About Abi
Psychotherapist, Writer and Supervisor
I qualified as a psychodynamic psychotherapist at Westminster Pastoral Foundation (WPF), and hold a Masters degree in the Psychodynamics of Human Development from Birkbeck, University of London, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Theory and Practice from Roehampton University.
My clinical training has also included relationship counselling at the Relate Institute, psychosexual therapy at the Tavistock Institute, and supervision training at the Institute of Group Analysis.
Over more than 16 years in the mental health sector, I have worked across a range of clinical settings — including a psychiatric hospital, a specialist unit for disordered eating, and within higher education. I now practise privately, offering individual and couple therapy, group work, supervision, and organisational consultancy.
Alongside my clinical work, I have led workshops and taught postgraduate courses on difference, diversity, and inclusion. I am deeply committed to illuminating the unconscious biases that shape our institutions and interactions, and to fostering environments — in therapy, education, and the workplace — that are more equitable, collaborative, and genuinely humane.
I am also a writer and artist. All artwork on this site is my own, and I believe in the profound connection between creative practice and the work of healing. Both ask us to sit with what is unfinished, to find form in what feels formless.