Psychodynamic psychotherapy offers a space to think about your inner world and your experience of yourself and others.

Often, the reasons we find ourselves struggling are not immediately clear. We may notice patterns that repeat in relationships, feelings that feel overwhelming or out of reach, or a sense that something is not quite right, even if it is difficult to put into words. In therapy, these experiences can be explored at a pace that allows meaning to emerge over time.

Rather than offering advice or solutions, psychotherapy is a collaborative process of thinking together. By paying attention to thoughts, feelings, memories, and the therapeutic relationship itself, aspects of experience that may have remained outside awareness can begin to take shape. This can open the possibility for change.

The work usually begins with one or more initial consultations. These meetings provide an opportunity to think about what brings you to therapy, and to begin to get a sense of what it might be like to work together.

Sessions take place regularly and last 50 minutes.

I offer both long-term and brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in a safe and confidential consulting room in London. Sessions are primarily in person, with the option of online work where appropriate.

People come to therapy for many different reasons. Sometimes these are clearly defined, and at other times they are more difficult to articulate.

You might recognise something of yourself in the following:

• A sense of feeling stuck, as though certain patterns keep repeating 
• Difficulties in relationships that feel familiar but hard to change 
• Feeling overwhelmed by emotions, or cut off from them altogether 
• A persistent sense of self-doubt, shame, or inner criticism 
• Experiences of loss or absence that continue to have an emotional impact 
• Uncertainty about who you are, or what you want 
• Difficulties with closeness, dependency, or trusting others 
• Feeling alone, even when surrounded by others 
• Reactions or behaviours that feel out of proportion or difficult to understand 
• A sense that something is not quite right, even if it is hard to say why 

You do not need to arrive with a clearly defined problem. Often, it is enough to feel that something in your experience would benefit from being thought about.