I am a Clinical Psychologist with more than two decades of experience working with individuals, couples, and families across South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. I am licensed to practise in all three countries and work primarily with relational distress that has become repetitive, entrenched, or difficult to shift through insight alone.

 

My work draws on systemic, constructivist, and polyvagal theory, integrating these perspectives into a coherent, practice-based approach to change. I focus on how relationships organise emotion, meaning, and interaction under pressure, and how these patterns shape what partners experience with each other over time. I have led clinical services, supervised multidisciplinary teams, and trained practitioners in approaches that prioritise structure, regulation, and relational depth.

 

This work developed through sustained engagement with couples for whom traditional approaches had stalled. My writing and teaching centre on making the invisible structure of relationships visible — the recurring patterns that quietly govern how partners speak, react, protect themselves, and miss each other. I am concerned with bridging clinical theory and lived relational experience, and with translating complex psychological ideas into work that is usable, grounded, and emotionally real.