Sessions are available in person in Oxford, online via secure video, or by phone.

I usually suggest a preliminary consultation before we commit to working together.

I trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Guild of Psychotherapists.

I used to be an academic, starting in Oxford in the 1980s where I read English. As a student I started reading Derrida, including his important essays on psychoanalysis, and Freud. A DPhil became my first book, Robert Browning: a Literary Life and the interest in Derrida and psychoanalysis continued to inform my curiosity about and enjoyment of the fundamental academic activities of reading, writing and teaching. I taught at Oxford, Goldsmiths, Queen Mary and elsewhere, published various essays as well as Derrida’s Writing and Difference (2009) and Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces (2014) and served on the editorial boards of Angelaki: a Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and Oxford Literary Review, eventually ending my career as a Reader in English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Kent. Since then, I have continued to give papers and publish essays, most recently as a keynote at JD25 Hospitality at the University of Cork (2025) and in a special issue of the journal Política común called Deconstruction contra Fascist Mythologies (2024). I continue to love to read, of course, for example recently quite a lot of Fred Moten and Hélène Cixous.