What I can help with
Our reasons for coming to therapy are unique and personal. Some information about the kinds of issues I can help with are given below, as well as some information about psychodynamic psychotherapy and its long lasting benefits. I would be happy to answer your questions about how I can support you with your concerns and how we might work together.
Special Interests
In My Practice
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Life & Career Transitions & Identity
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Childhood trauma
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Carers and Young Carers
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Single and Solo Parenting
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High Achievers & Perfectionism
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Attachment
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Loss, bereavement, anticipatory grief
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Work related stress
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Self-esteem & self care
Anxiety
& Stress
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Generalised & social Anxiety
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Stress at work
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Personal stressors
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Navigating difficult circumstances
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Panic attacks
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Burnout
Life Events &
Change
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Managing change & uncertainty
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Caring & parenting responsibilities including adjustment to new roles, identities and responsibilities
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Relationship break downs & separations
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Bereavement & loss
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Illness
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Processing
Trauma
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Emotional, sexual, physical abuse
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Neglect
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Bullying
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Medical traumas
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Loss
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Traumatic and unexpected events
Self Exploration &
Identity
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Self Reflection
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Exploring identity & sense of self
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Self-esteem & confidence
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Limiting beliefs
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Personal growth
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Diversity, Race, Gender, Ability & LGBTQIA+ Issues
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Identity conflict & cultural issues
Relationship
Matters
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Communication issues
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Roles and boundaries
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Attachment issues
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Family dynamics
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Peer relationships
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Intimate relationship and sexuality
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Work/professional relationships
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Parenting / caring responsibilities
Mental Health &
Mood
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Depression & low mood
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Mental health challenges
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Isolation & loneliness
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Feeling stuck / lost
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Loss of meaning and feeling empty
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Anger & mood
Challenges
Coping
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Obsessive thoughts
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Compulsive behaviours and coping strategies
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Body image issues
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Eating issues
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Addictions
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Self Harming Behaviours
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Unexplained chronic health issues
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Bodily responses to stress
Therapy for lasting change
Are you looking to find answers and understand yourself better? Would you like to find greater ease and self-awareness and change, both now, and for the long term? Psychodynamic therapy may be a helpful approach to help you on your journey.
I have extensive clinical training and experience in offering psychodynamic psychotherapy. It is a form of talking therapy which is non directive and is particularly helpful in exploring some of the deeper roots of our feelings, thoughts and experiences, and how we relate to ourselves and others.
In particular, psychodynamic psychotherapy helps by exploring aspects of your experience that may until now have been outside of your immediate awareness. In particular, we might explore how experiences, relationships and events elsewhere in your life may be shaping your response to areas of life where you are currently struggling. Together, in this form of therapy, we aim not only to help you better cope with areas of your life you are currently struggling with but also help you to highlight and understand deeper meanings and emotional or relational patterns that may lie behind them.
By helping you to join the dots, and equipping you with this deep awareness, psychodynamic psychotherapy becomes a powerful, tool for long lasting change. It equips you with long term knowledge and understanding about yourself, and a toolkit of inner resources to help you navigate life's challenges.
In addition to my psychodynamic psychotherapy training, I have additional postgraduate training in outdoor therapeutic work . This allows me to bring knowledge about integrating natural environments and movement into working therapeutically and incorporate its mental health benefits into our work for those who would find this helpful in their therapy.
