Psychotherapy
Individual talk therapy is a one-to-one confidential and non-judgemental space where you can work through any challenges you are facing currently, or have experienced in the past.
Psychotherapy is a broad umbrella and has various influences depending on each therapist’s training and interests. My work is based on an eclectic mix of the following:
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic
- Attachment based theories
- Self Psychology
- Systems based theories – these view our experiences as nested within wider cultural and generational social structures than all of us exit within and contribute to.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Couples Therapy
This is a confidential space where couples can learn to understand their particular relational dynamics, and how each of their histories might be contributing to each of their experiences within the relationship.
Specific topics we will cover are:
- Communication – how each of you are talking/not talking to each other will have a lasting impact on each of you. This includes communication differences each of you has inherited from your respective families of origin.
- Conflict – how to navigate conflict in healthy and productive ways.
- Sexual difficulties, concerns and experiences in your couple. We will work with how each of you experience intimacy and sex, and how you can improve this area of your relationship if this is a problem for you.
- Parenting and how differences here can be worked with.
Family Therapy
Family therapy is a systems based approach to understanding how behaviours and relationships in the family are being experienced. We understand that families often have unspoken ‘rules’ about how things work, and what each member may and may not do within the system. My understanding is that sometimes a particular family member is given the ‘job’ of holding or expressing a particular difficulty that the family system struggles with.
Family therapy can be a useful way to understand and support your family system in better ways.
Please note that I will always work with parents alone before seeing a family unit together.
What you can expect during each session:
- Sessions are 50 minutes long, usually held at the same time on a weekly basis.
- I usually ask clients to commit to three assessment sessions before we contract around how we will best work together going forward.
- The time is yours to discuss and work through whatever feels important to you at this time.
