Personal Profile

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I'm a psychotherapist with the experience and skills to help individuals navigate anxiety, depression and other significant challenges on their way to health and happiness. My approach integrates various therapeutic modalities to support clients on their journey toward well-being.

About Me

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Introduction

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When we encounter difficult or stressful situations we develop coping mechanisms that help us survive, especially during childhood when we are fairly helpless. These coping mechanisms serve us well until...well, until they don't anymore. But, as creatures of habit, these coping mechanisms don't just go away. We continue to use them over and over, despite better reactions and more productive coping mechanisms now being available to us: Perhaps we rehash the same argument with our partners for the thousandth time. Perhaps we find ourselves leaving toxic working environments more often that seems normal. Perhaps we stay in friendships or relationships that cost us more than they give to us. This can create anxiety, depression, confusion, and anger.

Having someone to explore your current needs and options with is sometimes all it takes to form new and improved neural pathways.

You are likely looking at this because there is something in your life that you are unhappy with. It could be a one-off event, or it could be so many things that you can't even put your finger on it, or somewhere in between. You have decided that you don't want to feel this way anymore.

We can explore where your feelings are coming from. Are they really in response to your current situation, or are they carrying over from the past? Why do they seem so unbearable? Is there a way to make it stop? And we can explore what needs to change in order to feel what you want to feel instead.

With a psychotherapist, some of the work will be in the unconscious. What are your unconscious expectations about your relationships? Which thoughts or feelings about yourself are actually yours and which did you learn from your parents or friends? Who would you be if you could separate from everything your family, culture, religion, and world has dictated for you? Without pressure, overt or subtle, what would make you happy? And why would it make you happy?

Each client has their own needs, their way of looking at their lives and their individual ways of growing. My aim is to help clients along their unique path to self-actualisation and happiness.  In order to facilitate this, our therapy room is a confidential, warm and non-judgemental environment.

I am experienced in working with people struggling with depression, anxiety, identity, stress, bereavement, relationship issues and big life-changes.

Training

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BSc in Psychology with Counselling Skills 

Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling & Therapy

Years Practicing

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3   Years

Membership Bodies

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BACP and BPS

Areas of Expertise

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Main Therapeutic Approach

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• Psychodynamic

Working Preferences

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Pricing & Working Hours

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