PgDip, MBAPC, BPC (accred)
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist based near Marlborough in Wiltshire, working with adults both in person and online.
My Approach
This form of therapy can help if you have been coping with difficult, complicated feelings and behaviours and you need someone to talk to who will really listen to you. It might be that you’ve been feeling low for some time, or are overwhelmed with anxiety or stress. Sometimes something intangible just doesn’t feel right and you’re not able to think clearly. You might feel stuck with difficult thoughts that are hard to shift. Or perhaps you had a traumatic experience recently or a long time ago and you need help processing what happened.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of psychoanalytic therapy. The aim is to find the heart of your discomfort, which can emerge slowly and sometimes unexpectedly over time. In regular, weekly sessions we think carefully together about your life, your thoughts and emotions, identifying patterns and feelings that you may not have been aware of. It can lead to an understanding of how events and relationships in your past might be affecting you in the here and now. It isn’t always easy; sometimes we face things that are hard to look at.
I provide a reliable, confidential space in which we can safely explore what’s on your mind. I invite you to talk freely about anything that comes to your mind and we see where that takes us. This talking therapy isn’t rushed; it can be open-ended if you choose. I won’t offer advice or coping mechanisms, which may feel uncomfortable at first; instead we try to work through your feelings and process them. I listen carefully to you, holding psychoanalytic theory in mind in order to try to find our way towards understanding without judgement. This in turn can lead to a deeper, long-term change; a chance to understand yourself better which can help foster a feeling of inner strength, acceptance and a sense of peace over time.
There is a strong and growing evidence base which extols the long-term improvements in mental health that psychodynamic therapy can achieve, often continuing beyond the end of the course of therapy.
About me
I trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the highly regarded and internationally renowned Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust on a British Pyschoanalytic Council accredited five year course, which included four years of clinical work within the NHS. In my training I specialised in intercultural psychotherapy.
I have experience working in the NHS, in military settings and in the charity sector. I specialise in one-to-one, long-term psychotherapy with adults. I am a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and the British Psychoanalytic Council and I adhere to their code of standards and ethics. I am also a registered member of the British Association for Psychotherapists and Counsellors, MBACP.