By ‘psychotherapy’, I mean a relationship characterised by attempts at: truthfulness, apt trust, straightforwardness, accountability, understanding, vulnerability, care-taking, assertiveness, respect, self-knowledge, courage, dignity, acceptance, challenge, honesty, and forgiveness. Its aim is inner change, growth, and relief from those painful repeated experiences stemming from within rather than only from life circumstance. My approach is ‘psychodynamic’ – i.e. I’ll at least sometimes focus on the ways in which you unconsciously tend to get in your own way in your relationships with yourself, with me, and with the other people in your life. This involves helping you attend to, bear with, understand, and own – rather than deflect from – your anxieties.
Clinical supervision is offered for those interested in deepening their therapeutic practice through reading the transference and countertransference, bringing the whole self to the therapeutic relationship, developing clarity and rigour, and drawing on the true moral and emotional potentiality of a therapeutic relationship. By profession I’m a chartered Clinical Psychologist registered by the British Psychological Society (no. 147832) and regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council (no. PYL23937).