Online Psychotherapy

Online psychotherapy can offer a focused and confidential space to explore patterns that may feel difficult to shift through insight, or through talking to friends or family.

I work with highly driven professionals, entrepreneurs, and people in demanding roles who may be functioning well externally, yet feel something internally remains tense, stuck, or unresolved.

Many people begin therapy because of pressure, perfectionism, burnout, relationship difficulties, emotional shutdown, anxiety, shame, or patterns they understand clearly but still cannot seem to change. These difficulties may reflect deeper emotional, relational, and nervous-system patterns shaped by earlier experience.

Although my work takes place online, it is not detached or purely cognitive. I draw on Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, body-based trauma and attachment work, and an integrative understanding of how earlier experience can continue to shape present-day reactions, especially under pressure.

Online psychotherapy can help unravel and examine difficulties that may feel hard to understand or shift alone. It can start to shine some light into places that feel elusive, confusing, or even frightening.

By taking things at the right pace, what currently feels overwhelming can begin to feel more manageable. And as things become more manageable, there can be more room to create meaningful change and reconnect with yourself, your relationships, and your life.

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What is Deep Brain Reorienting?

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a specialist body-based trauma therapy that has become central to my clinical work. It is a gentle, non-invasive approach designed to access the earliest physiological responses to shock and attachment disruption, working at the level of the brainstem where defensive patterns first begin. The brainstem is the part of the brain which rapidly comes online in situations of threat or danger. This slow, gentle work can help process shock and feelings such as rage, aloneness and abandonment and is particularly suited to those who experience dissociation.

Read more about Deep Brain Reorienting. Watch Deep Brain Reorienting videos.

What is Sensorimotor Psychotherapy?

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is an advanced body-oriented psychotherapy and forms an important foundation in my trauma training. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body oriented psychotherapy that is helpful for the healing of trauma, attachment and developmental wounds. It refers to contemporary, science based understandings of the human brain, behaviour and experience. Any Somatic Psychotherapy works with the understanding that we do not experience pain, trauma, loss, shame and grief just in our head, but also in our body. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy aims to help us understand, and disentangle the organisation of our experience, heal our wounds, and become a more integrated 'whole' person.

Read more about Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

What is Transpersonal & Integrative Psychotherapy?

Transpersonal & Integrative Psychotherapy uses approaches from Humanistic, Existential, Psychodynamic, Jungian and Transpersonal schools of thought. Rather than only looking through one lens, a variety of lenses can be used to gain more clarity and insight into an individual's condition. Much will depend on what is required, and what suits each individual client.

Read more about Transpersonal & Integrative Psychotherapy.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a difference between online psychotherapy sessions and face to face psychotherapy sessions?

Like any therapy, the most important factor in achieving success is collaboration and communication. I have worked as an online psychotherapist for many years and found that whilst I won’t always be able to pick up on all body language, such as feet and hands, I can encourage you to let me know when you notice things moving and shifting! This can in turn, increase body awareness, which should be happening in the therapy anyway. Creative solutions can and do grow from limitations, and the online space can sometimes bring useful information into the work. These limitations can lead to useful explorations of relationship, distance, contact, and self. In addition, there are also advantages. For example, clients can find some things easier to say from behind a screen. Furthermore, if you are working from home, having an online therapy session means you might not have to rush out onto the streets post-session. This can allow you time to process and assimilate the work done during the session. All that being said, the important thing is, if you find that there are challenges with online psychotherapy, to name them. Read more about how to make a great video call.

Where do sessions take place?

Online psychotherapy sessions take place on Zoom.

How is online psychotherapy different from talking things through with someone I trust?

Talking to someone you trust can be valuable, but psychotherapy offers a different kind of space. It is consistently focused on you and on understanding and changing patterns that may be difficult to see or shift alone. It is about making sense of what happens emotionally, relationally, and physically, especially where the same reactions or difficulties keep returning.

What happens in an initial online psychotherapy session?

An initial session is a chance to begin exploring what brings you to therapy and whether my way of working feels relevant. You do not need to arrive with everything clearly worked out. We may talk about what is happening now, what has led you to seek help, and what you would like to understand or change. We can also discuss whether psychotherapy, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, or another way of working may be appropriate.

Can online psychotherapy help with burnout, work stress, or pressure?

Yes, where these difficulties are connected to emotional, relational, or nervous-system patterns that are difficult to shift through insight or effort alone. Some people begin because of work pressure, burnout, perfectionism, difficulty switching off, conflict, taking on too much, or feeling unable to keep going in the same way. The work is not simply about managing stress more efficiently. It is about understanding what is happening more deeply, and creating meaningful change in how you relate to yourself, other people, and your life.

Is online psychotherapy mainly talking, or do you work with the body too?

There is talking, but the work is not purely cognitive. I pay attention to how experience is organised in the body, nervous system, emotions, thoughts, relationships, and behaviour. At times, I may invite you to notice what happens physically as we speak about something. For some, this might feel challenging as they may feel nothing in their body. They may feel numbness, lack of feeling or dissociation. By working collaboratively and at a manageable pace, a lot of new and helpful information can begin to emerge.

How can body-based psychotherapy work online?

Body-based psychotherapy online involves paying careful attention to breath, sensation, posture, movement, impulse, emotion, and the nervous-system responses that may arise as we explore your experience. This can bring important patterns into awareness, and that felt understanding can become part of how change begins.

How often do sessions take place?

Sessions take place weekly and last 50 minutes. Regularity is important, especially in the early stages, because consistency can help support learning, change, and the development of new patterns.

Can online psychotherapy be short-term or longer-term?

Yes. Some people work in a focused, time-limited way. Others choose longer-term psychotherapy. If we decide to work together, we would usually begin with six to eight sessions and review as we go.

Booking & Fees

My fees for online psychotherapy are £120 for a 50 minute session.