About

As we grow up, we learn ways of interacting with others, forming close relationships, and knowing to some degree what we want out of life. Most of the ways that we learned to achieve these goals, as children were in relationships with parents, relatives, friends and teachers. But they no longer always work for us as adults. Often, we do not know what to do as we cannot find new and more efficient ways of acting and relating in our everyday life.
Psychotherapy helps to find better ways, and in the process, we begin to understand how we have become the way we are, and how to change our style.

That is why therapy, practically always, involves finding out our own particular style of relating and attaching to others in intimate relationships; what works for us and what does not. We never stop learning better interpersonal skills so that we can interact with others more effectively.

Learning to regulate our emotions and impulses is the fundamental skill that supports an effective and constructive way of living. It is about how we relate to ourselves. Learning to reflect on what we feel helps us to become who we want to become. Then, we begin to understand how much of our conscious experience is determined unconsciously. The unconscious is where all the skills we use are stored.

The most important relationship then is with oneself. Developing this relationship means that the solutions to the psychological difficulties and problems that life throw up, can be found in oneself. Recent research has demonstrated the value of the adaptive unconscious. It consists of all the knowledge we have acquired in life. Developing a relationship with our unconscious then allows us to tap into its ability to solve our personal problems.
The difficulties we encounter in meeting our needs especially in our relationships make up a large percentage of problems dealt with in counselling and psychotherapy.

A commitment to work on these problems is an effective way to personal growth. It is the most positive outcome of committing to work on oneself. It is essentially spiritual as it involves looking beyond ordinary needs and values for those that lead to personal maturity and wisdom.

Experience

I believe that no matter what a person has been, or been through, they have the capacity to change. How and what to change is where we begin. It is a collaborative process. Clinical knowledge is a great help in knowing where to start. When a person has a psychological problem, it begins with feeling that he or she cannot get what they want, or really be who they want to be, or to achieve what they want to achieve or manage a problem.

Techniques

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Interpersonal Therapy
Emotional Regulation Strategies
Insight or Attachment-based therapies
Relaxation Techniques
Meditation
Mindfulness Techniques

Standard Pricing

Each session is approximately 50 minutes in duration