About

I am a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist with almost two decades of clinical experience and an MSc in Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute in London. I came to this work after several earlier careers, having lived and worked in different parts of the world. I bring my understanding of the demands of working life and different cultures into my consulting room.

My background is academic as well as clinical. I worked as a university researcher and an editor, and I hold two MA degrees in the humanities alongside my psychotherapy training. For several years, I taught the Gestalt module on the post-MA Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy at Regent's University, London, and I continue to run webinars for organisations and workshops for fellow professionals on a variety of topics.

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, my home country, I have worked with companies and individuals there throughout the war: supporting leaders and their teams to keep functioning, make decisions and hold themselves together under conditions most of us have never faced. That work has contributed to my understanding of work under pressure, and of responsibility and resilience, and it informs how I work with everyone I see.

I am trilingual, working in English, Ukrainian and Russian. I see clients online across the UK and internationally, and in person in Lewes. The people I work with are usually capable and composed on the outside while carrying a great deal underneath, and they want somewhere serious to think and deal with their emotional experience. If that is what you are looking for, I would be glad to hear from you.