Psychotherapy

I work with individual clients on either a short-term counselling basis or a longer term, more psychotherapeutic approach.

If you have recently experienced a specific difficulty you feel unable to deal with, such as anxiety or depression, counselling can provide an opportunity to share your worries, gain insight and find a way forward. Alternatively, you may feel a more general dissatisfaction with aspects of your life or may be aware that you have often found it difficult to deal with certain situations. In this case, you may find psychotherapy or psychosexual therapy particularly helpful. Examples of difficulties that may bring people to counselling or psychotherapy can include:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Personal relationships (also see the Couples' Page)

• Relationship problems with family, friends or work colleagues

• Sexual difficulties

• Difficulty in communicating with others/assertiveness

• Bereavement

• Stress-related problems

• Depression

• Emotional crisis

• General dissatisfaction with lifestyle

• Difficulty in finding meaning/aims in life

I use an integrative humanistic approach, which means that I employ knowledge and experience of a range of counselling theories with my clients, drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existentialist Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy and Transactional Analysis, and Psychoanalysis.