Services
Psychotherapy
I offer long- or short-term psychotherapy to individuals experiencing mood or relationship difficulties.
This includes, but is not limited to:
- uncontrollable sadness,
- anger,
- fear, worry, panic,
- self-consciousness, low self-esteem,
- trouble sleeping,
- eating difficulties, sexual dysfunction,
- family discord,
- social isolation,
- the inability to engage in meaningful activity,
- a struggle to find pleasure in life or,
- the inability to start and develop friendships or other intimate relationships.
Some prospective clients might be experiencing clinical disorders such as anxiety and depression; others might not feel their emotional experiences meet these criteria or can be described in such terms.
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I work with adults:
- young adults/students (18-25-year-olds),
- working-age adults (18+) and,
- elders/adults of retirement age.
Psychotherapy offers a space in which to think with a professional about yourself and your experiences. The aim is to improve your self-understanding and to find new ways of expressing yourself and your emotions when your existing means of doing so might cause unhappiness or negatively affect your relationships. If this is possible, day-to-day symptoms can improve.
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Parent Consultations
I offer four-session (or more, if required) consultations to parents of young adults (18-25-year-old) who might be struggling to understand and support their older adolescent/ young adult child.
This is a complicated phase of one's life and development and can be a difficult time for parents and families. This is particularly the case now when young people often remain in the family home for longer. They may also struggle to gain a coherent sense of themselves and their identity, settle into satisfying vocations, or feel able to form healthy intimate relationships.
My Approach
As an HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist I'm trained up to Doctoral level in the delivery of a range of evidence-based psychological therapies including cognitive behavioural therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy and systemic therapy; as well as mindfulness-based, mentalisation-based, narrative, and dialectical-behavioural approaches.
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Whilst I am able to be flexible in which approach I adopt, broadly I work from an understanding that making sense of one's inner world and emotional life can alter mood, perspective, and alleviate distressing psychological symptoms. This means that we'd try to consider the underlying meaning and history of the things you might find yourself doing and feeling habitually and without reason. Once we have a greater conscious awareness of why we do, say, and feel the things we do, we can exert greater agency over our lives and, with time, potentially come to see our worlds, and particularly the relationships which populate them, differently.
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