Psychotherapy and Counselling in Cambridge

We think about how you experience relationships and the situations life brings. Early life, when many of the mind’s expectations were set, is something I will be thinking about, but treatment is not about why you may be experiencing psychological pain. The thing is getting hold of complex, sometimes unmanageable feelings; noticing patterns and learning by direct emotional experience in the therapy itself. 

Most people find the regularity and focussed attention steadying and satisfying. But naturally you bring the feelings you need to work through, and this can be hard. My job is to manage the environment so it is confidential, accepting and open. This will help you access things you hadn’t known about yourself, helps you know where you are and gives you choices. This is extremely effective for dialling-down pain and stress.

I practice Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a revised approach to psychoanalysis, developed particularly in the light of clinical research with children. Where psychoanalysis can require five sessions a week, in psychodynamic psychotherapy we typically have one session a week, and can do short courses of treatment (psychodynamic counselling) to contain specific problems. More can be read about it on the British Psychoanalytic Council website.