Therapy is a craft, not a script.
Manualised approaches have their place, but you are not a diagnostic category. What we do together is shaped to you, session by session.
About
A psychologist, in the ordinary sense of the word.
There is no white coat here, no waiting room full of strangers, no clinical distance. Only careful attention, evidence-based practice, and a room designed to make it easier to speak.
Dear reader,
If you are on this page, something has brought you here — most likely something you have not yet said aloud, or have said and not been heard. I want you to know that I read this page as carefully as I would like you to read it.
I became a psychologist because I believe most human suffering is quieter and more ordinary than it is dramatic. People do not usually break; they slowly compress. Good therapy, done patiently, gives that pressure somewhere to go.
My work is not to fix you — you are not broken — but to sit alongside you while you look at what you are carrying, and to bring what I have learned in fifteen years of practice to bear on it, gently and precisely.
If any of that resonates, the rest of this page will tell you the things you would reasonably want to know before writing to me.
— Dr. [Name Surname]
Six quiet convictions.
Evidence matters more than fashion.
I draw on CBT, ACT, schema therapy, and psychodynamic thinking because each has been shown to help specific things — not because they are in vogue.
The relationship is the medicine.
Fifty years of research suggests the working alliance predicts outcome more reliably than the method. That is why our fit matters, and why I offer the first call at no cost.
Fewer sessions, done well, beat more sessions done vaguely.
I am not interested in keeping you in therapy longer than serves you. Endings are part of the work, and I say so out loud.
Culture is not a footnote.
Living between two cultures — or being far from your own — reshapes the psyche. I take that seriously; I do not treat it as background information.
Silence is allowed.
Some of the most useful moments in therapy are the ones where neither of us is speaking. There is no need to fill the room.
Fifteen years, three cities.
- 2011 — 2015
London
Doctoral training and clinical placements across the NHS — community mental health, primary care psychology, and a specialist trauma service. The rigour of British clinical psychology shaped how I think.
- 2015 — 2019
Singapore
Private practice with an international caseload — executives, diplomats, and third-culture families. This is where I learned how relocation, ambition, and identity intersect.
- 2019 — present
Bangkok
An independent practice in central Bangkok, seeing expatriates and Thai professionals in equal measure. Bilingual sessions from the beginning, in person and online across South-East Asia.
Credentials, plainly stated.
- 2015
- DClinPsyDoctorate in Clinical Psychology — University College London
- 2011
- MScPsychological Research Methods — King's College London
- 2009
- BSc (Hons)Psychology, First Class — University of Edinburgh
- 2017
- Post-doctoral certificateAcceptance & Commitment Therapy — Association for Contextual Behavioural Science
- 2020
- Advanced trainingSchema Therapy for personality-based difficulties — ISST-accredited
Registrations & memberships
- HCPC (UK)Registered Practitioner Psychologist — reg. no. PYL0XXXX
- Thai Psychological AssociationFull member, bound by its code of ethics
- British Psychological SocietyChartered Member (CPsychol)
The training does not end at graduation.
Good psychologists remain students. My practice is supported by ongoing structures most clients never see — but they are the reason the work stays sharp.
Fortnightly clinical supervision with a senior colleague, in Bangkok and London.
A minimum of 40 hours of continuing professional development each year — well above what registration requires.
A quiet, structured personal practice: I have my own therapist, and I have for many years.
Regular case consultation with a small international peer group of clinicians.
The specifics, not platitudes.
What is written down
Session notes are brief and factual — enough to serve your continuity of care, no more. Nothing verbatim is recorded. You may read what I have written about you at any time.
Where it is stored
Notes live on an encrypted device in a jurisdiction with strong data protection. No cloud diary apps, no shared drives, no third-party AI transcription. Ever.
Who else sees it
No one — not employers, insurers, family members, or embassies — without your explicit written consent, save for the narrow legal exceptions any psychologist is bound by. Those exceptions are described plainly in the first session.
How long it is kept
For the period required by professional standards, and then destroyed. You may request destruction earlier in most circumstances.
Honesty about who I can and cannot help.
I work well with —
- Adults navigating anxiety, low mood, burnout, and long-standing patterns.
- Expatriates in transition — arrival, mid-posting fatigue, or the return home.
- Thai professionals seeking a bilingual, culturally-fluent psychologist.
- Couples where both partners genuinely want to be in the room.
- People who are functioning outwardly and quietly unwell inside.
I am not the right psychologist for —
- Acute psychiatric emergencies — I will help you find the right care immediately.
- Court-ordered assessments or custody evaluations.
- Children and adolescents — I will refer you to trusted colleagues.
- Anyone hoping for advice to fix a third party who is not in the room.
Saying no to work that is not mine is part of doing the work I take on properly.
Off the clock
The rest of a person.
I walk in Lumpini early, before the city has fully woken up.
I read more fiction than psychology, and think this makes me a better clinician.
I cook slowly and badly, and consider it a form of practice.
If this feels right
A short call is the easiest place to begin.
Fifteen minutes, at no cost, with no obligation on either side. If we are a fit, we will schedule a first session. If we are not, I will help you find someone who is.