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 navigate holding on to a language we were brought up with but never speak? How do we stay in touch with a culture that was meaningful to our parents’ generation but seems to be a source of threat and attack in present day life? How do we move past or navigate the ingrained shame and non-acceptance that still surrounds mental illness in many cultures, whilst attending to our own pain and respecting meaningful traditions?

From my own personal experience and conversations with those I care about, exploring the pain and impact of being discriminated against or unseen has shaped who I am both as a therapist and as a person.

Central to my practice is concepts of belonging, trans generational and inter-cultural trauma as well as working with perceived difference as well hidden disability. In addition to these themes, I also have experience working 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. One of the roles I took on was facilitating creative writing workshops for human trafficking survivors. It felt poignant and meaningful to help guide these courageous women in expressing themselves and finding more freedom. 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

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

HMP PRISON SERVICE - I currently work as a core creative 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 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 for my dissertation. It focussed on how psychodrama can bridge divides and create resilience in the individual and the collective.

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

One year Acting qualification at Oxford School of Drama

B.A in Art History at University of Nottingham