Isobel offers a warm, person-centred and non-judgemental approach to therapy for individuals and couples. Her work brings together evidence-based psychological methods, contemporary neuroscience and depth psychotherapy with Buddhist psychology, ancient, time-tested contemplative practices, systems thinking and practical mindfulness-based coaching.
Therapy is shaped around the person, the concerns they bring and what they want to change. The work may focus on stress, relationships, demanding careers, life transitions or recurring patterns that have become difficult to resolve. Confidentiality and professional discretion are central throughout.
Person-Centred and Depth Psychotherapy
A trusting therapeutic relationship provides space to explore what is happening in your life without judgement. Depth psychotherapy looks beyond the immediate problem to explore how past experiences, emotional patterns and ways of relating may influence the present. This understanding is connected to the practical changes you want to make.
Contemporary Neuroscience and Neuro-Effective Therapy
Isobel’s neuro-effective approach is tools-based, combining practical techniques with working directly with the nervous system to help you manage emotional and physical reactions to stress. Together, you will explore what triggers these responses and practise tools aimed at reducing heightened sympathetic nervous system activation, often called the fight-or-flight response. You will develop tools to use between sessions, with the aim of supporting nervous system regulation so you can respond more deliberately, rather than react automatically. This practical work is integrated with exploring your thoughts, emotions and relationships.
Buddhist Psychology and Contemplative Practices
Isobel is a practising Zen Buddhist and committed meditator whose training has included study and practice with Buddhist monks in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and California. She has studied with Zen masters and explored Buddhist psychology, philosophy and contemplative disciplines through sustained personal practice. This experience brings another dimension to her clinical work: a close interest in how the mind constructs experience, holds on to familiar patterns and responds to uncertainty.
Zen and other Buddhist traditions offer ancient disciplines for investigating attention, identity and habitual reactions. In therapy, these perspectives open up practical questions: What captures your attention? Which reactions keep repeating? How do ambition, fear or the need for control shape your decisions and relationships?
Isobel brings these insights into dialogue with contemporary psychology, making them relevant to the pressures of modern life. The work is adapted to your goals and beliefs; you do not need to be Buddhist or have any meditation experience.
Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy and Coaching
Isobel has practised mindfulness since 2002 and developed a dedicated meditation practice around 2011, beginning with Transcendental Meditation and later exploring Buddhist insight meditation and Zen. Her work draws on this long-standing personal practice alongside her professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR is a structured programme that brings mindfulness into everyday life through meditation, body awareness and gentle movement. It invites a different relationship with stress: learning to notice what is happening in your mind and body, recognise automatic reactions and create room for a more considered response.
Isobel’s mindfulness-based psychotherapy and coaching are tools-based and practical. You will explore exercises suited to your circumstances, with tools to practise between sessions and use during difficult conversations, demanding workdays and moments when it is hard to switch off. The emphasis is on bringing awareness into the situations where you need it.
Systems Thinking and Relationships
A difficulty rarely exists in isolation. Therapy considers the relationships, family roles, workplace demands and wider cultural context surrounding it. Isobel works with individuals and couples, including professionals and their partners or family members, to explore patterns of communication, expectations and boundaries at work and at home.
EMDR and Other Psychological Methods
Where appropriate, Isobel uses EMDR to address distressing past memories, present concerns and future worries, including imagined worst-case scenarios and negative self-beliefs that shape expectations about relationships, work and life. EMDR may also help with phobias, such as fear of flying. Psychoeducation, compassion-focused work and exploration of meaning, identity and values may also form part of therapy. The choice of methods is discussed with you and guided by your needs. Read more about EMDR therapy.
Bringing the Work Together
The aim is to connect understanding with changes that matter in your life: greater clarity under pressure, more constructive communication, and a way forward with personal, professional or relationship difficulties. Sessions are available in person in London’s Harley Street district, online internationally, or in a flexible hybrid format, in English or Swedish.