Writing & Research

My clinical work has gradually led me towards questions that could not be answered within the consulting room alone. Over the past decade, I have become increasingly interested in how recognition, belonging, language and social power shape psychological experience and therapeutic process.

I work as a psychotherapist in private practice, and my writing grows directly from clinical practice rather than from academia alone. My recent MA in Advanced Clinical Practice at the Minster Centre explored the experiences of Eastern European therapists in the UK through autoethnography, examining conditional belonging, professional invisibility and the relational consequences of misrecognition.

Current research interests

• Structural invalidation and therapeutic impasse

• Recognition and mutuality in relational psychotherapy

• Conditional belonging and Eastern European identity in the UK

• Autoethnography and practitioner research