I see patients for individual long-term or brief time-limited psychodynamic therapy. I also run private psychotherapy groups. Your therapy begins with an initial individual assessment session where I can get to know you, you can decide whether I am the right therapist for you, and we can discuss which kind of therapy would suit you best.
Individual Therapy
The patients I see individually may suffer from a variety of different problems such as:
- recurring difficulties with relationships
- stress
- sexual abuse or trauma in childhood
- domestic abuse
- trauma
- depression
- anxiety
- problems with creativity or writer’s block
Psychotherapy Groups
If you are suffering from depression, anxiety, relationship problems, stress at work, family issues or you want the opportunity to develop your interpersonal skills, you may want to consider joining a group. Most psychological suffering is rooted in relationship problems, past and present. This is why a therapy group can be an ideal safe, nurturing and confidential setting to enable you to reflect on your experiences and gain a fresh understanding of yourself, your relationship patterns and develop more effective ways of managing your life.
The group has a maximum of 8 members and meets weekly for 90 minute sessions. at my private practice in Brighton, Kemp Town. The work of the group is confidential. This is important because a therapy group is an intimate place where members explore difficult issues in both their past and present life as well as their here and now relationships in the group itself. These here and now relationships in the group are important because we learn most about ourselves from the thoughts and feelings experienced during our interaction with others. This is why group therapy has proved to be one of the most effective forms of therapy for personal growth and real change. Sadly many people are afraid of groups and assume that individual therapy is better. In my experience this is far from true, a therapy group can be just as safe and nurturing as individual therapy.
If you think you might like to join a group, or you need help but you are not sure about group therapy, please contact me for more information, or to arrange for an initial one to one session to talk things through.
Kinds of Groups
Currently I run 3 kinds of groups:
- Long-term mixed group for men and women
- Long-term women’s group
- 12 week group for women who want to understand their destructive and self destructive patterns in love relationships, how these patterns may have been influenced by their early life experiences and what it means to change.