My Philosophy of Counselling
Working psychodynamically...
what does this mean?
Psychodynamic counselling is a form of therapy through which the therapist works with a client within a safe and protected environment to help them understand the deeper, psychological drivers of their present day behavioural patterns or emotional problems. The client and therapist relationship is paramount to the depth of our work via trust, connection and the client feeling safe.
These drivers can include the way an individual was brought up within their family, traumas occurring at important early developmental stages of life, or more recent psychological wounds such as the loss of a loved one, losing one's job or relationship breakdowns.
Counselling can help you to understand your feelings and what's making you feel sad, confused or angry in life. Perhaps you are feeling anxious, depressed, or simply disconnected from family, friends or life, then psychodynamic counselling offers a path to discover ways of coping better and ultimately overcoming these often debilitating feelings.
How can counselling help you?
The aim of counselling
My aim is to work with you so that you become more self-aware and thus able to improve your understanding of how the past is influencing your current behaviour. Together we will explore the unresolved and often unconscious issues that are inhibiting your ability to lead a happy and fulfilled life today and may be contributing to destructive behaviours such as drug and alcohol abuse or an inability to control anger.
Within the therapeutic relationship we will therefore explore the full range of your emotions, thoughts, past experiences and beliefs, with the view to developing a holistic picture of the drivers of your present emotional state. Only once we really understand the underlying source of your unwanted feelings or behaviours can we find ways to change them.
