I have bi-lingual (English/German) heritage and I was born in Sweden. I have had the good fortune to live in different countries and to share in the stories and experiences of people from many cultures and walks of life. I believe fundamentally in the need for and the richness of communication. For many years I represented writers and directors in the creative industries: our storytellers, interpreters and communicators.
I am a Cognitive Analytic Therapist (Postgraduate Cognitive Analytic Therapy Practitioner Diploma, ACAT and Sheffield Hallam University, 2016). I love this form of therapy: it is an integrative, democratic and very practical synthesis of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic approaches, accessible by and applicable to a wide client base, both for mental health issues and on a much broader organisational level.
Within mental health, CAT has good evidence-based outcomes in complex presentations such as eating disorders or borderline personality disorder (see www.acat.org.uk). I have worked with these client groups and others in the NHS for the Integrated Psychological Therapies Team, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and also in my private practice.
I have a particular interest in a field where communication can be much more of a challenge, namely bereavement. Death comes to us all but many of us have limited capacity to deal with the life-changing impact of this most permanent of losses. I spent over 10 years in the voluntary sector for Cruse Bereavement Care, Richmond-upon-Thames (until the end of 2019) providing: 1-1 support for children, young people and adults; as a group facilitator for closed-ended bereavement support groups; and as a clinical supervisor for bereavement volunteers. I also supervised group facilitators for Facing the Future, a nationwide joint Cruse Bereavement Care/Samaritans group support project funded by the Department of Health for those specifically bereaved through suicide https://www.facingthefuturegroups.org/Home.
My interest in working beyond words also led me to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (https://www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/about.html) and more recently to Internal Family Systems Therapy (https://ifs-institute.com/about-us) . I hold a Sensory Psychotherapy Institute L1 qualification in the treatment of trauma (2019) and an IFS L1 qualification (2024). I very much value working in an embodied way with the felt senses and I strongly believe that every one of us has the capacity for healing and better living.
I work online on Zoom and/or face to face from my home base in SW London (Barnes, London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames). If you feel I might be able to help, please get in touch.
