I have been working as a therapist for the past 30 years and currently have my own practice based in the New Town in Edinburgh. I am also a supervisor in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Department at Edinburgh University and supervise practitioners and students in counselling and arts therapies.

I originally trained as a dance movement therapist in the USA, where I qualified as a movement analyst in the 1970s. I then moved to Scotland where I worked in the NHS and voluntary sector as a freelance staff trainer and consultant, and directed the first Laban Movement Analysis training program in Europe in Rotterdam, Holland.

In the 1990s I trained as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist because I wanted to understand the power of words and how they work with our inner world. I now do both counseling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy – usually on a long term basis. As an older person I am interested in how we move, change and meet the different “chapters” of our lives. Sometimes this kind of reflective space can inform how we understand our past in relation to the present in order to better go into our future. This process may need thought and time for various reasons including working through problematic questions or simply wanting to  understand something more about ourselves.

Qualifications and registrations

I qualified in Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with the Scottish Institute of Human Relations in 2002. I also completed the Supervisor Training Course at Edinburgh University in 2013.

I am registered with the following organisation:

• UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)