Psychotherapy is a shared endeavour between you and your therapist. At its core is the collaborative relationship with your therapist. Working together and at your pace, my aim is to support you through your difficulties towards greater understanding, freedom and flexibility in how you approach life’s challenges.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy involves:

The exploration and expression of all your thoughts and feelings, including contradictory and conflictual feelings and emotions that can be difficult to articulate.

Identifying recurring themes and patterns that may be unhelpful or holding you back.

Exploring past experiences and how these experiences may live on in the present.

Exploring relationships with others both past and present.

Understanding these, very often, unconscious dynamics, will lead to improved self-awareness into the difficulties you face, which will enable you to find a different way of coping, to respond differently to life’s challenges.

Psychotherapy can be time limited or open-ended. I offer one-to-one, open-ended psychotherapy allowing you to decide the number of sessions that would work for you depending on the depth and complexity of the issues you want to resolve.

• Build a capacity for more fulfilling relationships

• Be better able to tolerate unbearable and difficult feelings without
  being overwhelmed by them

• Understand self and others in more nuanced ways

• Encourage positive self-esteem and build emotional strength to
  make more effective use of your capabilities

• Face life’s challenges with increased freedom and flexibility

• Depression, low mood, loss of purpose and lack of fulfilment,
  low confidence and self esteem

• Loss, bereavement and grief, inability to grieve, relationship endings
  and divorce

• An inability to form satisfactory relationships, sexual problems,
  sexual identity, loneliness

• Negative thoughts, anxiety, stress, panic attacks, phobias, obsessive
  and compulsive behaviours

• Work related dynamics and stress, redundancies

• Not knowing who you are and what you want out of life

• Understanding and making sense of what you feel and why

• Infertility, peri and post-natal and birth trauma, parenting issues,
  menopause, family conflicts

• Cancer, coping with serious and life changing illness

• Anger management

• Boarding school syndrome

• Eating disorders, sleep disorders, addictions, self-harm, suicidal thoughts

• Psychosomatic conditions

• Trauma and PTSD

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