I am an experienced practitioner and supervisor, qualified as both a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a practitioner psychologist and registered with the HCPC (Health Care Professionals council). I am also a co-editor of the climate psychology journal Explorations, a writer of non-fiction and fiction and an active member of the Climate Psychologist Alliance (CPA) and of Bristol Climate Writers.
For more than four decades, it has been my work and privilege to witness and support others in one-to-one psychotherapy, as they struggle to find a way through distress and confusion. In 2020 I moved from London to Bristol, a move which coincided with my closing my practice to new patients. I continue to offer practitioner supervision on both a regular and occasional basis at a cost of £70 per session, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding but drawing also on cognitive behavioural, attachment-based and narrative influences.
My primary focus has meanwhile shifted to the increasingly pressing psychological issues arising from climate change and ecological degradation. I am a founder member of the on-line journal Explorations: https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations
I have a special interest in the role of fiction in helping us to imagine ourselves into potential future scenarios and engage in our minds with the challenges that lie ahead. This is reflected in the ‘Cli-Fi Corner’ section of Explorations, and in my non-fiction and fiction writing. Work in progress includes a novel The Limits of the Land and a chapter for an edited book Holding the Hope (PCCS Books, pub pending.) An interview-based paper, The Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis, is pending publication in the journal Psychodynamic Practice.
I also contribute to workshops, webinars and conferences on climate and ecology-related themes, most recently to a conference on horticulture and wellbeing: Planting Hope: Therapeutic Gardening and Emotional Health (Confer 06/11/2022).
For all enquiries, whether for supervision or in relation to climate psychology, please email me on