How I work

I will listen to you

The psychodynamic approach holds with the idea that for all of us, our present state of mind is influenced by unconscious memories of the past.

When something is very difficult or painful we can find ourselves trying to ignore it.  Most of the time we know when we are doing this, but it is likely that some experiences will have been too much for us and unknowingly pushed away.  In either case our present wellbeing will have been impacted as well as our responses to others. 

Indeed, early negative experiences can lead to unhelpful patterns of behaviour which might cause our work, family life and relationships to become unsatisfactory, or to keep going wrong in familiar and distressing ways.

I am therefore concerned with listening to you, and trying to help you become aware of, and understand, how past experiences are affecting your life now, and the way you regard yourself. 

It is not unusual to be carrying difficult feelings and thoughts, and it is also not unusual to believe they must not be talked about, BUT it is in the process of talking and being listened to that we can arrive at a different perspective, we can cause a shift in our attitude and we can discover that we have choices. We can become unstuck.