I work in the psycho-analytic
psychotherapy tradition (also known as
psychodynamic psychotherapy).
I offer a safe and
confidential space for you to
explore your inner world with a view to resolve past
conflicts, to bring relief from symptoms and to bring
about an increased depth and meaning to life.
When someone decides to come to psychotherapy, it may
be that foremost in their mind is the desire to get
help to deal with something that is bothering them,
such as an unwanted behaviour pattern, overwhelming
feelings or a lack of meaning in life.
Among other things, Psychotherapy can help if you:
• Feel unable to cope.
• Want to change relationship patterns.
• Are questioning the meaning of life.
• Harbor feelings of resentment, disappointment or
despair.
• Are excessively anxious.
• Find yourself unable to cope with your problems.
• Feel lonely or depressed.
• Feel that you would like to realise your full
potential.
• Are unable to access certain feelings.
• Need help to come to terms with your life or your
feelings.
• Suffer from obsessive thoughts.
• Want to get to know who you are; want to deepen
your relationship with yourself, with others or with
the world.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help us to find
freedom from old / dysfunctional patterns.
It can help us to deal with pain, hopelessness, lack
of direction, anxieties and other difficulties in our
lives and our relationships.
It is also a well established, well documented and
well trodden path to self knowledge
and self experience.
Its aims are to develop a healthy, true and deep
relationship with oneself which leads to healthy,
true and deep relationships with others.
Its aims are toward a state of
relatedness, which is the basis of emotional
health.
‘Inside or outside the analytic situation a
related approach opens one to the other’s pain and
stirs one’s own. Relatedness hurts. And then it
nourishes. First the pain of embodied existance is
experienced and then the compassionate atmosphere of
relatedness assuages the pain.'
It is not an easy path, but its prizes are great.
It does not preclude any other psychological or
spiritual practice, but it works towards a greater
depth of experience in all areas of ones life
including ones inner realms.
I am currently available to work with people between
1 and 3 times per week depending on the level of
support or the intensity that is required.
My fees are between £30 and £45 per session, although
I do have a limited number of reduced rate spaces
available for the low waged or the unemployed.
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