Our experience of emotions and relating affect our capacity to adapt to many difficult stages in life. This can include responding to changing or difficult relationships with family, friends, or partners, impacts from stressful or traumatic experiences, or other life stages such as parenting, pregnancy, workplace stress and career performance, menopause, illness, and grief. Our coping responses to these situations not only impact ourselves but also those around us. 

It may be a time of crisis or a recognition of long-standing difficult feelings that bring you to therapy. This presents an opportunity to be understood and supported while making sense of your feelings and experiences and working towards your changes or goals.

My therapy style is guided by attachment theory which explains how we develop relational bonds and experience and express emotions. These experiences develop early in life and evolve across the lifespan. 

Evidence-based therapies provide an opportunity to explore these patterns of relating, by increasing our understanding of our mental states and those of others. Depending upon your needs and individual goals, Psychodynamic therapy can be used in the short to medium term combined with pragmatic and skills-focused therapies and techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology. By working collaboratively in therapy, I aim to help people create lasting and meaningful changes in their responses to emotions, relating, health, and adaptation to stress and change.

I can assist people who experience; 

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Chronic stress and health problems

• Grief

• Traumatic or stressful life events

• Relationship difficulties

• Perinatal and menopausal difficulties 

• Parenting challenges 

• Family difficulties

• Workplace issues and performance