I am a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and supervisor offering psychotherapy to adults and adolescents (15+).
I work with people with a range of difficulties and symptoms, including anxiety and depression, which is in many ways an umbrella term under which most difficulties fall in some way. More specifically I work with relationship and work difficulties, compulsive behaviours and addictions, trauma and past experiences of neglect and/or abuse and with those wishing to seek therapy for support and increased awareness. I am interested in the way societies expectations can affect people, especially those who may fall outside of its ‘norms’.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a process that may run counter to our inclinations, in that it seeks to explore and go into rather than away from difficult experiences. It is not about problem solving or coping strategies, per se, although my experience is that it is a process that can ultimately lead to relief from difficult, destructive and repetitive ways of being.
It is often by understanding the coping strategies that we have developed and may indeed be using unconsciously and perhaps changing these that is helpful. These coping strategies have sometimes been essential ways to manage difficult and painful experiences but can get stuck.
To understand these, time needs to be taken to put into words and have understood our own experience.
I offer both long term, open-ended work and a more focused short term model where we agree to a fixed time period.
I qualified as a Psychotherapist in 2014 with a masters in Psychotherapy from Brighton University and have continued to develop as a therapist through further training and more intensive personal therapy.
I have a background in youthwork and in working with families with young children at Sure Start children’s centres.