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Qualifications

Accredited for practice by, and past trustee of, the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy and registered for practice by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Areas of Specialised Research:

• The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Addictive Compulsive Patterns of Sexual Behaviour
• The Nature and Function of Addiction
• The Impact of Addiction on Marriage and Relationships
• The Relationship between Sexual and Religious Behaviour in Faith Communities
• Qualitative Methodology and Trauma in Researching Sensitive and Distressing Subjects

Background

Before doing my training as a relationship therapist, psychotherapist and psychosexual therapist, I studied theology and worked in pastoral ministry. I left that work in order to develop my clinical and research interests in psychotherapy.

Accreditations

Positions held

Lecture topics

For more than 5 years I have been conference speaker to BASRT on supervision, sexual identity, working with men, humanistic approaches to sex therapy, ethical issues and boundary violations.
I have taught at postgraduate level, approximately 120 days per year, on psychosexual therapy, psychotherapy, working with couples, gender identity and a wide range of other themes related to psychotherapy and sex therapy. Currently (2005) I am regular speaker at conferences in Africa and Eastern Europe.

I am both a psychosexual therapist and a generalist psychotherapist, having trained in the UK and continental Europe.
I am co-founder of the largest NHS psychosexual clinic in Europe (alongside Judi Keshet-Orr) and co-author of the first masters programme in psychosexual therapy in the UK. Until recently I was Consultant Psychotherapist within one of the London teaching hospitals and now hold this position in Hungary where I practice and teach regularly. I have a busy practice in North London and consult to organisations in the UK
and further afield on psychosexual issues.

My current interests include mens issues, working with female and male perpetrators of sexual abuse and sex addictions. I specialise in co-dependent couples.

I offer (in North and Central London) psychosexual therapy to individuals, couples and groups, supervision for psychosexual and couples therapists, training and consultancy on issues related to sexuality, including gender equality, sexual preference, sexual harassment. Some of my clients travel long distance (e.g. Middle East) to see me and I maintain contact between sessions over the internet.

I work in English, German and Spanish and for other languages I co-work with a translator.

Qualifications

l970 BA lst class Honours degree
l987 Certificate foundation for counselling skills - University of Hertford
l989 Diploma in Human Sexuality (distinction) St Georges Hospital Medical School - University of London
l990 International Therapy Examination Council Certificate - credit
Anatomy, Physiology and Holistic Massage
l990 Membership of British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapy (BASRT)
l990 Membership of British Association for Counselling
l991 Certificate in HIV test counselling - Barnet Health Authority Aids Education Unit
l993 Accreditation British Association for Sexual and relationship Therapy (BASRT)
l993 Registration United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
l995 Membership of National Association for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA)
l995 Membership of Association to Aid the Sexual and Personal Relationships of
people with a Disability (SPOD)
l997 Re-accreditation with BASRT
l999 Recognition as Supervisor with BASRT
2000 Registered Membership with General Hypnotherapy Register
2000 Registered Membership with Counsellors in Primary Care

Experience in counselling and sexual and relationship therapy

Voluntary sector and registered charities: with Samaritans for 20 years, in a London prison for one year, with an HIV/AIDS charity for 5 years, with Edmonton Diocese HIV/AIDS group for 2 years and with the Homeless for 5 years.

Qualifications

Registered General Nurse, Registered Sick Children's Nurse,
Diploma in Family Therapy,
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Independent Counsellor and Supervisor
British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy Accredited Therapist and Recognised Supervisor
Registered with UK Council for Psychotherapy
Fellow of BASRT

Work Experience

• Research into treatment of women with low sexual desire.
• Development of methods for resolving vaginismus.
• Initiated, with colleagues, the UK's first Postgraduate course for Diploma and MSc in Human Sexuality in and taught and supervised the students.
• Teaching the Course in Human Sexuality for Medical Students at St. George’s Hospital.
• Developed new ways of working with erection and ejaculation difficulties, integrating the physical and psychological approaches.

Positions Held

Family Planning Nurse, Instructor and Sex Educator
Honorary Co-Therapist St George’s Hospital Department of Adult Psychiatry
Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, St George’s Hospital.
Tutor in human Sexuality, St George’s Hospital Medical School.

My first career was with the British Council, working in the field of cultural relations. Through voluntary work experience with Childline, I developed a strong interest in counselling, particularly in working with survivors of childhood abuse. I was able to further develop this interest by undertaking training in general psychotherapy and counselling, and later postgraduate and advanced training in psychosexual and relationship therapy.

I established my private practice as a counsellor/sexual and relationship psychotherapist in 1998, working from a dedicated counselling room in my home in Muswell Hill.

Current Particular Interests

• Enhancing intimacy within relationships
• Overcoming phobias and anxiety (general and sexual)
• Assertiveness training
• Communication skills
• Childhood abuse issues
• Sexual addiction / compulsive behaviour

Services Offered

• Counselling/psychotherapy for individuals
• Sexual and relationship therapy for individuals and couples
• Employee counselling

Location
Muswell Hill, North London

Working Times
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 2.00pm and 8.00pm to 10.00pm

Fees
£40 - £50 per hour. Fees vary according to session times/day/evening appointments

I have worked for over 12 years in the helping professions. My background is in residential care and adult mental health in both the private and voluntary sectors and in primary care settings. For the last 5 years I have worked as a sexual and relationship psychotherapist in the NHS and privately and in mental health. I have specialized in working with individuals and couples to enhance intimacy, when people have run into difficulty often as the impact of loss and bereavement.

Current Particular Interests

• Working transculturally (across the boundaries) with issus of race, background, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, religion, class, and differing abilities.
• Building sustainable self esteem.
• Getting your needs met.
• Before you get together - the skills for success.
• Recovering from and affair/infidelity/divorce.
• Issues of shame, stemming from trauma, presenting in subsequent mental health problems or sexual and relationship problems.
• Addiction and OCD issues.

Services Offered

• Individual and Couples Therapy. (Heterosexuality not assumed)
• Supervision, Training and Consultancy for individuals, groups and organisations.
• Mixed support groups.
• Anger management group.