Therapy can help you in different ways and can ultimately lead to positive and lasting change.

You may have some issues you’d like to address, you may feel unhappy or unsatisfied in life, or you may want to understand more about yourself.  Therapy can help you to explore and untangle your difficulties, to understand where they come from, to understand yourself better in relation to the world and others, and to process your thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It can help you to develop ways of dealing with your difficulties.

Several weeks or months of therapy can help you to gain insight into a particular issue, whilst more deep-seated difficulties can often need much more work.  Sessions last for 50 minutes and would normally be at the same time each week. I would encourage you to speak about whatever you would like, even if it seems irrelevant.  I also work with dreams, which can be a useful tool for understanding our unconscious.

My core approach is psychodynamic, which understands that many of the ways we think, feel, and act can be influenced by our earlier life experiences, relationships, and the unconscious. By considering these things within a safe and containing space, and in the context of a trusting and empathetic relationship, we can come to understand ourselves, our relationships, and our thought and behaviour patterns better.  

Over time this can lead to change, helping us to become more self aware and integrated people, more grounded, and better able to face and negotiate life’s challenges.  Based on the ideas of psychoanalysis, together with modern research and practice, this approach also values the relationship between therapist and client, and works with your current issues as well as the past.

This approach is research validated and evidence based, and has been shown to be effective in helping with a range of issues. 

Whilst the psychodynamic approach is central to how I work, I believe that clients are individuals and that it's important to tailor our approach to you and to your individual circumstances. I'm also influenced by ideas and techniques from other schools of therapy, and especially Jungian analysis, existential psychotherapy, transactional analysis, solution-focused brief therapy, and relational psychotherapy.