The psychodynamic approach offers an opportunity to explore beneath the everyday relationships and problems that can cause people pain and distress. The basis of the therapy is the continuing support of your therapist, who has completed an advanced training and is experienced in thinking about the unconscious aspects that you may find difficult in emotional, social and family situations.
Often some of the patterns that have been developed within our minds since childhood can produce unhelpful interactions with others, and lead to what seems a lifetime of misunderstandings. One of the primary aims of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is to explore what lies beneath the outer communications that we use in our daily relations, and beneath our attitudes to ourselves. By working with a therapist, it is frequently possible to reveal these patterns and explore how to change them or become aware how they affect us and others.
I have been working for almost 20 years in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, completing my training with an affiliate branch of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation (1993), and becoming accredited with the BACP/UKRC. I have undertaken an advanced training as a Jungian analyst with the British Association of Psychotherapists (2006), and am able to provide therapy for a wide range of personal difficulties. I also offer some short-term work for people who require solution-focussed help with the emotional aspects of everyday issues, such as employees' concerns, bereavement and loss, sickness, family stress.
After an initial assessment, I may recommend a course of sessions, lasting 6 - 10 weeks, or, given the issues discussed with you, it might be appropriate to consider a longer-term arrangement to allow enough space to develop a greater understanding of your thinking about these issues. Sometimes it is appropriate to consider undertaking therapy for 2 - 3 years.
The psychodynamic approach is based upon the work of generations of psychoanalysts and scientists, who have studied how humans develop their mental capacities in relation to others. The Jungian stance is to consider the potential within each person to resolve difficulties through knowledge of themselves. Carl Gustav Jung believed that there must be a balance between a life lived by considering outer reality only and one enhanced by respecting and valuing inner thoughts, feelings and dreaming, which form the basis of our human experiences.
With a trained therapist, one can consider how the interweaving of outer experiences in work, friendship, love and conflict can be discovered to have a deeper root in our early relationships and our ways of understanding the world around us. In this sense, people can find better self-acceptance and more fulfilled relationships with those close to them, and can also feel more positive about their direction in life.Qualifications & Training
1966 MA (Edinburgh) in languages, history, economics.
1967 Post-graduate certificate in education (London).
1993 Diploma in psychodynamic counselling (WPF).
1993 Accredited member of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
2006 Qualified member of British Association of Psychotherapists (Jungian Section) & and registrant of British Psychoanalytic Council.Experience
I worked in a WPF-affiliated counselling centre between 1989 - 93.
Since 1993, I have been employed as a contracted counsellor for agencies (EAPs) offering counselling help to people at work.
I have been in private practice providing counselling, and for several years, psychotherapy to adult individuals.Fees
Assessment and therapy sessions are negotiated on inquiry.
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