My Approach
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore your personality and identify patterns of behaviour. It is a process that nurtures understanding and helps identify difficulties in ways of relating to others. My approach is to help facilitate that process through a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Together we work to explore troublesome, limiting beliefs and feelings that can cause depression, anxiety and destructive behaviours effecting work, relationships and general enjoyment of life.
I emphasise the importance of the connection between the current day issues and how they can be rooted in the past. Using a psychodynamic approach I examine how early experiences can later lead to repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour that can be troubling. It is often entirely unconscious and as a result very compulsive and perplexing. By bringing awareness as well understanding to these unconscious processes you can slowly gain clarity and control over them. This process creates greater self awareness, an improved sense of self, and mostly importantly lasting change.
At the core of any therapy is the relationship with the therapist, and as a result it is important to feel that you are being supported on your journey through therapy. I offer a warm and empathic space where we work together on your difficulties. It is also not unusual for the difficulties you experience elsewhere in your life to also manifest with your therapist. This is very common and to be expected. It is also an opportunity to bring alive the issues affecting you in therapy and work more directly with them. This is not always easy, but is a tremendously helpful way to work with difficulties first-hand within a supportive environment.
I also draw upon my training in the "developmental Jungian" model. This is a Self psychology that integrates psychoanalytical concepts. In particular, it embraces the idea that problematic thinking and behaviours have often evolved as coping strategies which are purposeful. It is also a forward looking approach, rather than just being reductive. Whilst our history needs to be explored and understood it needn't dictate our future or be the only focus of therapy. The 'developmental Jungian" model believes in a self that repairs, renews and has tremendous capacity for new ways of being to emerge. Therapy then becomes more than just overcoming our difficulties, but also creates fertile ground to sow the seeds of positive growth and potential.
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore your personality and identify patterns of behaviour. It is a process that nurtures understanding and helps identify difficulties in ways of relating to others. My approach is to help facilitate that process through a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Together we work to explore troublesome, limiting beliefs and feelings that can cause depression, anxiety and destructive behaviours effecting work, relationships and general enjoyment of life.
I emphasise the importance of the connection between the current day issues and how they can be rooted in the past. Using a psychodynamic approach I examine how early experiences can later lead to repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour that can be troubling. It is often entirely unconscious and as a result very compulsive and perplexing. By bringing awareness as well understanding to these unconscious processes you can slowly gain clarity and control over them. This process creates greater self awareness, an improved sense of self, and mostly importantly lasting change.
At the core of any therapy is the relationship with the therapist, and as a result it is important to feel that you are being supported on your journey through therapy. I offer a warm and empathic space where we work together on your difficulties. It is also not unusual for the difficulties you experience elsewhere in your life to also manifest with your therapist. This is very common and to be expected. It is also an opportunity to bring alive the issues affecting you in therapy and work more directly with them. This is not always easy, but is a tremendously helpful way to work with difficulties first-hand within a supportive environment.
I also draw upon my training in the "developmental Jungian" model. This is a Self psychology that integrates psychoanalytical concepts. In particular, it embraces the idea that problematic thinking and behaviours have often evolved as coping strategies which are purposeful. It is also a forward looking approach, rather than just being reductive. Whilst our history needs to be explored and understood it needn't dictate our future or be the only focus of therapy. The 'developmental Jungian" model believes in a self that repairs, renews and has tremendous capacity for new ways of being to emerge. Therapy then becomes more than just overcoming our difficulties, but also creates fertile ground to sow the seeds of positive growth and potential.
Sessions are conducted face to face or can be on the couch for long-term open ended therapy.
