Hello! Welcome, my name is Kendall. I am a professionally qualified Psychotherapeutic Integrative Counsellor (Dip, MBACP, Accred). Alongside my clinical training, I also have a background in social science (MA, Goldsmiths). This means I am interested not only in your thoughts and feelings, but your environments around you – your work, family, culture, identity and how you navigate this. Together, we can look at how these wider influences and your personal history come together to shape how you feel and cope day to day. Factors such as abuse, anxiety, addiction, chronic pain, discrimination, loneliness, perfectionism, poverty, shame and others, do not occur in isolation to the individual’s experience nor are they strictly limited to childhood.

I am also an outsider having lived abroad for 20 years of my life in a handful of different countries. This exposure means I don’t take being understood for granted and I don’t work on assumptions. Using clean language and being sure clients feel really understood is a significant part of my job. As a result of being foreign and ‘othered’, I am drawn to value and explore differences in the therapy relationship – be they cultural, intergenerational, racial, social class and so forth – and how that impacts a life.

Prior to retraining as a counsellor, I worked as a journalist and moved into creative media and social research working with national UK charities related to public arts, education, public health, and international human rights. These different sectors and organisations have made me very au fait with workplace issues and the power dynamics in place. As part of my values, I try to be a leveller of these inequalities in therapeutic and supervisory relationships and work with difference and diversity in an open and curious way.

I am a vetted Accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) and am part of the Psychologists for Social Change network.

You can read more about My Approach and style on  the homepage and book a free initial consultation to get a feel for whether this is the right fit for you.