About Me
I'm Mike, a therapist based in North London. I see clients both in person at various sites across London, and online. I trained later in life, after a career in business, technology and media. That background helps me understand some of the pressures, uncertainty and change that lead people to seek therapy.
My Story
For years, I built a career that looked like success from the outside - technology journalism during an exciting boom time, setting up my own consultancy, eventually building and running a multi-million-pound business. There were real highs in there, and genuine friendships that have lasted decades. But there were lows too, including nearly losing everything in the aftermath of Brexit. And through all of it, something was missing that I couldn't quite name.
It took my own experience with severe depression, and finding my way into a therapy room, to understand what that was: human connection. My therapist helped me see strengths in myself I'd never really valued – communication, empathy, curiosity, a genuine desire to understand people. It turned out the psychology degree I'd completed decades earlier, and barely used since, had been trying to tell me something all along.
That realisation led me to retrain as a therapist. I gained much of my early clinical experience at a unique London charity, working with people from all kinds of backgrounds facing a variety of challenges. That has shaped the therapist I am today, and I'm proud to say I still volunteer there as part of their drive to make affordable therapy accessible to a wide audience.
I'm also a husband and a father of four boys. Being close to family members navigating neurodiversity and serious mental health challenges – as well as facing my own – has given me a real, lived understanding of how hard the system can be to navigate, and how isolating it can feel to struggle. One area I'm particularly passionate about is improving access to mental health support for men, especially in midlife, who are so often told, directly or indirectly, that struggling is a weakness rather than something worth talking about. I've been there. I know what it's like.
My Qualifications
CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Therapeutic Counselling
Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Academy
Therapy is never one size fits all. Integrative counselling is about using the most appropriate tools for each individual - whether that's exploring how you've been shaped by your history, working with behavioural change, or simply providing a space for you to be heard.
Advanced Diploma in CBT/REBT
College of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies
I draw on modern behavioural approaches, some you may have heard of - like CBT and ACT - and some less well known but equally impactful. REBT in particular helps zoom in on the specific thought patterns affecting your emotional wellbeing.
BSc (Hons) Psychology
University of Bristol
My interest in understanding the human mind stems back to my degree, which covered cognition, neuroscience, memory, language, developmental psychology and neurodiversity.
Accreditations
I am a Registered Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (MBACP), a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS), a student member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), and member of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science.
