Change and growth through exploration and understanding

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a therapeutic process which aims to help people understand and resolve their difficulties by increasing awareness of their underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs (about the world and about themselves) and the way this influences past and present relationships. In exploring these important questions, my work draws on theories of human development and psychoanalysis.

A wide range of concerns brings people to psychotherapy.  Sometimes these are specific concerns like particular anxieties, obsessional behaviour, psychosomatic conditions or eating disorders. Often it is more general pervasive, underlying feelings of depression or anxiety, worries about work and difficulties in making or sustaining satisfactory relationships which lead to the decision to seek help. Sometimes it is a crisis which brings someone to psychotherapy and sometimes it is difficulties which have impacted life for some considerable time. .