Individual Psychotherapy
I offer individual psychodynamic psychotherapy, group analytic psychotherapy and supervision, in person and online. Individual psychotherapy gives you the opportunity to explore difficult experiences and painful feelings associated with them, in a confidential and safe space, just for yourself.
Working psychodynamically will allow you to explore your lived experiences, unprocessed emotions and behavioural patterns, throwing light on issues you are experiencing in the present, such as anxiety, loneliness and depression. It offers the chance to consider and reflect on how particular events have played a part in your development and how they still affect you; it helps you process them with another person, in the room and to an extent come to terms with what happened, in order to be able to move forward in the present, with family and friends, with work and study and generally to get pleasure in everyday things.
Often individual psychotherapy is a first step towards a better understanding of oneself and one’s own past; it is the beginning of a healing process and a coming to terms. Individual psychotherapy addresses mental health issues like depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, personality difficulties and trauma. Sometimes people decide to take their journey of self – discovery into group psychotherapy, feeling they have had enough time for individual self-exploration and want to understand better their relationship with others, in the world.
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Working psychodynamically will allow you to explore your lived experiences, unprocessed emotions and behavioural patterns, throwing light on issues you are experiencing in the present, such as anxiety, loneliness and depression. It offers the chance to consider and reflect on how particular events have played a part in your development and how they still affect you; it helps you process them with another person, in the room and to an extent come to terms with what happened, in order to be able to move forward in the present, with family and friends, with work and study and generally to get pleasure in everyday things.
Often individual psychotherapy is a first step towards a better understanding of oneself and one’s own past; it is the beginning of a healing process and a coming to terms. Individual psychotherapy addresses mental health issues like depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, personality difficulties and trauma. Sometimes people decide to take their journey of self – discovery into group psychotherapy, feeling they have had enough time for individual self-exploration and want to understand better their relationship with others, in the world.
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Group Psychotherapy
Group analysis also gives you the chance to explore difficult experiences and painful feelings within a safe and confidential group space, with others who may have similar or related difficulties, paying particular attention to problematic relational patterns, both there and then and in the here and now. The group offers the chance to explore these relational difficulties, in order to be able to improve the way that you relate to others and others to you; to lead less pain-wrought lives and to get on with the things in life that you value and enjoy.
Group members come with a range of presenting difficulties including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, childhood trauma, personality difficulties.
The benefit of this form of therapy is that it strengthens and enriches the therapeutic experience for all the individuals in the group. Each member gains from listening to and being heard by others in a safe and supportive environment. Everyone is encouraged to speak about their current difficulties and how these may connect with past experiences and potentially re-played in the group to be worked through, understood and changed.
A group offers the opportunity to be with peers talking honesty to each other and learning how to be together in a group, socially. It may feel exposing to start with, but over time people learn to build relationships and develop trust. This is an opportunity to understand oneself better and how you are experienced by others. This allows for personal growth. Over time a deepening exploration, like a ‘working through’ of not only personal issues but also relational aspects of oneself takes place. Issues and difficulties that members bring will resonate with others allowing for a sense of not being alone, being understood by another. Different perspectives will also come to the fore and different ways to think about one’s own problems will be offered by others, ways that perhaps had not been thought about before. A challenge may be a welcome change to a sense of sameness and things being stuck.
A group goes through a process of loss and grieving when members leave and a range of feelings when someone new starts, as well as a sense of renewal. Group therapy does engender in its members a sense of belonging, purpose, hope, altruism and meaning (Yalom, 2020) as well as reducing symptoms of mental health difficulties.
As well as addressing complex, personal dynamics within oneself and one’s own circle of relationships, what a group wishes to do, is to help its members to be part of a complex psycho-social-educational experience which is both personal and social, in order to live in a more hopeful, less despairing world.
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Group members come with a range of presenting difficulties including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, childhood trauma, personality difficulties.
The benefit of this form of therapy is that it strengthens and enriches the therapeutic experience for all the individuals in the group. Each member gains from listening to and being heard by others in a safe and supportive environment. Everyone is encouraged to speak about their current difficulties and how these may connect with past experiences and potentially re-played in the group to be worked through, understood and changed.
A group offers the opportunity to be with peers talking honesty to each other and learning how to be together in a group, socially. It may feel exposing to start with, but over time people learn to build relationships and develop trust. This is an opportunity to understand oneself better and how you are experienced by others. This allows for personal growth. Over time a deepening exploration, like a ‘working through’ of not only personal issues but also relational aspects of oneself takes place. Issues and difficulties that members bring will resonate with others allowing for a sense of not being alone, being understood by another. Different perspectives will also come to the fore and different ways to think about one’s own problems will be offered by others, ways that perhaps had not been thought about before. A challenge may be a welcome change to a sense of sameness and things being stuck.
A group goes through a process of loss and grieving when members leave and a range of feelings when someone new starts, as well as a sense of renewal. Group therapy does engender in its members a sense of belonging, purpose, hope, altruism and meaning (Yalom, 2020) as well as reducing symptoms of mental health difficulties.
As well as addressing complex, personal dynamics within oneself and one’s own circle of relationships, what a group wishes to do, is to help its members to be part of a complex psycho-social-educational experience which is both personal and social, in order to live in a more hopeful, less despairing world.
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Supervision
Supervision is the process that allows for reflection on one’s own work using the supervisor’s perspective – and other supervisees if in a group - on the clinical work, away from the consulting room. Supervision is a sort of “reverie” process, stepping out and alongside, observing the interaction between supervisee and client, providing “the third eye” and noticing amongst others, parallel processes that are taking place. The purpose ultimately is to be able to be more effective in helping your clients to grow and develop. This can be done individually or in a group. In Group supervision, the group itself becomes the medium for supervision and an ally in the work. This setting creates the possibility of free - floating attention and free association by group members and this is used as additional insight and for thinking through the conscious and unconscious dynamics of the therapeutic work, countertransference and parallel processes.
In supervision, a balance needs to be reached between the pursuit of deeper understanding and the maintenance of sufficient self-esteem in the participants and the supervisor’s contribution to this balanced process is crucial. Hopefully through this considered process, the group supervision can promote the therapist’s sense of belonging and enhance the consolidation of his or her professional identity.
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In supervision, a balance needs to be reached between the pursuit of deeper understanding and the maintenance of sufficient self-esteem in the participants and the supervisor’s contribution to this balanced process is crucial. Hopefully through this considered process, the group supervision can promote the therapist’s sense of belonging and enhance the consolidation of his or her professional identity.
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