Trauma-informed counselling and psychotherapy, systemic family and couples therapy, and clinical supervision

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Recent publications

‘The Third Body: Potential Space, Sustained and Lost’, British Journal of Psychotherapy (2026)

‘The Sacrifice at Aulis: Paranoid-Schizoid Power and the Cost of Witness’, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 23(3) (2026)

‘The Use of the Partner: Object-Usage, Mutual Recognition, and the Mixed-Neurotype Couple’, Psychodynamic Practice (2026)

‘The Bricoleur in the Consulting Room: Improvisation, Uncertainty, and the Ethos of Therapeutic Presence’, European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling (forthcoming, 2027)

Summaries of the four articles, and my essays, are on the Writing page, for members.

Accredited counsellor and psychotherapist, systemic family and couples practitioner and clinical supervisor, in Nayland, Suffolk.

You may come to psychotherapy with a specific problem, with a difficulty of long standing or with a dissatisfaction whose cause you cannot find; any one of these is reason enough to begin. Psychotherapy offers relief first. What follows is slower and matters more: an understanding of your life and history wide enough to hold the problem that brought you. I shape each therapy to those who come rather than to a method, and I work within the BACP’s Ethical Framework.

 

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‘So what follows from what we’ve said? Isn’t it this, that of the other things none is either good or bad, and that of these two, wisdom is good and ignorance bad?’

He agreed.

‘Well then let’s have a look at what’s left,’ I said. ‘Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use – that is our good use – of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every person must, as seems plausible, prepare themselves by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?’

‘Yes,’ he said.

(Plato, Euthydemus 281e–282a)

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