About me

Having been brought up in a rural part of South Wales, I attended Durham University where I undertook a BSc in Psychology. I then moved to London and worked in a psychiatric hospital as a healthcare assistant. I worked on both a psychiatric intensive care unit and also on a child and adolescent inpatient eating disorder unit. I completed my doctorate in Clinical Psychology at University College London in 2005.  

Since this time I have worked in many different settings within the NHS. These include Community Mental Health Teams, Inpatient Psychiatric settings, a Crisis and Home Treatment Team, a residential Pain Management Service, an Early Psychosis Service and an Occupational Health and Wellbeing Service for NHS staff. My most recent job has been working in a Cancer Psychology Service, providing psychological assessment and therapy to cancer patients and their family members. 

Areas of interest

I’m particularly interested in working with people who experience various existential issues. This includes that of: 
  • death anxiety – recurring intrusive thoughts and intense anxiety at the idea of death (theirs or their loved ones) 
  • preoccupation with ideas of impermanence or the transience of life
  • finding a sense of purpose or meaning in life

These sorts of concerns are sometimes thought of as ‘existential OCD’ or ‘philosophical OCD’. Death anxiety is also sometimes known as thanataphobia.
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