Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a systematic tool for working with people to explore, understand, and ultimately seek change in areas of emotional or relational dissatisfaction.

Depending on the nature of this dissatisfaction, the origins and the duration, Psychotherapy may be a short-term intervention or a long-term intervention. Each client brings her or his own unique life experience; each therapeutic relationship will also be unique.

My Psychotherapy tools include Transactional Analysis - a humanistic theory of personality and communication - and my strong interest and training in Attachment Theory, Attachment disorders and disruptions.

I also learned much that informs my practice from the Psychodynamic work I was involved in during my time as a teacher at the Cotswold Community, when it was truly a therapeutic community.

In my experience, so many of the ways we deal with the here-and-now are powerfully influenced by deep, unconscious decisions we make about ourselves in our very first relationships.

In the therapeutic relationship between the client and the psychotherapist, there is nothing that cannot be said, thought or felt - in my philosophy of psychotherapy, I strongly believe that thoughts and feelings cannot harm us, no matter how painful - it is the behaviours we engage in, in response to those thoughts and feelings, than can potentially cause harm.

I provide psychotherapy to adults, children and young people, to groups, couples and families, depending on the need.

Where necessary - and particularly in my work with children and young people - I will work in collaboration with other professionals and appropriate interested parties. This will always be with the knowledge of the client.

I work to the codes and ethics of the NGP (Northern Guild for Psychotherapy); the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)