planta insumisa (Unsubmissive Plant), 1961. The scientist has trained his plants into equations. One insists on a flower.
Other ground
Alongside individual psychotherapy, I have facilitated groups and trainings concerned with burnout, ecology, embodiment, conflict, power and collective care. My work within the climate movement included elected roles in organisational coordination, finance and safeguarding. It taught me a great deal about groups under pressure: how care circulates, where it fails, and what happens when responsibility becomes diffuse. I was interviewed in BACP’s Therapy Today (March 2020) about collective care and the emotional life of climate action.
Groups draw me because they make social life tangible: authority, rivalry, belonging, exclusion and care are happening between people. Group analysis was built for exactly this.
I am dyslexic. It has sharpened my respect for forms of intelligence that do not come neatly into language, and for the difference between making something clear and making it simplistic.
Training and registration
I hold an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy from Re-Vision and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling.
I trained for several years in Psychosynthesis at the Psychosynthesis Trust and the Institute of Psychosynthesis. That foundation remains important to my practice, while my later training at Re-Vision deepened and shifted it relationally, psychodynamically and imaginatively.
My psychotherapy dissertation, The Spell of Transformation, explored Circe, the Puella, patriarchy and the conditions in which change becomes possible.
In 2026–27 I am taking the Foundation Course in Group Analysis at the Institute of Group Analysis.
I am registered with the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). My practice is supported by regular clinical supervision and continuing professional development.
If you recognise yourself here, we can begin with a short call.
You can soften without collapsing.
