Shaped by living abroad as much as by training

My work

For the past decade my work has involved helping adults navigate immigration, and my master’s research explored coping strategies and time perspective among adult immigrants. I work with people who are holding on to, questioning, and rebuilding their sense of identity, stability and belonging during periods of change.

Alongside this, I support people through low mood, the after-effects of difficult or traumatic experiences, grief, burnout and life crises. I work with adults and with adolescents from 14.

Training and qualifications

• MA in Psychology
• Master’s thesis: coping strategies and time perspective among adult immigrants (summary)
• Further training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles and schema-informed work

I am a psychologist (MA) and offer psychological counselling. I am not a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist, and I do not diagnose or treat mental disorders. When someone needs psychotherapy, psychiatric assessment or medication, I help them find the right specialist.

How I work

I practise with an appreciation for individual differences and keep my approach reasonably flexible. Although I studied at an Institute of Psychoanalysis, the training I took followed a traditional scientific approach rather than a psychoanalytic one.

I believe one of the most important challenges for anyone in my profession is keeping an open mind while following current research, and finding what fits each person’s circumstances. I am currently drawn to ACT and schema-informed approaches, while staying open to other well-supported frameworks.

I am deeply interested in clinical research on behaviour, the mind–body connection and neuroscience, as well as existential philosophy and linguistics.

Languages

I work in English.

Outside the room

I love botany. I find a lot of joy in running with my sighthounds and growing conifers and other plants in my large and ever-evolving garden.