Therapy for individuals and couples
Types of therapy. What's the difference?
Counselling vs. Psychotherapy
Counselling can be helpful when addressing specific challenges, such as stress, anxiety, or coping with life changes. Psychotherapy, by contrast, offers a longer-term approach, exploring a broader range of emotional, relational, and personal difficulties.
At the heart of effective therapy is the relationship between client and therapist. In a discreet, confidential, and non-judgemental environment, you are able to express your thoughts and feelings openly, gaining insight and discovering ways to manage fears, anxieties, and recurring patterns. Over time, this can foster lasting improvements in your emotional wellbeing and your relationships—including your relationship with yourself.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is rooted in psychoanalytic principles but focuses on present challenges, aiming to provide meaningful change while addressing deeper underlying patterns. It emphasizes how past experiences and unconscious processes shape current thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
The success of this work relies on the therapeutic relationship we build together. In our sessions, you will be invited to explore significant early relationships and life experiences. Techniques such as free association, interpretation, and transference—where feelings from past relationships are reflected in the therapy—allow profound insight into your current patterns and behaviours.
This approach can lead to deep, enduring change, supporting both personal growth and healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy provides a safe and confidential space for partners to work through relationship challenges and improve their connection. It helps couples navigate conflict, manage intense emotions like hurt or anger, and explore patterns that may be causing tension or distress.
It provides support to develop healthier ways of relating, which can improve emotional intimacy, and build a stronger, more fulfilling relationship.
By examining both the difficulties and their underlying causes, couples can gain insight into each other’s experiences, feelings, and behaviours.
Through the process, partners can approach their relationship with greater empathy, understanding, and curiosity, turning challenges into opportunities for growth and connection, learning to work together, and create lasting, positive change in their partnership.
To explore whether therapy is right for you, or to arrange an initial consultation, please get in touch.
AIT - a unique way of working with trauma.
I use a unique method in my work with clients affected by trauma. As a member of AIT Europe UK, I work to release the negative energy charge that traumatic experiences can leave in the body. This releases stress, distressing emotions, bodily-held trauma and disables negative core beliefs. This therapy tends to be longer term though this varies depending on the client.
What is Trauma?
Going through very stressful, frightening or distressing events is sometimes called trauma. When we talk about emotional or psychological trauma, we might mean:
- situations or events we find traumatic
- how we’re affected by our experiences.
Traumatic events can happen at any age and can cause long-lasting harm. Everyone has a different reaction to trauma, so you might notice any effects quickly, or a long time afterwards.
What is AIT?
AIT enables the therapist and client to:
- Connect childhood experiences with recent trauma
- Link mind and body symptoms of distress and conflict
- Identify and clear whole patterns of trauma
- Explore obstacles to being fully present to oneself and others
- Identify and heal the damage to an individual’s spirituality
AIT was developed in the US by Dr Asha Clinton, an Energy Psychotherapist. AIT is an integrative because it synthesises the following psychotherapeutic modalities:
- Psychodynamic: understanding the unconscious process where our past experiences of early and significant relationships influence how we experience ourselves and others now
- Cognitive-Behavioural : effecting healing by understanding and changing our beliefs and behaviours
- Jungian or Transpersonal : integrating the symbolic and spiritual realm to experience our wholeness and to access our own inner guidance
- Energy Psychology: based on a premise that everything –including our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, memories and trauma – consists of energy. Trauma blocks the flow of energy in the body – AIT helps to release it.
I offer a range of fees, depending on individual circumstances. Whenever possible, I offer some reduced fee sessions.
Please feel free to contact me to discuss your needs and your situation.