About David

It can feel really exhausting living between two worlds. Showing up to places and for people around you, but knowing inside that something is shifting, or has fundamentally shifted.

Perhaps they were beliefs that created structure for your whole life, but no longer feel like they do. No longer feel safe. And there's almost nobody you can say that out loud to.

I work with people in exactly this place.

My name is David. I'm an integrative counsellor based in London, working online with clients across the UK. I specialise in faith deconstruction, religious harm, and the identity questions that follow when the framework that shaped you stops making sense.

Why this work, specifically

I've spent twenty years working closely within religious communities: in pastoral care, creative leadership, strategy, and community support. I understand the culture from the inside: the language, the structures, the unspoken rules, the shame that gets woven into people from an early age. I know what it costs to start asking questions, and how isolating it can feel when the people closest to you don't understand why you're struggling. Sometimes, you don't either.

All of this is why I can sit with what you're going through without flinching, and without trying to talk you back.

Who I tend to work with

• People who have left (or desperately want to leave) a religious community, carrying grief, anxiety, and confusion they don't quite have words for yet
• People managing the fallout with family and friends
• LGBTQIA+ people who grew up in faith communities where their identity was unwelcome
• Parents who want to raise their children with warmth and freedom, deliberately different from how they were raised
• Anyone fundamentally rethinking who they are

How I work

I'm an integrative counsellor, which means I draw on several approaches - person-centred, psychodynamic, and CBT-informed - depending on what's most useful for you. I hold a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and am a registered member of the BACP.

But more than any model, what I try to offer is simple: a space where you don't have to manage anyone else's feelings about what you're going through. A non-judgemental space where you can just breathe.

Sessions are online, across the UK. If any of this sounds like where you are, the easiest next step is a free 20-minute intro call, so you can get a feel for whether we're the right fit before committing to anything.