Training and Qualifications:
Full-
Qualifications are:
Senior Member Qualified 1986
British Association of Psychotherapists
Member British Psychoanalytic Association
(a constituent of the BAP)
Member Qualified 2004
British Psychoanalytical Society
Member
International Psychoanalytical Association
What is Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is based on the idea that what we experience as a conscious difficulty may be a solution to an unconscious problem. These unconscious problems can make us behave against our own best interests, and even make us distressed or ill. Unhelpful unconscious patterns are usually derived from early infant and childhood relationships that may be activated by later trauma or stress. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides a regular time and place in which these patterns can be explored and worked through via the relationship that evolves between the client and the therapist. The client is free to direct unresolved feelings at the therapist so that they may be understood and worked through in safety.
In the 50 minute psychotherapy sessions the client is encouraged to voice and reflect on whatever is uppermost in his/her mind. Feelings, thoughts, wishes, fears, memories and dreams can be explored within the relationship between the therapist and client. Psychotherapy can gradually bring about a degree of self understanding, particularly of how past experiences can affect current behaviour, and this enables the patient/client to find more appropriate ways of being, and of coping with difficulties.
