What will you do as my therapist?

  • provide a safe space and time to access your own inner wisdom

  • help you discover your innate capacity for healing

  • support you in exploring your present situation and any changes you might want to make

  • work with you to find out how I can best help you

  • go at your pace and follow your lead

  • nurture your curiosity in yourself 

  • model a non-judgemental and empathic stance so you feel increasingly able to look at the difficult and shameful stuff 

What are signs of progress?

  • Greater attachment security / sense of safety in relationship

  • More integrated & coherent experience of self & others

  • Increased sense of personal agency

  • More realistic & reliable self-esteem

  • Greater resilience & improved affect regulation

  • Greater capacity for both self reflection & understanding of others’ experience

  • Increased comfort in functioning both independently & interdependently

  • More robust sense of vitality & aliveness

  • Enhanced capacity for acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude

  • Movement towards more mature & flexible defences

Adapted from Nancy Williams, Psychoanalytic Supervision

What does therapy help with?

Just a few of the things therapy helps with:

  • learning to trust yourself

  • developing self-compassion

  • beginning to identify, communicate and hold healthy boundaries

  • supporting you to heal yourself

  • recognising what you can change and what you may need to accept

  • developing resilience to all life can throw at you

  • dismantling outdated beliefs about yourself 

  • recognising relationship dynamics and your part in sustaining them

  • dropping down into who you really are beneath your persona