Media

Speaking and Media

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Alongside my clinical practice, I contribute to professional conversation about psychotherapy, coaching, and mental health. Below is a record of recent speaking engagements.

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Birkbeck Centre for Counselling Internal Conference

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Panellist  |  Sunday 17 May 2026  |  Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street

Conference theme:

Encounters with Alterity: Psychodynamic and Psychosocial Perspectives on the Other

Panel title (use exactly as printed in programme):

An Intergenerational Conversation on The Exquisite Corpse: Contemplating the Creases and Folds of our Ageing Selves

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With Michael Holden (author, The Reluctant Carer) and Esther Ramsay-Jones (researcher and psychodynamic practitioner)

Panel description:

This panel brought together three practitioners and thinkers at different stages of life and clinical experience to explore ageing, dependency, and what it means to work therapeutically across a generational divide.

 

I brought my clinical experience of working with older people to explore the psychoanalytic pessimism about ageing, first articulated by Freud, and how this legacy may continue to shape who is offered treatment and on what terms. I reflected on how early psychic experiences of dependency, loss, endings, and the competing life and death drives can re-emerge with particular vividness in the therapeutic relationship with an older client — and how these dynamics are registered in the countertransference of a younger therapist.

 

The panel recording is under consideration for publication.