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Therapies offered:
I offer Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) and Dynamic Interpersonal (DIT) psychotherapy. We will need a preliminary meeting to enable us to consider the way your problems are affecting you and discuss ways forward. Initial consultation serves as a space to assess what suits you and may serve as an unit on its own. We will discuss whether talking therapy is best suited to your needs and if so what kind of therapy will be likely to be most helpful. I provide an assessment service that may include referral to other psychotherapists for specialised work or to consultant psychiatrists.
Establishing the therapeutic relationship
In order to see how therapy can be helpful to you, we will need a brief phone conversation at our convenience. If we decide that therapy will be suitable, we will have a preliminary meeting to enable us to consider the way your problems are affecting you and discuss ways forward. Initial consultation serves as a space to assess what suits you and may serve as an unit on its own. We will discuss whether talking therapy is best suited to your needs and if so what kind of therapy will be likely to be most helpful. I provide an assessment service that may include referral to other psychotherapists for specialised work or to consultant psychiatrists.
I am not currently accepting new clients.
The links below may be helpful
https://www.bacp.co.uk
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/psychodynamic-therapy.html
https://babcp.com
Therapies offered:
I offer Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) and Dynamic Interpersonal (DIT) psychotherapy. We will need a preliminary meeting to enable us to consider the way your problems are affecting you and discuss ways forward. Initial consultation serves as a space to assess what suits you and may serve as an unit on its own. We will discuss whether talking therapy is best suited to your needs and if so what kind of therapy will be likely to be most helpful. I provide an assessment service that may include referral to other psychotherapists for specialised work or to consultant psychiatrists.
Establishing the therapeutic relationship
In order to see how therapy can be helpful to you, we will need a brief phone conversation at our convenience. If we decide that therapy will be suitable, we will have a preliminary meeting to enable us to consider the way your problems are affecting you and discuss ways forward. Initial consultation serves as a space to assess what suits you and may serve as an unit on its own. We will discuss whether talking therapy is best suited to your needs and if so what kind of therapy will be likely to be most helpful. I provide an assessment service that may include referral to other psychotherapists for specialised work or to consultant psychiatrists.
• Psychodynamic Counselling / Therapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a once-weekly one-to-one therapy. We will discuss the duration of the therapy after the initial consultation. These regular sessions provide an opportunity to explore recurring patterns of behaviour, especially in relationships, which may be repeated in the consulting room. I will work with you to consider these without fear of criticism or retaliation. The psychodynamic approach recognises that problems and distress in the present may have originated in early life experiences. Understanding this can provide the first step towards changes in perception, awareness and relationships. Psychodynamic psychotherapy draws on theories and practices of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis. It is a therapeutic process which helps patients understand and resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present. It differs from most other therapies in aiming for deep seated change in personality and emotional development. Psychodynamic psychotherapy aims to help people with psychological disorders to understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems thereby reducing symptoms and alleviating distress. However, their role is not limited only to those with mental health problems. Many people who experience a loss of meaning in their lives or who are seeking a greater sense of fulfillment may be helped by psychodynamic psychotherapy. Sometimes people seek help for specific reasons such as psycho-somatic conditions, obsessional behaviour, or phobic anxieties. At other times help is sought because of more general underlying feelings of depression or anxiety, difficulties in concentrating, dissatisfaction in work or inability to form satisfactory relationships. Psychodynamic psychotherapy provides an effective treatment for a range of psychological disorders, both as a treatment in its own right and as an adjunct to other forms of treatment. It can contribute significantly to patient's mental and physical health, to their sense of well-being and to their ability to manage their lives more effectively. Whether psychodynamic psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for a particular individual depends on a variety of factors. It is often helpful to have one or more preliminary consultations with an experienced psychotherapist before deciding whether psychodynamic psychotherapy is an appropriate treatment for the person concerned. Occasionally, the treatment might be of short duration but generally speaking psychodynamic psychotherapy is best considered as a long-term treatment involving considerable commitment for both patient and therapist. The relationship with the therapist is a crucial element as in all therapies. The therapist offers a confidential and private setting which facilitates a process where unconscious patterns of the patient's inner world become reflected in the patient's relationship with the therapist (transference). This process helps patients gradually to identify these patterns and, in becoming conscious of them, to develop the capacity to understand and change them. |
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a short-term collaborative therapy for those experiencing mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Working together we will identify patterns of thinking and belief linked to feelings which may be contributing to emotional distress and troubling behaviour. We will seek to find new ways of thinking and behaving which can have a positive effect on your mood and ability to cope with life's challenges. "When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves." Viktor Frankl CBT was used initially used mainly for treating depression, but it soon became clear that its basic principles can also help with other problems, disorders and illnesses. Different methods of CBT were developed that specifically aim to help in certain diseases or illnesses, for example eating or sleep disorders, anxiety or panic disorders, obsessive-compulsive and addictive disorders. CBT can also help people with certain chronic diseases, for example tinnitus and rheumatism, to better cope with their symptoms. The methods used in CBT demand commitment and self-initiative from the client. For the therapy to be successful people have to cooperate actively and to also work on their problems between sessions. This might be a great challenge, particularly if someone is very ill, for example with severe depression or anxiety disorder. This is why sometimes medication is used at first to relieve the worst symptoms quickly so that psychotherapy can be started. The decision for a certain kind of psychotherapy also depends on the goal. If you feel the need for deep insight into the causes of your problems, CBT is probably not the right choice. CBT is particularly useful if you are mainly interested in tackling concrete problems and are only secondarily concerned with the “why.” How is CBT different from other psychotherapies? Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a problem-oriented strategy. It focuses on current problems and on finding solutions for them. Unlike psychoanalysis, for example, it does not deal primarily with the past. Also, the main goal of CBT is not to discover what causes the problems, but rather to tackle them here and now. The most important thing is helping people to help themselves: they should be able to cope with their lives again without therapeutic help as soon as possible. This does not mean that cognitive behavioral therapy completely ignores the influence of past events. But it mainly deals with recognizing and changing current distressing patterns of thought and behavior. Analytic psychotherapy, which has its origin in classic Freudian psychoanalysis, uses different methods. Here the therapist tries to help the client discover and understand problems and their deeper causes. |
• Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy or DIT is a time limited and structured psychotherapy, typically delivered over 16 weekly sessions. It aims to help you understand the connection between presenting symptoms and what is happening in your relationships through identifying a core repetitive pattern of relating that can be traced back to childhood. Once this pattern is identified, it will be used to make sense of difficulties in relationships in the here-and-now that contribute to psychological stress. Therapy comes in many forms, each having a particular focus and emphasis. DIT focuses mostly on relationship problems. When a person is able to deal with a relationship problem more effectively, his or her psychological symptoms often improve. DIT aims to help people recognise specific relationship patterns and to make changes in their relationships. There is a growing body of scientific evidence demonstrating the benefit of this approach. Your therapist will encourage you to reflect on what you think and feel, thereby enhancing your ability to manage current interpersonal difficulties. It aims at relieving your symptoms of distress, enhancing your interpersonal functioning and your capacity for understanding yourself and others. During this therapy, your therapist will help you find more appropriate ways of being and coping with difficult relationships in your life. |