Qualifications and Background

My first training in psychotherapy was as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in the British Jungian tradition, a blend of Kleinian and Object Relations theoretical training and the theories of Carl Gustav Jung, the esteemed Swiss Psychologist.

Alongside an extensive psychotherapy practice, I was involved for several years in the training of analytical psychotherapists, serving as Chair of the Training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy at the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy. I am a very experienced clinician, working with adults (17+) across a wide-range of psychological difficulties.

In 2017 I added to my clinical portfolio by undertaking Core Training in ISTDP and have done further advanced ISTDP trainings with Dr Jonathan Entis, Dr Robert Neborsky, and Dr Josette Ten Have de Labije, Dr Leo Russell and Alexandra Knowles.

Alongside my qualification as an ISTDP psychotherapist, in 2025 I was accredited by the International Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Association (IEDTA) as an accredited supervisor and trainer in ISTDP.

I am a multi-published translator of some of the works of C. G. Jung, including a new translation of Memories, Dreams and Reflections, Jung’s highly acclaimed biography.

Becoming an ISTDP Therapist

My embrace of ISTDP as a profound and paradigm-changing development in the psychotherapy of the unconscious can be best expressed in words from the UK’s original proponent of ISTDP, Dr David Malan:

“It needs to be stated categorically that in the early part of the 20th century Freud and the whole culture of psychoanalysis unwittingly took a wrong turning which led to disastrous consequences for the future of psychotherapy. This was to react to increasing resistance in the patient with increased passivity – eventually adopting the technique of free association on the part of the patient, and that of free floating attention and infinite patience and passivity on the part of the therapist.”

Through his ground-breaking research into these developments in therapeutic technique, Dr Habib Davanloo, the founder of ISTDP, addressed psychoanalysis’ wrong turning.

Instead of passivity and interpretation, ISTDP offers the patient more:

More mobilisation of the resistance and the healthy part of the self,

More understanding of how anxious that can make us,

More insight into what we do to escape that anxiety (our defences).

This “more” can lead to breathtaking changes and transformative psychic restructuring via deep insight into self-sabotaging patterns and through emotional experiencing.

It can lead to freedom from that often cruel and punitive inner tormenter that keeps us stuck, and from that persistent resistance to change.

Registrations and Professional Affiliations

I’m registered with the Council of Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis at the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and with the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA). I am a Professional Member of the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy where I have served in many professional roles including Chair, Journal Editor and Trainer.

I deliver Core Training with ISTDP UK where I am also a director, and I contribute to training courses by invitation in the USA and elsewhere in the UK. I have also taught widely and delivered public lectures in the Jungian Analytic Psychotherapy community.