Psychotherapist, Writer and Supervisor
Welcome
I am a registered and accredited psychodynamic psychotherapist — and a warm welcome to you, wherever you are in your journey.
Psychotherapy is a deeply transformative process. Drawing on my clinical training, personal experience, and more than 16 years of practice, I work with individuals, couples, and groups to support meaningful and lasting change. At the heart of my approach is a genuine commitment to growth, possibility, and the kind of relationship that makes change feel safe.
I view you as the expert of your own life. My role is to support you in navigating its challenges with greater insight, self-awareness, and compassion. Many of our struggles are rooted in unconscious patterns and early relational experiences. By gently bringing these to light — exploring thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that may operate outside conscious awareness — we create space for new understanding, emotional healing, and lasting change.
I currently offer sessions online only.
Services
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As both a therapist and an artist, I recognize the meaningful parallels between art and psychotherapy. Inspired by both practices, I’ve integrated my artwork throughout this site to encourage reflection and support the ongoing work of healing.
What Makes Life Worth Living?
Eat, Pray, Love and the Quiet Work of Becoming
www.abicatherapy.com
Publication
Adoption isn’t only a story of love — it is also a story of loss, identity, and repair.
Before adoption, there is rupture. A child loses connection to their first family, their roots, and their beginnings. Love matters deeply, but love alone is not enough. What builds trust is the willingness to understand the grief beneath the behaviour — and to commit to repair over time.
In Parenting the Adopted Child: Beyond Love and Intention, I write from my work as a psychotherapist grounded in psychoanalytic thinking, attachment theory, emotional regulation, and developmental trauma. I also draw on years of clinical practice alongside adopted children, their parents, social workers, and adoption agencies — and from my experience as a mother.
This book is for those willing to move beyond the idea of adoption as rescue, and toward understanding it as a lifelong relationship of repair, meaning-making, and hope.
📘 Now available on Kindle https://amzn.eu/d/9aFIMDq
Blog
What Makes Life Worth Living? Eat, Pray, Love and the Quiet Work of Becoming
There is a scene in Eat Pray Love that has come to me. Julia Roberts, alone at a small table in Rome, savouring every mouthful
A Film Worth Returning To: Reflections on The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
No matter how many times I watch this short film, it leaves me with a mixture of emotions that is difficult to fully articulate. Something
Where Would You Be When History Calls?
I have just finished watching Trevor Noah’s new Netflix special, Joy in the Trenches, and one question he kept coming back to has not left