I was drawn to psychotherapy, partly in response to the challenge of inheriting two disparate sets of roots as well as complicated blended family dynamics. Attempting to understand and resolve these issues brought confusion and pain but ultimately huge creativity and learning. 

Each stage of life throws new challenges our way. How do we negotiate holding on to a language we were brought up with but never speak? How do we stay in touch with a set of traditions that was meaningful to our parents’ generation but can feel a source of threat and attack in present day life? How do we navigate the shame and non-acceptance that can still surround mental illness in many families, whilst attending to our own pain?

Central to my practice are concepts of belonging, trans-generational and inter-cultural trauma, as well as developing ways to repair after ruptures in relationships and find meaning in challenging experiences. In addition to these themes, I also work with the issues outlined in my ‘work with individuals section’, please find it (here).

Before re-training as a psychotherapist, I worked as an actor and spoken word artist after studying at Oxford School of Drama. Creativity and self-expression remains a pulsing heart-beat in my life.

work experience:

NHS – Honorary Trainee psychotherapist in a therapeutic community for those with a severe and complex borderline personality disorder diagnosis

COMMUNITY OUTREACH - I founded and currently run an independent, low cost psychodrama psychotherapy group which has been going for 4 years

PRIVATE PRACTICE – I’ve worked in private practice seeing individual clients since 2020

HMP PRISON SERVICE - I currently work as a psychotherapist in a rehabilitative therapeutic community with violent offenders in a high security prison

voluntary roles:

A Somalian women’s group WIT that enables the marginalised to access resources

Volunteer creative writer at Ella’s helping trafficking survivors voice their experiences

Committee member of a choir founded by torture survivors

professional and academic achievements:

I trained for 6 years at London Centre for Psychodrama where I was awarded a distinction. My dissertation focussed on how psychodrama can bridge divides and create resilience in both individuals and the collective.

I regularly attend CPD psychotherapy training events to deepen my skills and knowledge.

One year Acting qualification at Oxford School of Drama

B.A in Art History at University of Nottingham