About

This work has developed over many years of clinical practice, study, and reflection.

I am a psychotherapist in private practice in London, where I have worked for the past 17 years. I bring over four decades of experience in the mental health field. Over that time, I have worked across a wide range of settings, including psychiatric hospitals, day programs, residential treatment centres, home-based family therapy, emergency services, and out-patient agencies. I have worked with children and adults, couples, families, and groups—both within organisations and in private practice.

My training began with a Master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado in 1984. Since then, I have trained in a wide range of therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, dialectical behavioural, contemplative, solution-focused, narrative, systemic, and others. While I draw on many different methods, my approach is integrative—adapting to the needs of each individual rather than applying a single model.Alongside my clinical work, I taught for 10 years at an integrative psychotherapy training program in London, contributing to the training and development of other practitioners.

My undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology fostered a long-standing interest in evolution and culture—an interest that continues to inform how I think about human behaviour, development, and meaning.

I have been deeply influenced by integral theory since the early 1980s. It has shaped both my professional work and my broader way of understanding the relationship between different domains of life—biological, psychological, social, and environmental.

The perspective presented here—Life Telos as First Principle—is not something I arrived at quickly. It has emerged gradually over decades of working with people, observing patterns, and reflecting on what seems to support or undermine life at multiple levels.

This is an ongoing body of work. It is offered not as a fixed system, but as an attempt to orient more clearly to life itself—how it is organised, what it requires, and what it means to live in alignment with it.

This work continues to evolve, as all living processes do.