UKCP Registered
Psychotherapist specialising in emotional closeness and connections
Working with individuals
For those who long for deep connection — but find that real closeness keeps slipping just out of reach.
Begin Your Journey
I've always been searching for meaning — for something deeper, more soulful, more real. And underneath that search was something more specific: a longing for genuine connection. To be truly known. To let people close in a way that actually felt safe.
That wasn't always easy for me. Like many of the people I now work with, I understood the longing — but the path to actually receiving closeness was something I had to learn, slowly and honestly, for myself.
I began with a degree in Languages and Cultural Studies, drawn to people, to the richness of different inner worlds. But deep down I knew there was something more I was meant to do — somewhere I could sit with people in the places that mattered most.
Before I could support others, I had to do my own work. I needed to look honestly at my own patterns, my own ways of keeping closeness at a distance without quite knowing why. That work — slow, at times uncomfortable, ultimately freeing — became the foundation of everything I offer now.
I know this territory well. And I know how to help you find your way through it.
Registered Member · UKCP — United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy
In my practice, I work with people who have a complicated relationship with closeness. Not because they don't want it — but because something in them keeps it at a careful distance.
Maybe you find yourself drawn to people who are never quite available. Or you get close to someone and then feel a quiet urge to pull back, create distance, go cool. Or you experience relationship anxiety — a constant hum of worry that something will go wrong, that you are too much, that the person will leave. Or you've been in relationships that started with intensity and slowly lost air, and you're not sure why it keeps going that way. These are often expressions of attachment patterns formed long before you were aware of them.
These aren't personality flaws. They are patterns — and underneath them, beliefs about connection that formed long before you were aware of them. Beliefs about whether you are safe to be truly known. Whether love can be trusted. Whether closeness is something you are even allowed to have.
In my work, we explore these patterns and the beliefs that quietly drive them — gently, with curiosity, and without judgment. As you begin to understand where they came from and what they've been protecting you from, something shifts. The walls that once felt necessary begin to soften. And real closeness becomes not just something you long for, but something you can begin to build — and keep.
Much is written about why closeness is hard. Far less is said about how to actually build it. In our work together, we don't stop at understanding. We look at the reasons — and then go further. We begin to gently reframe what you learned about what love looks like, what it asks of you, and what you are allowed to want from it. Over time, you begin to form a new sense of what genuine closeness actually is — not the version shaped by old fear or early experience, but something closer to the truth. A different felt sense of how connection can be built, what it can feel like, and what it means to let someone in without losing yourself in the process. This is what stays with you long after our work together.
This work is for you if you have noticed a pattern — in the people you choose, in the way you move toward someone and then quietly away, in the sense that real closeness always seems to be just slightly out of reach.
It is for those who have loved, and lost the connection without fully understanding why. Who feel deeply, but find it hard to let that depth be truly met by another person.
"We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become."
You probably already know the pattern. You've seen it enough times.
The connection that felt electric — and then slowly lost air. The relationship that almost worked. The breakup that left you more confused than heartbroken. The betrayal that made you question whether real closeness is even possible. The person you kept at arm's length without quite knowing why. The longing for something real, and the part of you that moves away just as it arrives.
Therapy isn't about being told what to do differently. It's about understanding why the pattern is there — the beliefs about connection that have been quietly running underneath your relationships, shaping who you choose, how close you let them come, and what you do when they get there.
Together, we go gently into the places where closeness began to feel complicated. Where you learned, perhaps very early, that being truly known wasn't always safe. That love came with conditions. That needing someone was a risk.
That understanding doesn't stay in the therapy room. It quietly begins to reshape how you show up — in your relationships, in the moments when closeness is offered to you, in your growing capacity to build something deeper and more lasting than you've known before.
This is slow, careful work. But it's the kind that lasts.
To help you see the pattern clearly — not as something broken in you, but as something that made perfect sense given what you experienced. From that place of understanding, real change becomes possible.
The very thing we're exploring — closeness, being truly known — can begin to be experienced safely here, between us. What happens in the room is part of the work itself.
I offer sessions both online via Zoom and in-person in London. Both offer the same depth of care and presence — choose whichever feels most natural for you.
In-person sessions are available in Little Venice, West London and Haggerston, East London.
I work with a carefully selected number of clients at any one time, ensuring each person receives my full presence, care and attention.
Fees are discussed personally during your complimentary introductory call — a space for us to connect and explore whether working together feels right.
If I'm not the right fit for you, I will always guide you toward the right professional.
Arrange an introductory callTherapy can be daunting but from our first few sessions, Anna made me feel at ease. Working with Anna has helped me to grow and become more confident — our sessions each week are a place for me to come and talk about my biggest fears, things that are worrying me or my day-to-day, and Anna will help me to pull it apart and find out what is really bothering me and why. It's a space that's purely for me where I can speak without judgement and really reflect. We've been on a journey in a direction I never expected to go but it has been rewarding and has started me on a path to a much better understanding of myself. I feel that I now have the tools to finally start seeing and acknowledging myself. Although there's still a long way to go, I and people around me can already see a positive change and I can't thank Anna enough.
If you are looking for a therapist who is passionate about assisting in healing your trauma wounds, childhood trauma or you just need someone to talk you through current life issues then Anna is your person. Since starting therapy with Anna, I no longer feel guilty, hopeless or confused. It's been and still is the best decision I've made to enhance my life and become the best version of me.
I work with a small number of clients at any one time — people who arrive with a sense of recognition. Something in this work has already spoken to them before we speak.
If that is you, I warmly invite you to reach out. I offer a 15-minute introductory call — not to begin your search, but to deepen a sense that is already there.
You can reach me at
anna.therapy@hotmail.comI explore and write about connection — the beliefs we formed about love before we had words for it, and what becomes possible once we understand what's been running underneath.
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