Relational Therapy

You might think your situation cannot be understood, or you are unsure about what psychotherapy offers. Psychotherapy is often referred to as an umbrella for many types of approaches.

My training is primarily based in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which is a form of talking therapy which explores how the unconscious mind influences your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Our earlier experiences influence our relationships in ways that may not be immediately apparent. The ways in which we develop skills for building relationships, establishing trust, relying on others, expressing our needs, and resolving conflicts are shaped by early attachments. We can find ourselves being drawn into repetitive patterns and familiar dynamics or responding in ways that no longer serve us well.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic psychotherapy, derived from psychoanalysis, targets root causes for lasting change. It treats issues like anxiety, depression, and addictions by emphasising the client-therapist relationship and patterns in past and present connections. Therapy supports building healthy relationships, addressing factors linked to mood instability, social anxiety, addiction, and trauma, and helps individuals understand how relationships and self-perceptions impact daily life.

I am particularly interested in an attachment-based therapy approach. Attachment therapy examines how childhood experiences shape adult attachment patterns and the ability to form meaningful relationships. We are born into connection, shaped by it, and sometimes wounded by it.

Working Together

Working together can create a better understanding of how your earliest, often unconscious bonds influence your self-image, relationships, and worldview. Working in this way can help you to address some of the issues from your childhood that still impact your ability to form meaningful relationships with others and create a more meaningful understanding of the reasons behind emotional distress and relationship difficulties. To help you become more aware of past experiences and patterns of behaviour that get in the way of experiencing healthier relationships. One of the main outcomes is to help you learn more about who you are and why you act the way you do, and improve connections with others.

Working with Couples

Couples therapy helps address relationship conflicts and improve communication. It is a talking therapy aimed at resolving issues that can arise in intimate relationships, when working through problems alone has not helped. It focuses on understanding how individuals relate to others and how these patterns affect emotional well-being, particularly for those facing relationship challenges. The goal of couples therapy is to help you reconnect and better understand external factors, such as family dynamics and lifestyle, that affect your relationship.

The focus is on couples facing relationship challenges and who recognise the value of therapeutic input to improve their experience of their relationship.