Individual Therapy and Couples Counselling
Helping people who feel stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed rediscover connection and direction
You hold everything together for everyone else. The one who smooths tension, explains, apologises, and keeps the peace.
You tell yourself it’s fine. You just need to rest, to focus, to try harder. But lately, it feels like something deeper is asking to be heard.
Maybe you wake up already tense. Maybe you replay conversations in your head, trying to find what you did wrong. Maybe you long for closeness, but it feels safer to keep a little distance. You’ve spent so long keeping things together that you’re not sure what it would mean to let go.
These aren’t flaws. They’re ways of surviving, patterns that once kept you safe but now keep you stuck, but when you’ve lived with them for most of your life, they can take time to shift. Therapy can be a space to understand them, gently and honestly, so you can live with more ease, more clarity, and more authenticity.
About me
I’m Alex, a psychotherapeutic counsellor based in London, working with individuals and couples who want to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply.
Before training as a therapist, I worked in the corporate world and spent over a decade in the arts as an acting coach. Both worlds taught me a lot about performance and pressure, about what people show and what they hide. Those experiences shape how I work now: grounded, curious and straight-talking when needed.
As a gay man, I understand what it means to navigate belonging and identity, to adapt in ways that help you fit in but sometimes cost you a sense of self. I welcome clients from all backgrounds and identities. What matters most is that you feel understood.
How I Work
Therapy with me is a conversation. We meet weekly and build a relationship that becomes the foundation for change. We talk, and sometimes we sit in silence. Over time, you start to hear yourself differently.
I don’t offer quick fixes or step-by-step plans. Instead, we explore what’s happening beneath the surface the patterns, beliefs, and emotional rules that quietly shape how you live and relate.
The main theoretical models I draw on are Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, psychodynamic theory, and attachment-informed perspectives, but I don’t work from a manual. Therapy is not a script. It’s a process of discovering what makes sense for you.
What Brings People Here
People I work with often describe feeling:
Anxious, tense, or unable to switch off
Drained from taking responsibility for others
Guilty for having needs of their own
Disconnected in relationships, either holding too much or feeling unseen
Overly self-critical, stuck between striving and exhaustion
They want to feel calmer and more connected, but not by pretending. They want real change, not perfection, but peace.
Locations
19 Nassau St, London W1W 7AF
Linear House, Peyton Place, Greenwich, London SE10
Contact
phone
020 3825 1925