Clinical Director

BA in Sociology / Anthropology from the University of New Orleans
Diploma in Theology from Nottingham University
Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from London Metropolitan University
MSc in Psychosexual Therapy from the Whittington Hospital and the London South Bank University
Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the Metanoia Institute and Middlesex University
Provisional Accreditation British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Accredited for practice by the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy and registered for practice by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Chairman of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity.

Before doing my training as a relationship therapist, psychotherapist and psychosexual therapist, I studied theology and worked in pastoral ministry. I left that work in order to develop my clinical and research interests in psychotherapy.

Pastoral work involved exposure to a whole range of human circumstances; childbirth, children, adolescence, marriage, marital problems and divorce, redundancy, sickness, bereavement and death. It was in this pastoral process that I became interested in marriage and relationships. I also became interested in the problems of 'repeat behaviours' and thus into the area of addiction and compulsivity. This interest took me into specialised academic and experiential programmes of enquiry.

All great world traditions concern themselves with, among other things, identity, meaning and purpose, respect for diversity, as well as how human beings can accept or change behaviours, attitudes and feelings. Psychotherapy, drawing on historic experience as well as insights into brain function and psychological research, is the clinical application of psychological therapies to make individually tailored contributions towards the same ends.

Issues of gender, orientation, sexual functioning and our relationships are central to our sense of personal identity and are crucial to our understanding of ourselves, individually and in relationship. Many of these issues and problems lie outside of our day-to-day awareness. The function of psychotherapy is to help people see 'what is going on behind what is going on' and to facilitate understanding, decision making and the possibility of acceptance and change.

Sexual and relationship problems stand at the core of our identity and profoundly determine how we operate in the world and broadly colour the quality of our experience of life. It is thus a proper place for the intersection of traditions of pastoral care and the reflective application of psychological therapies.