Psychotherapy, Analysis and Supervision
I am a Jungian Analyst/Analytical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, registered with the IAAP, BPC and UKCP. I have nearly thirty years' clinical experience as a therapist.
I offer psychotherapy, analysis and supervision to individuals in the Sussex/Surrey area. My consulting room is in Horsham in a quiet location on the edge of St. Leonard's Forest .
I see therapy as a process in which together we seek to create a relationship in which all manner of troubling questions about the mind, body and soul can be explored in a spirit of curiosity, openness and honesty.
I have a long standing interest in the work of Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung and I am especially influenced by his ideas. This dates back to 1995 when, in mid-life, at a time of personal crisis, I looked for a therapist and found myself with a Jungian Analyst. Like Jung, I believe that crises are a calling for psychological development.
Since then I have completed three formal professional trainings, qualifying firstly as a psychodynamic and then as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and finally as a Jungian analyst - however, the integrity of my practice resides, first and foremost, in my own long and intensive personal analysis.
I also have a Diploma in Psychoanalytic Supervision and I am a member of the British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision.
My clinical work In recent years with ex-boarders has led to a particular interest in the long term emotional and psychological impact of sending children away from home at an early age into the care of an institution in the belief that it will be the ‘making of them’. I am interested in the widespread implications of this practice individually, intergenerationally and culturally. I work not only with ex-boarders, but also those whose parents or grandparents were boarders and those whose partners are/were ex boarders or whose lives may have been significantly impacted by this very British institution in other ways.
I have completed the specialist training for therapists with Nick Duffell and the Boarding School Survivors' team, and I now offer customised supervision with a Jungian/analytic perspective for therapists working with ex-boarders in their practice. I welcome enquiries from therapists with a psychodynamic/psychoanalytic background to discuss individual requirements.
During the time of my analysis, relatively late in life, I discovered I enjoyed writing. Three of my essays have now been published. See dedicated page 'Writing'.
Most recently, I have contributed a chapter to a new book 'The Un-Making of Them: Clinical Reflections on Boarding School Syndrome', edited by Nick Duffell and published by Routledge in April 2025. The title of my chapter is 'English Landscape: an archetypal perspective on the ex-boarder'.
I have been invited by West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy to present my chapter at an online event on Monday 1st December. Full details and booking information can be found on their website at https://wmip.org/events-and-resources/.
I have completed a two year Jungian Infant Observation Course. My paper, 'Birds, Beasts and Babies - Notes from an Infant Observation', won the Roszika Parker prize in 2013 and was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in 2014.
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I have been reading Jung's Red Book weekly with The Circle of Analytical Psychology since September 2022.
Photo of deer: Alan Mackenzie
Photo of Sally: Alex Rickard Photography