Psychotherapy for OCD, anxiety and intrusive thoughts
I’m Oli, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist working with people experiencing OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts and recurring difficulties in their relationships.
My work is about understanding the patterns behind how you think, feel and relate, and what keeps them going.
What I can help with
You might find yourself caught in cycles of overthinking, struggling with intrusive thoughts, or noticing the same patterns repeating in your relationships.
How I Work
My approach is relational and integrative, combining depth psychotherapy with practical ways of working with the difficulties you're facing. I'm interested in understanding you as a person, not just the symptoms you're experiencing, and exploring how your experiences and relationships have shaped the way you think, feel and relate to others.
I take an active role in our work together, bringing curiosity, offering my perspective and challenging you where appropriate. I want therapy to be a space where you feel understood, but also where we can question familiar patterns.
Understanding the whole picture
I believe therapy can involve both psychological depth and practical change. Sometimes it is important to take time to understand the deeper patterns behind what you're experiencing — bringing together the different pieces of your history, relationships, thoughts, feelings and behaviour to develop a clearer picture of what is happening and why.
My approach is relational and integrative, drawing on depth psychotherapy and my four-year core training in Transactional Analysis.
This is complemented by further training and clinical experience in areas including anxiety, OCD, intrusive and obsessive thinking, trauma and relationships.
Where appropriate, I also incorporate practical, evidence-based approaches such as ERP and ACT to help you make meaningful changes in the present.
I don't see these as competing approaches; understanding yourself and making meaningful change can be complementary parts of the same therapeutic process.
