About

Context, lineage, and discernment

My therapeutic work is shaped by sustained engagement with complexity: psychological, cultural, and relational, over many years.

Before training as a therapist, I worked in high-functioning professional environments. I originally trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Cambridge, before spending over a decade in financial services and later founding and leading an international education charity focused on education and empowerment for young women in East Africa. This work involved long-term responsibility, ethical decision-making, and close engagement with systems shaped by inequality, culture and power. It also required learning when to act, when to listen and when not to intervene.

Alongside this, my own background has informed a sensitivity to inner conflict shaped by cultural expectation, responsibility, and adaptation. Experiences of being “between worlds”, personally and professionally, have sharpened my attention to how identity splits form, how inner authority can be compromised and how voice and choice are often constrained long before they are consciously recognised.

My therapeutic orientation draws on depth psychology and contemplative traditions, including Psychosynthesis psychology, Buddhist-informed practice, and long-term engagement with reflective and meditative disciplines. I approach these frameworks not as belief systems, but as ways of understanding how consciousness develops, destabilises and gradually integrates over time.

My academic work includes an award-winning master’s thesis exploring Psychosynthesis as a framework for integrating challenging psychedelic experiences. Psychedelic experiences are understood within this wider context: meaningful for some, at certain moments, but never a substitute for ongoing integration, relational work and ethical discernment. My work also draws on interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychology, spirituality and science, including my role as a Shapely-Booth Scholar with the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, where I presented research on Psychosynthesis in the context of integrating mystical experiences.

Psychosynthesis now forms the core of my clinical work, particularly its emphasis on integration, Self-leadership, and the development of the Will. Therapy, as I understand it, is not about fixing what is broken, but about creating the conditions in which constrained parts of the psyche can reorganise so that life can be lived with greater responsibility, coherence, and choice.