What is Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is a talking treatment which explores the underlying causes of your difficulties in order to bring about significant and lasting change.

It works with your conscious and unconscious feelings and thoughts, fears and wishes.

I provide a supportive and confidential space where you will not be judged, where you can go at your own pace and talk openly about yourself and your life.

If you feel unhappy or overwhelmed, psychotherapy can help resolve your difficulties

You may have been struggling with confusion and conflict for a long time.

You may be in a situation causing you distress, or struggling in your relationships.

You may have questions about who you are and how you behave.

As a psychotherapist, I can help by

Providing a safe place for you to discuss your problems openly and in depth.

Encouraging you to express what you genuinely think and feel.

Helping you to identify emotions and thoughts which are out of reach and unconscious.

Enabling you to fully understand the underlying causes of your distress.

The process may involve

Thinking about the effects of the environment in which you grew up, your childhood and adolescent experiences.

Carefully considering how your adult life has unfolded.

Looking at how you relate to your therapist, as this may have links to other relationships.