Having trained as a Counselling Psychologist, I began my therapeutic career some 30 years ago, when I set up one of the first fertility counselling services in the NHS.
 
While remaining a strand of my clinical work and intellectual interest, my work has always been general psychotherapy with individuals and couples.
 
I went on to train as an Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapist an approach which powerfully reflects my understanding of the struggles and challenges we all encounter throughout our lives, Over the years, the work of Martin Buber, Victor Frankl, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and R. D. Laing have offered particular inspiration and stimulation.
 
Canadian and Jewish by birth, I have also developed a professional interest in a wide range of experiences of marginality, and minority experience, with a strong element of intercultural work in my practice.
 
My workshop, A Stranger in a Strange Land, speaks to the experience of ‘otherness’ or ‘foreignness’ that many feel, and has run successfully in Canada and England for the past 20 years.