I began my career in the 1970s as a child care social worker and worked for several years in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.  In 1985 I left to join a small team of mental health professionals in setting up the first counselling and psychotherapy centre in Colchester, Essex: the Stockwell Centre.

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In 1988 I began my psychotherapy training with the Lincoln Centre in London, (now the British Psychotherapy Foundation). I qualified in 1995 and opened my private practice which continues to the present day.

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I became a senior member of the Lincoln Centre in 2004.

In 2008 I completed an MA by dissertation, in which I explored some difficulties that I had experienced in working with psychotic states of mind. A paper based on my thesis was later published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy.

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For 5 years, between 2010 and 2015, I held a lecturer post in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. It was this teaching experience that inspired my first book ‘Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind.’

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My time is now concentrated on my clinical practice.

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I live and work in Colchester, Essex.