About

About Andrew

I am a doctoral-level trained psychotherapist with over twelve years of clinical experience, currently completing final thesis amendments to qualify as a Counselling Psychologist. I am a BABCP-accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with advanced training in relational psychodynamic therapy. I work from a private practice in Fitzrovia, Central London, offering therapy to individuals and couples.

My Journey to Psychology

I have always wanted to be a psychologist. When I finished my undergraduate psychology degree and told my social psychology lecturer, Harriet Marshall, she offered me the best advice I have ever received: "Go and live first, Andrew."

For many years, I did exactly that. I built careers in education and forensic services before training as a psychotherapist. Each role gave me something different, and each confirmed what I had known since my degree: that I wanted to spend my professional life helping people understand themselves more fully. But Harriet was right. By the time I came to this work, I brought with me not just clinical training but a breadth of life experience, a maturity of perspective, and a far clearer understanding of why this profession matters to me.

Why Counselling Psychology?

I was drawn to Counselling Psychology specifically because of its emphasis on humanistic values: its commitment to understanding the whole person, its insistence on valuing diversity, and its explicit acknowledgement that mental health cannot be separated from the social, cultural, and political contexts in which people live. These are not abstract principles for me. As a Black Queer man in a profession that remains overwhelmingly White and too often unrepresentative of the communities it serves, I have both a personal and professional stake in ensuring that therapy is accessible, inclusive, and honest about the world we live in.

How I Work

Over more than a decade of clinical practice, I have worked across several NHS mental health services and in private practice, specialising in a wide range of anxiety and depression-related difficulties, trauma, and complex emotional and relational problems. I have particular expertise in working with adults who have experienced adverse childhood events, LGBTQIA+ clients navigating minority stress and identity-related challenges, and couples seeking to understand the deeper dynamics shaping their relationship.

My approach to therapy is integrative. While my foundation is relational psychodynamic, I draw on schema therapy, CBT, and ACT when they serve the therapeutic work. I take time to understand the social and cultural contexts that shape my clients’ lives and how these continue to influence their sense of self. In sessions, I encourage reflexive curiosity, using the therapeutic relationship itself to foster validation, self-acceptance, and meaningful change aligned with each client’s values.

My style is active and engaged. I share my observations, ask questions that open things up, and think through what is emerging alongside you, rather than remaining silent. I believe the best therapy happens when both people in the room are genuinely present and willing to do the work.

Values and Commitments

My therapeutic practice is grounded in the principles of anti-oppressive practice, equity, and intersectionality. I believe that structural oppressions shape mental difficulties, and that much of the distress people carry is inseparable from experiences of social fragmentation, trauma, and discrimination. I bring this awareness into the therapy room not as a political position but as a clinical necessity, because understanding the full context of a person’s life is essential to understanding their pain.

I am committed to offering a space that is genuinely inclusive and free from assumption. Whether you are navigating questions of identity, processing difficult experiences, working through relational patterns, or simply seeking a space to think more clearly about your life, I will meet you where you are with honesty, warmth, and rigour.