ABOUT OUR SERVICES

Individual Therapy

We want to reduce unnecessary suffering, promote long-term change, and help you make sense of your life. Our vision is to “Increase understanding to increase self-compassion”. In other words, we believe it’s important to have self-compassion for past experiences, actions, and behaviours rather than judging yourself for them.  

We aim to build a trusting, empathetic, and collaborative relationship, and are dedicated to creating a safe space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours without judgment. 

We're known for our warm, down-to-earth approach and skill in working with complex issues. As we engage with you, we:

• Focus our full attention, keeping notes to a minimum 

• Identify core issues and unhelpful patterns

• Invite you to build awareness of feelings and responses

• Provide honest reflections with care and without judgment 

• Collaborate to develop your capabilities and agency

Our goal is not just to treat symptoms but to help you understand yourself more fully, build healthier ways of relating, and expand your potential to thrive. 

Treatments include: Psychoanlaytic Psychotherapy, CBT, Mentalization Based Therapy, DBT, EMDR and ACT.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy provides a supportive environment where partners can explore issues affecting their relationship. It focuses on improving communication, resolving conflicts, and fostering a deeper understanding between partners.

How can Couples Therapy Help?

Couples therapy offers a structured approach to address relationship challenges and achieve positive outcomes:

• Improving Communication: Learn effective communication skills to express needs, listen actively, and understand each other better.

• Resolving Conflicts: Identify underlying issues and learn constructive ways to manage conflicts and disagreements.

• Rebuilding Trust: Work through breaches of trust and rebuild a foundation of security and understanding.

• Navigate Life Transitions: Support each other through major life changes and adjust to new roles and responsibilities.

• Address Intimacy Issues: Explore barriers to intimacy and strengthen emotional and physical connection.

• Build Resilience: Develop strategies to overcome challenges and grow stronger as a couple.

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Taking up psychoanalytic Psychotherapy can be a transformative decision for anyone seeking to deeply understand themselves, resolve emotional struggles, and improve their mental well-being. An analysis is a more intense therapy usually 3-5 sessions a week over a number or years.

Psychoanalysis helps with:

• Problems with Relationships

• Persistent Dissatisfaction with life

• Persistent Anxiety

• Persistent Depression

• Eating Disorder Problems

• Addiction Problems

Psychoanalysis helps……

Uncover Unconscious Patterns

Many of our behaviours, emotions, and struggles are shaped by unconscious forces we may not fully understand. Psychoanalysis helps reveal these hidden patterns—whether they stem from early childhood experiences or repressed memories—allowing you to confront and resolve them.

Heal from Past Trauma

Psychoanalysis provides a safe space to explore past wounds, unresolved conflicts, or traumatic experiences. By revisiting and processing these memories, you can heal emotionally and move forward without the weight of past pain affecting your present life.

Break Free from Repetitive Cycles

Are you stuck in recurring emotional or behavioural patterns, like unhealthy relationships or self-sabotage? Psychoanalysis helps identify the root causes of these cycles, enabling you to break free and create healthier, more fulfilling life choices.

Gain a Deeper Understanding of Yourself

Psychoanalysis isn't just about fixing problems, it's about personal growth. It allows you to discover your true desires, fears, and motivations, leading to greater self-awareness, authenticity, and clarity in your life decisions.

Improve Relationships

By understanding your unconscious influences, you can improve how you relate to others. Psychoanalysis helps you recognize unresolved conflicts that might be affecting your relationships, allowing for more empathy, communication, and intimacy with loved ones.

Address Chronic Mental Health Struggles

For those dealing with long-term issues like depression, anxiety, or self-esteem problems, psychoanalysis can help get to the root cause of these struggles. It's particularly helpful for individuals seeking deep, long-lasting relief rather than temporary solutions.

Gain Emotional Resilience

Through psychoanalysis, you'll develop tools to better manage your emotions and reactions. Understanding the deeper layers of your psyche helps you build emotional resilience, cope with stress, and respond more healthily to challenges in life.

Find Meaning and Purpose

Psychoanalysis can help you explore existential questions and the deeper meaning of your life. If you're feeling lost, unfulfilled, or uncertain about your direction, psychoanalysis can guide you in finding greater purpose and a deeper connection to yourself.

In short, psychoanalysis offers a profound way to understand and heal your mind. Whether you're looking to resolve specific issues or embark on a journey of self-discovery, it provides lasting insights and personal growth.

Peer Group Supervision from a Psychoanalytic perspective

Group supervision with peers can be very informative especially when for more complex presentations.

Group sessions are offered on the first Saturday morning of every month from 9 to 10.30 am online.